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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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Main Idea Concept Map

A concept map to help learners organise their ideas and help determine the main idea of a text.
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5Ws Graphic Organiser

A graphic organiser that guides learners to answer the 5 Ws (who, what, when, where, why & how) to help learners identify the main idea of a text.
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Main Idea & Supporting Details Organiser

A summarising graphic organiser to help learners show the difference between the main idea and the supporting details.
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Beginning, Middle, End Graphic Organiser

A summarising graphic organiser to help learners summarise the beginning, middle and end of a text.
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Story Map Template Organiser

This template helps learners map out a story, identifying all the key events.
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Storyboard Graphic Organiser

This template helps learners map out a story by identifying all the key events.
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Inference Question Set 4

Read each passage. Answer the question. Underline the clues that lead to the answer.
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Inference Question Set 3

Read each passage. Answer the question. Underline the clues that lead to the answer.
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Inference Question Set 2

Read each passage. Answer the question. Underline the clues that lead to the answer.
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Inference Question Set 1

Read each passage. Answer the question. Underline the clues that lead to the answer.
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Self-Questioning Chart

A self-questioning template to support learners developing questions to ask themselves about texts they read.
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Differentiated Inferring Set: Toby

Read the passage. Make a list of the clues and what can be inferred from the text. The easier sheet supports the learner to find clues and make inferences.
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Inferring from Text: Tina

Read the passage. Make a list of the clues and what can be inferred from the text. The easier sheet supports the learner to find clues and make inferences.
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Differentiated Inferring Set: Jen

Read the passage. Make a list of the clues and what can be inferred from the text. The easier sheet supports the learner to find clues and make inferences.
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An Interview With…

Choose a character from a book/TV show/movie to conduct an interview with. Prepare two interview questions and then take on the role of the chosen character to show how they might answer them!
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Writing Facts & Opinions

Write a fact and an opinion to complete each sentence.