Filter by
Subjects
Subject categories
- (-) All subject categories (758)
- History (91)
- English (77)
- Topical and seasonal (33)
- Maths (30)
- World War II (29)
- Comprehension (25)
- Languages (24)
- Writing different text types (23)
- The Ancient Greeks (20)
- Grammar and vocabulary (15)
- Poetry (14)
- All number resources (13)
- Retrieval (13)
- Festivals and celebrations (12)
- Multiplication and division (11)
- Significant individuals (11)
- Medieval Britain (10)
- Poems on a theme (10)
- Stone Age to the Iron Age (10)
- Inference (9)
- Newspapers (8)
- Problem solving (8)
- Sports (8)
- Maths (7)
- Queen's Jubilee (7)
- PSHE and wellbeing (6)
- Recall and use facts (6)
- Book-based resources (5)
- English (5)
- Modern Britain (5)
- Music (5)
- New year (5)
- Number (5)
- Seasons and special days (5)
- Toys (5)
- Biographies and autobiographies (4)
- Ratio and proportion (4)
- School (4)
- Spelling (4)
- Tenses (4)
- Tuned and untuned instruments (4)
- All about me (3)
- Christmas (3)
- Citizenship (3)
- Colours and numbers (3)
- Design and Technology (3)
- Geographical applications and skills (3)
- Georgians, Stuarts and Tudors (3)
- Historical enquiry (3)
- Hobbies, likes and dislikes (3)
- Letters, postcards and invitations (3)
- Narrative writing (3)
- Punctuation (3)
- Science (3)
- Sport (3)
- Summarise the main ideas (3)
- Weather (3)
- Wellbeing (3)
- Addition and subtraction (2)
- Adverbs and adverbials (2)
- Black History Month (2)
- Calculation (2)
- Conjunctions (2)
- Diary writing (2)
- Explain/give word meanings (2)
- Food and drink (2)
- Fractions, decimals and percentages (2)
- Free time (2)
- Geography (2)
- Geometry (2)
- History (2)
- Homophones and homonyms (2)
- Information texts (2)
- Key dates and events (2)
- Language (2)
- Languages (2)
- Measurement (2)
- Non-chronological reports (2)
- Persuasive writing (2)
- Pirates (2)
- Poetry forms (2)
- Prepositions (2)
- Pronouns (2)
- Reading (2)
- Verbs (2)
- Vocabulary (2)
- Word classes (2)
- Writing for purpose and audience (2)
- Writing skills (2)
- 2-D shapes (1)
- 2D shapes (1)
- Algebra (1)
- Algebra (1)
- All about me and my family (1)
- Anglo-Saxons, Scots and Vikings in Britain (1)
- Animals, including humans (1)
- Apostrophes (1)
- Area and perimeter (1)
- Arguments and discussions (1)
- Arguments and persuasive texts (1)
- Art (1)
- Autobiography and biography (1)
- BIDMAS (Order of operations) (1)
- Classroom management (1)
- Commas (1)
- Computing (1)
- Coordinates and the four quadrants (1)
- Earth and space (1)
- Endings (1)
- Fractions (1)
- Geographical skills and fieldwork (1)
- Geography (1)
- Geometry and measures (1)
- Greetings (1)
- Hinduism (1)
- Holidays (1)
- Homonyms and homophones (1)
- Identify/explain language, structure and presentation (1)
- Industrial Britain (1)
- Literature (1)
- Map skills (1)
- Missing number problems (1)
- Myths and legends (1)
- Non-European society (1)
- Nouns and noun phrases (1)
- Percentages (1)
- Perimeter, area and volume (1)
- Phonics (1)
- Pictograms, tally charts and block diagrams (1)
- Plants (1)
- Poetry (1)
- Prime, squared and cubed numbers (1)
- Programming and debugging (1)
- Ratio (1)
- Reading records (1)
- Reading skills (1)
- Seasons (1)
- Statistics (1)
- Straight line graphs (1)
- Time (1)
Global tag
- (-) All global tags (73)
- Comprehension (21)
- Writing (18)
- Non-fiction (9)
- Fiction (4)
- Duty Calls series (3)
- James Holland (3)
- Harry Potter series (2)
- J. K. Rowling (2)
- Reading (2)
- Roald Dahl (2)
- A Christmas Carol (1)
- Charles Dickens (1)
- Matilda (1)
- Speaking (1)
- Spoken language (1)
- World War One (1)
- Writing (1)
Resource type
- (-) Worksheet (261)
- Student activity (98)
- Homework (38)
- Starter/Plenary (16)
- Game/quiz (13)
- Differentiated (12)
- Presentation (11)
- Complete lesson (10)
- Assessment (8)
- Role play/debate/discussion (5)
- Teaching ideas (5)
- Display/posters (4)
- Lesson plan (4)
- Templates (4)
- Self-assessment (2)
- Exam preparation (1)
- Form tutor (1)
- Icebreaker (1)
Comprehension
Reading comprehension is an important strategy to improve key stage 3 and GCSE students' reading skills and their confidence as readers. When learners understand what they've read, can decode new words (and understand morphology) and make connections with prior knowledge, they can begin to think more deeply about texts and start to analyse and interpret a writer's craft, or read with a purpose. These vital reading strategies include summarising and synthesising, inferring, making predictions, and asking and answering questions.
Our resources include a rich and eclectic mix of KS3 English and GCSE comprehension worksheets, exercises and questions on a range of unseen fiction texts and non-fiction texts, including 19th-century fiction, short stories, articles and essays. Develop students' understanding of a range of comprehension strategies they can use with these targeted comprehension resources.
Our KS3 comprehension teaching pack is an ideal introduction during the transition from primary school to secondary school for year 7-8 students, with lesson plans, text extract and comprehension questions for use in class. Our Mastering comprehension teaching pack is designed to develop year 8-9 students' reading comprehension skills and their confidence approaching an unseen fiction text, to help upper KS3 students to make the transition to GCSE English Language study.