Filter by
Subjects
Subject categories
- All subject categories (529)
- (-) Comprehension (157)
- English (156)
- Book-based resources (96)
- Retrieval (35)
- Inference (29)
- Biographies and autobiographies (11)
- Topical and seasonal (5)
- Writing different text types (3)
- Citizenship (2)
- Explain/give word meanings (2)
- Identify/explain language, structure and presentation (2)
- Persuasive writing (2)
- Queen's Jubilee (2)
- Religious Education (2)
- Summarise the main ideas (2)
- Arguments and discussions (1)
- Books (1)
- Christmas (1)
- Diary writing (1)
- Discussion and debate (1)
- Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) (1)
- English (1)
- Hinduism (1)
- History (1)
- History (1)
- Islam (1)
- J. K. Rowling (1)
- Language (1)
- Literacy (1)
- Myths and legends (1)
- Pirates (1)
- Poetry (1)
- Reading in the EYFS (1)
- Reading skills (1)
- Seaside (1)
- Spoken language (1)
- The Ancient Greeks (1)
- Writing skills (1)
Key stage
Global tag
- (-) All global tags (319)
- Comprehension (71)
- Fiction (45)
- Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta (24)
- Reading (23)
- Writing (16)
- Michael Morpurgo (9)
- Oxford Reading Tree Stage 1 (8)
- Roald Dahl (8)
- Julia Donaldson (6)
- Anne Fine (4)
- Oxford Reading Tree Stage 4 (3)
- Oxford Reading Tree Stage 8 (3)
- Oxford Reading Tree Stage 9 (3)
- Reading (3)
- Writing (3)
- Billy the Kid (2)
- Boy (2)
- Fiction (2)
- Friend or Foe (2)
- Gene Kemp (2)
- Harry Potter series (2)
- Ian Whybrow (2)
- J. K. Rowling (2)
- Martin Waddell (2)
- Michael Morpurgo (2)
- Oliver Jeffers (2)
- Oxford Reading Tree Stage 2 (2)
- Oxford Reading Tree Stage 3 (2)
- Oxford Reading Tree Stage 5 (2)
- The BFG (2)
- The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler (2)
- Whiff (2)
- A Christmas Carol (1)
- Akimbo and the Elephants (1)
- Alexander McCall Smith (1)
- Anne Fine (1)
- Berlie Doherty (1)
- Bill's New Frock (1)
- Charles Dickens (1)
- Charlotte's Web (1)
- David Wiesner (1)
- Diary of a Killer Cat (1)
- Dylan Sheldon and Gary Blythe (1)
- E. B. White (1)
- George's Marvellous Medicine (1)
- Helen Ward (1)
- I Believe in Unicorns (1)
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1)
- James and the Giant Peach (1)
- Janet and Allan Ahlberg (1)
- Judith Kerr (1)
- Knights of the Borrowed Dark (1)
- Madame Doubtfire (1)
- Mog Stories (1)
- Murder Most Unladylike (1)
- Non-fiction (1)
- Norton Juste (1)
- Oxford Reading Tree Stage 6 (1)
- Oxford Reading Tree Stage 7 (1)
- Philip Pullman (1)
- R. J. Palacio (1)
- Roald Dahl (1)
- Robert Browning (1)
- Robert Browning (1)
- Roddy Doyle (1)
- Roddy Doyle (1)
- Room on the Broom (1)
- Street Child (1)
- The Butterfly Lion (1)
- The Dancing Bear (1)
- The Firework-Maker's Daughter (1)
- The Giggler Treatment (1)
- The Gruffalo (1)
- The Hobbit (1)
- The Hodgeheg (1)
- The Incredible Book Eating Boy (1)
- The Jolly Christmas Postman (1)
- The Phantom Tollbooth (1)
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1)
- The Roundhill (1)
- The Smartest Giant in Town (1)
- The Snail and the Whale (1)
- The Tin Forest (1)
- The Way Back Home (1)
- The Witches (1)
- Tuesday (1)
- Why the Whales Came (1)
- Wonder (1)
Resource type
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.