Filter by
Subjects
Subject categories
- All subject categories (4677)
- Literature (930)
- (-) Modern prose (930)
- Reading (930)
- Prose (929)
- English (928)
- Language (6)
- Grammar, spelling and vocabulary (5)
- Punctuation (3)
- Sentence construction (2)
- Varying sentences (2)
- Commas (1)
- Direct speech (1)
- Drama (1)
- Form and structure (1)
- Independent reading (1)
- Language analysis (1)
- Planning essays (1)
- Poetry (1)
- Reading skills (1)
- Themes (1)
- Writing for purpose and audience (1)
- Writing skills (1)
Global tag
- (-) All global tags (2399)
- Post-1900 (344)
- Fiction (192)
- Fiction (160)
- Of Mice and Men (70)
- John Steinbeck (68)
- Angela Carter (53)
- Modern (50)
- Robert Swindells (43)
- William Golding (41)
- Lord of the Flies (39)
- Ian McEwan (35)
- Margaret Atwood (34)
- Wise Children (33)
- Roddy Doyle (32)
- George Orwell (30)
- Harper Lee (26)
- The Great Gatsby (26)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (26)
- Stone Cold (25)
- The Handmaid’s Tale (25)
- Animal Farm (23)
- Susan Hill (23)
- The Woman in Black (23)
- History (22)
- Wilderness (22)
- History (20)
- The Bloody Chamber (20)
- Gothic (19)
- Michael Frayn (19)
- Spies (19)
- Artemis Fowl (18)
- Eoin Colfer (18)
- The Child in Time (17)
- David Almond (16)
- Enduring Love (16)
- Alice Walker (15)
- Arundhati Roy (15)
- Khaled Hosseini (15)
- The Color Purple (15)
- The God of Small Things (15)
- About a Boy (14)
- Andrea Levy (14)
- Nick Hornby (14)
- Skellig (14)
- Small Island (14)
- Heroes (13)
- Robert Cormier (13)
- Theresa Breslin (11)
- Whispers in the Graveyard (11)
- Lloyd Jones (10)
- Mister Pip (10)
- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (10)
- Roddy Doyle (10)
- Sarah Waters (9)
- The Little Stranger (9)
- Abomination (8)
- Anthony Horowitz (8)
- Bali Rai (8)
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (8)
- Benjamin Zephaniah (8)
- Dai Sijie (8)
- Joe Simpson (8)
- Rani and Sukh (8)
- The Kite Rider (8)
- Touching the Void (8)
- Across the Barricades (7)
- Anita and Me (7)
- Buddy (7)
- Chinua Achebe (7)
- E.M. Forster (7)
- Joan Lingard (7)
- Kate Atkinson (7)
- Meera Syal (7)
- Mildred D. Taylor (7)
- Morris Gleitzman (7)
- Nigel Hinton (7)
- Property (7)
- Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (7)
- The Kite Runner (7)
- Valerie Martin (7)
- Beloved (6)
- Curley’s wife (6)
- Gangsta Rap (6)
- John Danalis (6)
- Riding the Black Cockatoo (6)
- Sebastian Barry (6)
- Sylvia Plath (6)
- The Secret Scripture (6)
- Things Fall Apart (6)
- Toni Morrison (6)
- Two Weeks with the Queen (6)
- 1984 (5)
- Athol Fugard (5)
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum (5)
- Birdsong (5)
- Cold Comfort Farm (5)
- Ken Kesey (5)
- L.P. Hartley (5)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (5)
- Sebastian Faulks (5)
- Stella Gibbons (5)
- The Catcher in the Rye (5)
- The Go-Between (5)
- Tsotsi (5)
- A Room With a View (4)
- Bill Bryson (4)
- Blitzed (4)
- Crooks (4)
- Don’t Ask Jack (4)
- Graham Greene (4)
- Kevin Brooks (4)
- Marcus Sedgwick (4)
- Martyn Pig (4)
- Michael Morpurgo (4)
- Neil Gaiman (4)
- Notes from a Small Island (4)
- Pat Barker (4)
- Regeneration (4)
- White Teeth (4)
- Zadie Smith (4)
- Anita Desai (3)
- Brighton Rock (3)
- Fasting, Feasting (3)
- Heritage (3)
- Howard’s End (3)
- J.D. Salinger (3)
- John Fowles (3)
- Lennie (3)
- Michael Morpurgo (3)
- Stephen Davies (3)
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman (3)
- The Yellowcake Conspiracy (3)
- Atonement (2)
- Cirque du Freak (2)
- Daphne du Maurier (2)
- Darren Shan (2)
- Deborah Ellis (2)
- Edith Wharton (2)
- Ethan Frome (2)
- Face (2)
- Jill Paton Walsh (2)
- Kazuo Ishiguro (2)
- Knowledge of Angels (2)
- Never Let Me Go (2)
- Non-fiction (2)
- Non-fiction (2)
- Rebecca (2)
- The Breadwinner (2)
- Thomas Hardy (2)
- When Will There Be Good News? (2)
- William Shakespeare (2)
- William Shakespeare (2)
- Andy Mulligan (1)
- An Inspector Calls (1)
- Anne Fine (1)
- Anne Fine (1)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns (1)
- Canon Fire (1)
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon (1)
- Charlotte Bronte (1)
- Cormac McCarthy (1)
- Cosmic (1)
- David Guterson (1)
- Frank Cottrell Boyce (1)
- Geraldine McCaughrean (1)
- Holes (1)
- Iain Banks (1)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1)
- Into the Wild (1)
- J.B. Priestley (1)
- James Dashner (1)
- Jane Eyre (1)
- Jean Rhys (1)
- Jenny Valentine (1)
- Joseph Delaney (1)
- Louis Sachar (1)
- Maya Angelou (1)
- Michael Foreman (1)
- Mrs Dalloway (1)
- Northern Lights (1)
- Philip Pullman (1)
- Philip Pullman (1)
- Ralph (1)
- Slim (1)
- Snow Falling on Cedars (1)
- Stephanie Meyer (1)
- The Ant Colony (1)
- The Maze Runner (1)
- The Prince of Mist (1)
- The Road (1)
- The Spook’s Apprentice (1)
- The Wasp Factory (1)
- Trash (1)
- Twilight (1)
- Virginia Woolf (1)
- War Game (1)
- Wide Sargasso Sea (1)
Resource type
- Worksheet (436)
- Student activity (434)
- Complete lesson (117)
- Revision (94)
- Role play/debate/discussion (55)
- Teaching ideas (54)
- Game/quiz (53)
- Exam preparation (46)
- Starter/Plenary (37)
- Assessment (16)
- Differentiated (12)
- Scheme of work (12)
- Homework (8)
- Templates (8)
- Knowledge organisers (3)
- Lesson plan (1)
- Teaching tools and tips (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.