(R801) Reading Comprehension Practice – Volume 1: Short Biographies and Fables

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In this 17-page resource, we have prepared 10 short, classic reading passages, each with 10 questions probing comprehension at different levels of abstraction, to help teachers and others working with students to model comprehension strategies.

Comprehension questions include simple “look back and find” facts in the text, as well as questions that require reorganisation of information, and abstract “why” and “how” questions requiring inferencing, prediction, retelling and other higher level language skills.

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Over the years, we’ve thought a lot about reading comprehension problems, and what to do about them.*

One way to improve reading comprehension skills is to practice evidence-based oral and reading comprehension strategies together regularly using interesting texts, adult modelling and think alouds, reciprocal teaching, and scaffolded dialogues around summarising, clarifying, question generating and predicting (e.g. Clarke et al., 2010).

To help teachers and others working with students to model comprehension strategies, in this 17-page resource, we have prepared 10 short, classic reading passages, each with 10 questions probing comprehension at different levels of abstraction.

Comprehension questions include simple “look back and find” facts in the text, as well as questions that require reorganisation of information, and abstract “why” and “how” questions requiring inferencing, prediction, retelling and other higher level language skills.

For students with good or advanced comprehension skills, we include an extension task to allow differentiation when working with groups. The passages are short and were selected to appeal to both young primary school students and older students with language or learning challenges. The theme of this volume is short biographies and fables.

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*You can read some of our thoughts and strategies for improving oral language and reading comprehension in our articles: