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Reading comprehension: the visit

Reading comprehension: the visit

An excellent worksheet to familiarise your child with reading comprehension and how it's tested and evaluated.
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Reading comprehension: the bad haircut

Reading comprehension: the bad haircut

Reading comprehension is a big part of SATs. Help your child feel confident with the format with our worksheet, compiled by a primary school teacher. A marking scheme is provided so you can evaluate your child's work.
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Engaging With English

Created by an early years education expert, the Engaging with English pack will provide you with lively and original ideas to help bring four popular children’s books vividly to life. Whether your child is in the EYFS or KS1 these activities are the perfect starting point for turning book-shy children into bookworms.
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First reading comprehension worksheets

First reading comprehension

Use this teacher-created reading comprehension activity to help your child with reading aloud and answering questions on a text.
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Reading to interpret worksheet

Reading to interpret

Help your child unlock hidden meaning in text with this worksheet about colour association. After reading an explanation and examples, can they put their knowledge into practice in their own writing? Suggested answers are included so you can look over their work and help them improve it.
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Reading comprehension: finding evidence in a text worksheet

Reading comprehension: finding evidence in a text

This activity, aimed at Year 7 or advanced primary school pupils, will help your child analyse and break down a text to find evidence for their answers. What words have been used to create an impact? What images have been painted for the reader? Work through this activity step by step to practise reading comprehension.
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Understanding text: purpose and target audience worksheet

Understanding text: purpose and target audience

Time for some text analysis! Can your child identify the purpose and target audience of different types of text which all relate to the same subject? They will need to look for key words to help them prove their point.
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Finding clues in text worksheet

Finding clues in text

Test reading comprehension skills with some thorough analysis of a short piece of text. What atmosphere, emotion and setting does the writer convey? What effective techniques are used? A KS3 worksheet, also suitable to stretch gifted Year 6 pupils.
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Reading comprehension: adders worksheet

Reading comprehension: adders

This sheet consists of a text on adders for your child to read. They then need to make notes in the boxes to show that they understand how to group information by theme.
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Establishing time and place worksheet

Establishing time and place

Children need to look at two diary entries and then comment on the features that give clues as to the period in which the diary was written.
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Word choice worksheet

Word choice

Children are given a list of sentences with one word missing; they are then prompted to choose a word from the list given to improve the sentence.
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Perspective in writing worksheet

Perspective in writing

A passage of text that includes the perspective of three characters; children need to answer questions prompting them to think about the different points of view.
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Illustrating a text worksheet

Illustrating a text

Children need to read a paragraph of text and then use the imagery in it to guide them to draw a picture of what is described.
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Creating dramatic effects: drama and tension worksheet

Creating dramatic effects: drama and tension

An extract of text in which the writer has built up drama and suspense; children need to think about the ways in which this has been achieved.
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Creating comic effect worksheet

Creating comic effect

An extract from a playscript. Children are asked to read the text and think about the techniques used to create a comic effect.
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Analysing perspective worksheet

Analysing perspective

A passage of text that shows the writer has a clear perspective on a proposed supermarket. Children are encouraged to write an explanation of the writer's point of view about the development.
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Using figurative language: similes and metaphors worksheet

Using figurative language: similes and metaphors

A passage of text containing similes and metaphors. Children need to read the definition of each and then highlight each in different colours.
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Using figurative language: hyperbole and personification worksheet

Using figurative language: hyperbole and personification

A passage of text containing hyperbole and personification. Children need to read the definition of each and then highlight each in different colours.
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Reading comprehension: The night watch worksheet

Reading comprehension: The night watch

A passage of text along with questions designed to prompt your child to retrieve information and infer ideas about characters' feelings. Answers are included.
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Figurative language review worksheet

Figurative language review

This challenging worksheet includes a description of hyperbole, metaphor, simile and personification. It then includes a piece of text containing all four types of figurative language for children to consider and highlight.
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