Filter by
Subjects
Key stage
Global tag
- (-) All global tags (169)
- Algebra (18)
- Graphs (14)
- Experimental skills (9)
- Oxford Reading Tree Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories (9)
- Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales (9)
- Cause and consequence (8)
- Required practicals (8)
- Analysis and evaluation (6)
- Handling data (6)
- Oxford Reading Tree Explore with Biff, Chip and Kipper (6)
- Using evidence (6)
- Oxford Reading Tree All Stars (5)
- Comprehension (4)
- Oxford Reading Tree Floppy's Phonics Fiction (4)
- Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds (4)
- Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks (4)
- Oxford Reading Tree Decode and Develop (3)
- Oxford Reading Tree inFact (3)
- Oxford Reading Tree Word Sparks (3)
- Post-1900 (3)
- Speaking (3)
- Beatrix Potter (2)
- Carol Ann Duffy (2)
- Chronology (2)
- Continuity and change (2)
- Geometry and trigonometry (2)
- Julia Donaldson (2)
- Similarity and difference (2)
- William Shakespeare (2)
- Anita Desai (1)
- Europe (1)
- Fasting, Feasting (1)
- Interpretations (1)
- Joe Simpson (1)
- Macbeth (1)
- Macbeth (1)
- Pre-1900 (1)
- Robert Frost (1)
- Room on the Broom (1)
- Significance (1)
- Sonnet 116 (1)
- The Gruffalo (1)
- The Tale of Jeremy Fisher (1)
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1)
- Touching the Void (1)
- Wilfred Owen (1)
- William Shakespeare (1)
Resource type
- Student activity (243)
- Revision (228)
- Starter/Plenary (222)
- Worksheet (202)
- Homework (134)
- Game/quiz (91)
- Teaching ideas (64)
- Exam preparation (18)
- Templates (13)
- Role play/debate/discussion (12)
- Complete lesson (9)
- Differentiated (9)
- Display/posters (8)
- Presentation (7)
- Teaching pack (6)
- Assembly (5)
- Self-assessment (5)
- Video (5)
- Assessment (4)
- Knowledge organisers (4)
- Form tutor (3)
- Teaching tools and tips (3)
- Lesson plan (2)
- Book recommendations (1)
- Scheme of work (1)
Exam board
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.