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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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Inferring Circle Set 1

A set of 4 inferring circles. Follow the steps to analyse each image.

Industrial Revolution Impacts Cause & Effect

Find the cause and effect events in the text explaining the impacts of the Industrial Revolution.

Industrial Revolution Cause & Effect

Find the cause and effect events in the text explaining the Industrial Revolution.

Industrial Revolution Cause & Effect Chain

Read about the Industrial Revolution and find cause and effect events to complete the cause and effect chain.

Life in England Cause & Effect Task: Write

Order the events in the cause and effect chain that caused the First Fleet to set sail.

Life in England Cause & Effect Task: Draw

Read the chain of events that led to the First Fleet setting sail. Draw a picture to match each event.

Reading Task Cards

Use before, during and after reading to help build comprehension skills. Laminate for a long-lasting resource.

5 Senses Organiser

This graphic organiser can be used for planning writing or analysing text.

Identifying 5 Senses (2)

Read the descriptive passages. Identify the different senses the author has described.

Identifying 5 Senses (1)

Read the descriptive passages. Identify the different senses the author has described.

Looks Like, Sounds Like, Feels Like Graphic Organiser

An organiser to help identify imagery within a text or to plan writing.

Creating Images: Plane Trip

Read a short passage and build a visual image to match. Draw it!