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Browse our collection of comprehension strategy worksheets. Each worksheet focuses on a specific comprehension strategy. Comprehension strategies allow readers to make meaning from texts. Comprehension strategies include summarising, compare and contrast, visualising, cause and effect, inferring, fact and opinion, and more. Use these focus worksheets to introduce a new strategy, or to target a strategy that needs some further development.

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Beach Trip: Cause & Effect Match

Read a short passage about a trip to the beach. Cut and paste to show the cause and effect relationships.

Beach Trip: Cause & Effect

Read a short passage about a trip to the beach. Show the cause and effect relationships in the table.

Pat’s Birthday Trip: Cause & Effect Match

Read a short passage about Pat’s birthday. Cut and paste to show the cause and effect relationships.

Pat’s Birthday: Cause & Effect

Read a short passage about Pat’s birthday. Cut and paste to show the cause and effect relationships.

What & Why: Cause & Effect Organiser

Show ‘what happened’ and ‘why it happened’ with this graphic organiser.

Simple Cause & Effect Organiser

Show cause and effect relationships using this graphic organiser.

Cause & Effect Find (2)

Read the sentences and find the cause and the effect.

Cause & Effect Find (1)

Read the sentences and find the cause and the effect.

Cause or Effect?

Read the sentences and work out whether the cause or the effect has been underlined.

Cause & Effect Picture Match (2)

Cut and paste the pictures to show cause and effect relationships.

Cause & Effect Picture Match (1)

Cut and paste the pictures to show cause and effect relationships.

Cause & Effect Poster

A poster explaining cause and effect.