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Reading Comprehension

Reading comprehension is such an important skill to practice in special education. Reading comprehension can be practiced through answering WH questions (who, what, when, where, why, and how), sequencing, main idea and key details, point of view, context clues, and inferencing. Below are FREE and some fully editable worksheets to help get you started! Click on each resource to open it.

Here is a worksheet template to help provide individuals with a visual when answering WH questions based on a story that they have read or that has been read to them. This worksheet provides data points to help track how an individual is progressing with their reading comprehension skills. This worksheet does not include any visual choices, but has the option to add in visual choices based on a story that the individual is reading. This worksheet includes, who, what, when, and where questions. It could be edited to include why (inferencing) or how questions. This worksheet opens in Microsoft Word and is fully editable.

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Here is a worksheet template to help provide individuals with a visual when sequencing 3 events directly from a story that they have read or that has been read to them. This worksheet provides an example of how visuals could be incorporated. This worksheet could be edited to include 5 events directly from a story. This worksheet could also be edited to where students write the events that happened (would need lines provided for writing) instead of cutting and pasting pictures. This worksheet provides a data point to help track how an individual is progressing with their reading comprehension skills. This worksheet opens in Microsoft word and is fully editable.

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This is a WH sort craft. This has individuals sort who, what, and where questions. This was created by a speech pathologist, Kristen Burchard, M.S. CCC-SLP. This resource is not editable, but is Free! Just click on the image of the resource to open it for yourself. It opens as a PDF.

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