An interactive tests scholars' reading comprehension skills. After reading or listening to a brief informational text, learners answer five fill-in-the-blank questions. Results appear instantly.

Test scholar's reading comprehension skills with a practice that challenges pupils to read an informational text about the Amerian Revolution then answer 10 questions. 

Brush up on your reading comprehension skills when you check out this website. It looks at a particular strategy called QAR. QAR stands for "Question-Answer Relationships." This particular strategy helps students learn to answer reading...

This article describes some of the thought processes that can help students perform well on standardized tests of reading comprehension. It includes two reading passages along with sample test questions that call on skills that eighth...

In this article, "comprehension strategies" are explained. Supported by research, these strategies are divided into seven different steps, including the following: monitoring comprehension, metacognition, graphic and semantic organizers,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a five-page PDF fiction passage entitled "Amy's Halloween Secret" followed by 10 reading comprehension questions. Click on double arrow on the top right to download, print, or make full screen....

Article provides excellent tips and strategies for building comprehension and critical thinking skills in Social Studies. It describes some of the challenges students have with reading and understanding their textbooks.

Use explicit strategy instruction to make visible the invisible comprehension strategies that good readers use to understand text. Support students until they can use the strategies independently. Recycle and re-teach strategies...

A resourceful site explaining, chronicling, and detailing the idea of students' monitoring their own comprehension of a task or understanding. Includes a video link, quotes from experts, links, and more.

A reading passage with five multiple-choice questions to assess comprehension.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ten free reading comprehension tests with a corresponding answer key and list of reading skills covered. All passages are high interest for middle school students.

This interactive quiz assesses students' reading comprehension skills of informational text passages. Students will read 30 short passages and answer question about a detail for each.

Explore a list of simple things that principals can do to help all children learn to read. Come and learn more about the collaboration process with school administrators, teachers and staff.

Students read about explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew as they attempted to circumnavigate the globe. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

After reading this informative article about elephants, students will hone their reading comprehension skills by answering a series of related questions.

This page provides a detailed chart to aid students' understanding of texts. It goes through the steps of pre-reading, during reading, and after reading, outlining what students should be thinking about as they interact with a text. This...

Links to 94 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard RL.4.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4 and 5 text complexity band proficiently,...

Choose from a variety of lessons that meet the Kindergarten standard of engaging in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Links to 30 worksheets and graphic organizers that can be downloaded and printed. Each worksheet focuses on skills highlighted in standard RL.3.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend...

Designed for adult learners, this literacy lesson could easily be used in the high school or middle school classroom. Some handouts are included, but some material must be found in a newspaper or magazine.

Students read about how glaciers created land forms such as mountains and lakes during and after the Ice Age. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks passage provides a brief history of the American Civil War. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension. An additional answer sheet is included to...

An informational text about the Republic of Ghana in West Africa. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about important architecture throughout history. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.