High interest texts and reading comprehension tasks for teens

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Are your English, Life Skills, Transition or Work Education students looking for some new and engaging reading comprehension texts? This new reading comprehension pack includes high interest texts, pre-reading, comprehension tasks and questions, parts of speech activities, setting goals and reflection pages and a marking rubric to help take the hard work out of your next reading skills unit.

 

What's inside?

The resource includes 60 pages of content:

 

  • 6 high interest texts to read (including narrative, visual texts, diary entry)
  • Pre-reading pages to encourage planning and preparation before beginning the text
  • Reading comprehension pages (parts of speech, comprehension questions, multiple choice, sentence beginning and ending matching task, extension / hands on learning task)
  • Goal setting page to encourage student independent learning and growth mind set
  • Reflection page to encourage accountability and reflection on progress
  • Teacher / trainer marking rubric

 

6 High interest texts

 

1. Car Wash

A narrative about a young woman washing her new car.

2. Windsurfing

A story with some technical language about a young man who wants to compete at the Windsurfing World Championships in Italy.

3. Diwali

A narrative with visual elements about an upcoming festival to celebrate the Diwali Festival of Lights.

4. Street Art

A last minute present rush for Christmas leads to a moment of inspiration for a street art tour in the local neighbourhood.

5. Party

A visual text with informal language about party preparations for a birthday.

6. Road trip

A diary entry text with dates, distances and times detailing a road trip through outback Australia.

 

What to do

Read the texts to identify a good fit for each student. Ask students to complete the pre-reading and goal setting pages for the selected text. Read the text together, or independently depending on the reading level of your students. Select the reading comprehension tasks that are a good fit for the skills you are teaching in your own class or group and with their own learning and reading goals. Ask students to complete the tasks that match their goals then work with them to check their answers and fill in their reflection page. Discuss and agree on future learning goals. Complete the marking rubric for each student to help you keep a track of progress over time.

 

Spelling and units of distance

There are 2 versions of this resource included - one uses miles for distance and USA spelling, while the other uses metric for distance and British English for spelling.

 

Terms of use

Please do not share, resell or upload this resource to a share folder or post it on social media groups or forums. The rights of Anne Vize as author are asserted and this resource has been developed in good faith that teachers and trainers will purchase their own copy for use with their own students. Please let me know if you need an editable version to support learners with specific learning or visual requirements realworldeducationresources@gmail.com