Reading is a very important part of learning a language. It's considered a receptive skill, otherwise known as a passive skill, which means that students don’t necessarily have to produce language - just receive it. But more often than not, students have difficulty reading because of vocabulary and/or the context involved. BusyTeacher.org offers 1,314 reading comprehension worksheets that are sure to help your students stay engaged in their reading, by providing interesting stories and effective exercises.
We as teachers don’t always have the time to make up our own stories, or go through books to pick out excerpts to present in our lessons. The reading worksheets on BusyTeacher.org offer a variety of different stories and texts in different categories and genres to help your students improve their reading ability and learn the language, all the while enjoying the stories they're reading. Depending on what you're aiming to teach, you can use these worksheets in a whole variety of different ways in the classroom. If a worksheet has a story that contains dialogue, you could assign roles to students and have them act out what the characters say. You can also use the stories on the worksheets to create comprehension questions. Some worksheets can even make for classroom discussion topics. After reading a passage, you can present a question to students, and ask them to give their opinions of where the story is going. These are just some of the many things you can do to make use of these worksheets in the classroom.
Whether you're teaching scanning, skimming, critical thinking, or reading for gist, BusyTeacher.org has the worksheet(s) you need for your lessons. There are worksheets on just about any topic you can think of - sports, business, history, and holidays to name a few. Another handy feature on BusyTeacher.org is that each worksheet has the level shown in the description, which makes it easy for you to find an appropriate worksheet for your students. The thumbnail can be opened to full page view, so you can check if the worksheet is right for your lesson. Some worksheets you'll find here are appropriate for several - or even for all levels, which means they're reusable for a future lessons with students at different levels.
No registration or subscription is necessary to download our worksheets. They’re all free to download, copy, and use in your lessons. Plus, all of them were created and uploaded by fellow ESL teachers from all around the globe, and have helped other ESL teachers in their lessons. In addition, if you have a worksheet you've created and would like to submit it to this site, you can do so by clicking the “Submit a worksheet” link at the bottom of this page. Join thousands of other ESL teachers using BusyTeacher.org, and bookmark us as your number-one stop for worksheets to use in your lessons daily! With 1,314 reading worksheets, planning your lessons has never been easier. Get started by checking out the most popular worksheets below. Try downloading one and using it in your lesson today!
Create awesome-looking custom word searches in seconds!
Make A Word Scramble:
Instantly create custom word/sentence scrambles for your class!
Make A Double Puzzle:
Generate double puzzles your students will love - hours of fun!
ESL Articles
View our latest knowledgebase articles that will help you become a better English teacher. Learn from
professional teachers and put a bit of your own creativity into it!
PPT related to Cambridge Reader, Different Worlds. It describes the feelings of a girl who is deaf. Can you imagine the world without hearing? This PPT helps you to motivate the reading time. It d ...
Full lesson plan for intermediate level, but could be used for advanced levels as well. Lesson is orientated around the ability to give excuses (imaginitive ones!).Poetry - past tense - compound ...
Guy Fakwes and the Gunpowder Polt - This fact sheet can be used as an extra resource when teaching students about Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot. What happened to Guy Fawkes? What happened to t ...
This sheet includes a short biography of Guy Fawkes followed by simple past exercises: find the past or present of the given verb, underline the date/time expressions, make notes about his life, w ...
We had an optional English Literature lesson last year. But we didn't have any books. Therefore, I prepared some sheets. This is one of them. It contains some general information about the age: th ...
The text was copied entirely from http://www.bonfirenight.net/ and only the background picture has been added. It is a text aimed to give more information on Guy Fawkes Night to adult students of ...
The worksheet is reading fun with well-known characters from fairy tales to motivate young learners.There are also some illustrations of the characters. Little Red Riding Hood held a party but Sn ...
This is a Halloween reading worksheet, that consists of 5 short (2-3 sentence stories). Ss need to read the beginning of each story, discuss and predict the ending. Then there's a matching exercis ...
It's an easy reading exercise. It is quite difficult to find a text suitable for adults who are on an elementary/beginner level. I've used the following tenses: present simple, past simple and con ...
Students are asked to read the short story about Lizzy going to the zoo with her parents. They are then asked to answer the questions by putting a circle around the correct letter. Which animals d ...
Find out why National Sandwich Day is celebrated on 3rd November. What is your favourite sandwich? What ingredients are in a BLT? How many types of sandwiches can you think of? Students read the t ...
Teaching material : YouTube. Objectives: to stimulate students to practice reading and speaking from a lovely current news like Yahoo or YouTube. Instructions : 1) The teacher provides the wo ...
This is a worsheet to help students with the pronunciation of words that have "ough". They also go over some past tense verbs. The reading includes the "ough" words that they learned how to pronou ...
Today is Theodore Roosevelt's birthday! What award was Theodore Roosevelt the first American to win? What were the key events in Theodore's Presidency? This worksheet includes some interesting fac ...
This is a reading comprehension worksheet for teaching or revising the present simple tense at elementary level. Students are asked to read the text, answer the questions, complete the senten ...
I picked up news from a major Uk newspaper abou the Ebola crisis and made it into a reading comprehension worksheet with a focus on vocabulary and reference exercises. The worksheet has 2 charts ...
This is a reading comprehension worksheet. Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to read the text, say if the statements given are true or false and support their answer by quo ...
The document is a very simple sheet with 6 texts on the most popular festivals I usually work with my second graders (13-15 years old). I know how difficult it is to find texts to fit in our ...
Students read the text about Chester the cheetah and answer the multiple choice questions. There are six multiple choice questions to answer. Having strong reading comprehension skills will also h ...
Students read the text about Pepin the penguin and answer the multiple choice questions. There are six multiple choice questions to answer. Having strong reading comprehension skills will also hel ...
This is a reading comprehension worksheet for teaching or revising jobs related vocabulary. Recommended for pre-intermediate students who are asked to read the text, answer the questions with comp ...
Hello! This time I'm uploading a text followed by activities to work with about Aurora Borealis. I'm working on Natural Wonders and we'll be dealing with a wonder each class (of 70'). The sk ...
This is a reading comprehension worksheet on the topic summer holidays. Recommended for pre-intermediate students who are asked to read the text, say if the statements are true or false and c ...
This is a reading comprehension worksheet for teaching or revising food related vocabulary. Recommended for pre-intermediate students who are asked to read the text, say if the statements are tru ...
It is an activity to evaluate past simple tense. There is a reading comprehension about an American legend very popular as Johnny Appleseed. Another activity is incomplete sentences and finally gr ...
2 11,856Pre-Int
Got a great worksheet on
Reading Comprehension?
Tell us about it and become a BusyTeacher contributor!