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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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Bushfire Fact & Opinion

Read an article on a news website about bushfires and identify the facts and the opinions. Differentiated worksheet set.

Gold Rush Cause & Effect (1)

(Middle Years) Read about the Gold Rush and identify cause and effect relationships to complete the cause and effect table.

Gold Rush Cause & Effect (2)

(Upper Years) Read about the Gold Rush and identify cause and effect relationships to complete the cause and effect table.

Making Connections: Waterpark (1)

For the early years. Students read the passage of text and write down connections they can make.

Making Connections: Waterpark (2)

For the middle years. Students read the passage of text and write down connections they can make.

Making Connections: Unfair

Students read the passage of text and write down connections they can make.

Making Connections: Hanging On

Students read the passage of text and write down connections they can make.

Making Connections: Gaming Dream

Students read the passage of text and write down connections they can make.

Making Connections: A Full Diary

Students read the passage of text and write down connections they can make.

Making Connections: Birthday Present

Students read the passage of text and write down connections they can make.

Reading Strategy Word Search

Find vocabulary related to different reading strategies in the letter jumble.

Comparing Strategy Word Search

Find the compare and contrast words in the jumble.