Comprehending Compendium

Back to Basics!

• How to Skim Comprehension Texts
  A fantastic guide to skimming texts efficiently, with additional exercises to help develop your skill in this area.

• Interactive Skimming
  An interactive skimming activity that tests your ability to identify the main ideas in the provided text.

• How to Identify the Main Idea in a Text
  An interactive activity challenging students to identify the main idea in short texts.

• A Guide to Reading Comprehension
  Guides students through the reading process. Identifies paragraph patterns and main topics.

• Tips for Reading Comprehension
  Useful basic approaches to reading comprehension. Includes pre-reading activities, questions on characters, retell, summarise and connect the text to other texts.

• Improve your Vocabulary
  An interactive activity to test your vocabulary awareness.

So you think pictures are easier?

• Strategies for Reading Photographs
  Careful guidelines on how to analyse a photograph. Contains general vocabulary list.

• Analysing Visual Texts
  Lesson plan that encourages students to study and analyse a visual text. Includes worksheet and materials.

• Reading Photographs
  Interesting article that helps students being to "read" a photograph.

Comprehending for the teacher!

• Ideas for Teaching News Media
  Ideas for using the "Behind the News" website including before and after watching activites, keeping a news journal, interviews, speeches and discussion.

• The Art Of Speaking, Through the Eyes of a Dancer.
  A lesson that explores communicating through movement rather than speech. Ideas for improving kinesthetic intelligences.

• Team Reading Activity
  A plausible group-reading activity with step by step planning.

Comprehension Tests

• Reading Comprehension Exercise - Half Truths
  Extract entitled Half-truths with structured comprehension questions to complete.

• Pizza and Comprehension
  Short comprehension dialogue text with questions based on deductive reasoning.

• Types of Text
  Colourful, interactive website that explains the features of different types of texts. Contains quizzes, games and worksheets.

• Narrative vs Analysis - Online comprehension test
  Texts that test your understanding of narrative and analysis when writing about prescribed texts.

• Activities to Improve your Comprehension
  A selection of reading exercises with vocabulary and comprehension activities.

• Test your Skimming
  A challenging worksheet that tests your skimming skills.

• Editorial Writing-Test Yourself
  Samples of Editorial writing to assess and compare awareness of audience, genre and register. Two key activites to be completed.

Testing Comprehension!

• Comprehending Crossword
  Test your knowledge of approaches to comprehensions.

• Narrative writing - quiz
  Test your knowledge of narrative writing techniques.

• Can you write a speech? - Quiz
  Test your knowledge of speech writing and delivery.

• Speech Making crossword
  A puzzle to test your awareness of speech making.

Fun things to do and learn

• Project - Design a Board Game
  Read a fantasy or Science fiction short story or novel and design a board game based on it using notes made while reading under headings of character, setting, landmarks of the journey/events, goal/treasure to be attained.

• Blogging
  Blogs for readers