Filter by
Subjects
Subject categories
- All subject categories (2946)
- (-) Language (655)
- English (654)
- Writing skills (249)
- Reading skills (187)
- Writing for purpose and audience (181)
- Grammar, spelling and vocabulary (121)
- Language analysis (81)
- Comprehension (52)
- Understanding purpose and audience (41)
- Arguments and persuasive texts (39)
- Creative writing (38)
- Writing narrative texts (36)
- Form and structure (34)
- Spelling (32)
- Literature (30)
- Comparing texts (29)
- Developing vocabulary (22)
- Planning (21)
- Autobiography and biography (20)
- Reading (20)
- Punctuation (19)
- Spoken English (19)
- Textual variations and representations (19)
- Sentence construction (18)
- Recreative writing / text transformation (17)
- Independent reading (16)
- Speaking tasks (15)
- Word classes (13)
- Explanation texts (12)
- Characters (11)
- Using new words (11)
- Diversity and change (9)
- Homophones (8)
- Research skills (8)
- Debates and discussions (7)
- Understanding new words (7)
- Common errors (6)
- Fact and opinion (6)
- Setting (6)
- Speeches and presentations (6)
- Strategies (6)
- Verbs (6)
- Writing poetry (6)
- Commas (5)
- Expressing a point of view (5)
- Grammar (5)
- Inference (5)
- Inferring attitudes and bias (5)
- Language change (5)
- Language levels (5)
- Prefixes and suffixes (5)
- Structure and paragraphs (5)
- Using dictionaries (5)
- Using literary and rhetorical devices (5)
- Varying sentences (5)
- Building sentences (4)
- Direct speech (4)
- Discourse analysis (4)
- Instruction texts (4)
- Language development (4)
- Language in action (4)
- Plot (4)
- Proofreading (4)
- Summarising and synthesising (4)
- Using evidence (4)
- Accents and dialects (3)
- Capital letters (3)
- Lexis and semantics (3)
- Linking words and phrases (3)
- Sentence types (3)
- Adjectives (2)
- Apostrophes (2)
- Poetry (2)
- Synonyms and antonyms (2)
- Terminology (2)
- Topical and seasonal (2)
- 19th-century prose (1)
- Adverbial phrases (1)
- Adverbs (1)
- Biographies and autobiographies (1)
- Comprehension (1)
- Drama scripts (1)
- Festivals and celebrations (1)
- Fewer or less (1)
- History (1)
- Information texts (1)
- Language investigation (1)
- Modern prose (1)
- Nouns (1)
- Original writing (1)
- Parenthesis (1)
- Persuasive (1)
- Persuasive writing (1)
- Plurals (1)
- Prose (1)
- Retrieval (1)
- Role play (1)
- Subject-verb agreement (1)
- Summarise the main ideas (1)
- Understanding a prose text (1)
- Using evidence (1)
- Writing different text types (1)
Global tag
- (-) All global tags (158)
- Unseen (10)
- Non-fiction (9)
- Fiction (8)
- Heritage (8)
- Non-fiction (8)
- Post-1900 (8)
- Charles Dickens (7)
- Fiction (7)
- Roald Dahl (7)
- Roald Dahl (7)
- Charles Dickens (5)
- Robert Swindells (5)
- Pre-1900 (4)
- William Shakespeare (4)
- William Shakespeare (4)
- 19th century (3)
- Gothic (3)
- Into the Wild (3)
- Oliver Twist (3)
- Theresa Breslin (3)
- Whispers in the Graveyard (3)
- Great Expectations (2)
- Khaled Hosseini (2)
- Modern (2)
- Oliver Twist (2)
- Oscar Wilde (2)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (2)
- The Kite Runner (2)
- A Christmas Carol (1)
- A Christmas Carol (1)
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1)
- Blitzed (1)
- Charlotte Bronte (1)
- Chinua Achebe (1)
- David Almond (1)
- Drama and Media Studies (1)
- Dylan Thomas (1)
- H.G. Wells (1)
- Hard Times (1)
- Jane Eyre (1)
- Lloyd Jones (1)
- Malorie Blackman (1)
- Mister Pip (1)
- Nigel Hinton (1)
- Othello (1)
- Othello (1)
- Stone Cold (1)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1)
- The Monkey’s Paw (1)
- The Sign of Four (1)
- The Time Machine (1)
- Things Fall Apart (1)
- W.W. Jacobs (1)
Resource type
- (-) Worksheet (655)
- Complete lesson (124)
- Student activity (112)
- Exam preparation (65)
- Teaching ideas (62)
- Starter/Plenary (57)
- Differentiated (43)
- Role play/debate/discussion (26)
- Game/quiz (17)
- Revision (13)
- Templates (11)
- Assessment (10)
- Scheme of work (8)
- Homework (7)
- Lesson plan (7)
- Self-assessment (6)
- Form tutor (2)
- Knowledge organisers (2)
Special Education Need SEND
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.