Comprehension Strategies Teaching Resources
A comprehensive collection of comprehension strategies resources. Use the display resources within this collection to visually represent the different comprehension strategies to your students. There are also a large number of hands-on activities, including before, during and after reading dice and wheel prompts, comprehension strategies, board games, sequencing activities and 'I can' statements to use as goal-setting resources. Also provided are comprehension strategy packs that have everything in them you need to teach finding word meaning in context, distinguishing between real and make-believe, author's purpose, summarising, understanding sequence, making predictions, drawing conclusions and making inferences, interpreting figurative language, finding the main idea, recalling facts and details, distinguishing between fact and opinion, comparing and contrasting and cause and effect.
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Novel Study - Create a New Cover Worksheet
A worksheet which encourages students to create a new book cover for a shared class novel.
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Novel Study - Draw a Scene Worksheet
A worksheet which helps students explore important scenes from a class novel.
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Novel Study - Points of View Worksheet
3 worksheets to help students analyse the points of view of opposing characters in a literary text.
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Novel Study - Character Map Worksheet
3 worksheets to assist with analysing characters in a class novel.
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Procedure Text Sequencing Activity - How to Wash Your Hands
A hands-on learning activity to consolidate students' understanding of the structure of procedure texts.
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Procedure Text Sequencing Activity - How to Make Pancakes
A hands-on learning activity to consolidate students' understanding of the structure of procedure texts.
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Procedure Text Sequencing Activity - How to Brush Your Teeth
A hands-on learning activity to consolidate students' understanding of the structure of procedure texts.
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Literature Study - Upper Primary - Task Cards
A set of 14 literature study task cards for upper primary students to use when analysing children's literature.
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Literature Study - Lower Primary - Task Cards
A set of 12 literature study task cards for lower primary students to use when analysing children's literature.
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Word of the Week Flip Book - Year 4
A 43 page flip book for introducing new vocabulary to year 4 students.
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Word of the Week PowerPoint - Year 4
A 40 slide PowerPoint Template for introducing new vocabulary to year 4 students.
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Activating Prior Knowledge - Comprehension Strategy Task Cards
A set of 12 task cards to help students activate their prior knowledge before reading.
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The Inferring Song Poster
A fabulous song to use when learning about inference.
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A Rhyme a Dozen - Matching Game
A concentration style card game that can be used to consolidate students' knowledge of rhyming words.
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Viewing Response Template
A useful template to encourage students to make careful observations and interpretations while viewing visual prompts.
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Is It a Fact or an Opinion? - Worksheet
A worksheet to practise identifying facts and opinions.
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Inferring Written Scenario Task Cards
Task cards that help students use their knowledge and ideas to help them decode ideas in texts
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Summarising a Story Flipbook
A template for students to use when summarising a story.
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Using Context Clues – Worksheet
A worksheet to practise using context clues when reading.
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Fact or Opinion - Sentence Sort Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to distinguish between fact or opinion.
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What's Missing? – Interactive PowerPoint
An interactive presentation where students try to guess what object is missing from the picture.
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Year 1 Magazine – "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 3) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 3 of Teach Starter’s Year 1 magazine.
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Year 2 Magazine – "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 3) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 3 of Teach Starter’s Year 2 magazine.
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Spring Is Here Poem – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a poem about the season spring.
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Poetry Comprehension Worksheet
A generic poetry comprehension worksheet.
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Super Stamina Reading Posters
A set of 6 reading stamina posters that highlight strategies students can use to read for longer periods of time.
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'I take it you already know' - Poster
A poster displaying 'I take it you already know', a poem describing the difficulties in the English language.
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Inferring Practice – Worksheet
A worksheet to practise making inferences.
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Novel Study - Chapter Summary Worksheet
A worksheet to help students reflect on their thoughts after reading a chapter in a class novel.
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The Games Arena - Comprehension Board Game
A sport themed board game for students to play when learning about international sporting events.
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Research Skills Worksheets - Note Taking
A set of 6 worksheets to help students identify key facts, details and vocabulary when researching information.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Making Predictions
An extensive resource pack helping students to learn how to make predictions.