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Use 201–400 word texts to connect several ideas and support answers with more than one piece of evidence. Choose this band for a full reading lesson.

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The New Fence

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

By eight o'clock, orange string stretched along the low wall between our garden and the house next door. Mum watched from the kitchen window while the new neighbour checked the position of the wooden posts. I asked what…

Level
High school
Words
310 words
Questions
2 comp · 3 refl · 5 opin
Language
English
Text commentaries English

Until Five

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

Mr Harris put the shop key beside Ellis's mug, as though it belonged there already. He needed someone to run the bookshop on Saturdays while he visited his father. Ellis knew the customers, understood the till and had b…

Level
High school
Words
304 words
Questions
2 comp · 3 refl · 5 opin
Language
English
Text commentaries English

Seven Seconds

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

When the audience began laughing, Mara counted to three and switched off the stage lights. In the darkness below her booth, Leo was still kneeling beside his open suitcase. His final line, the one they had rehearsed for…

Level
High school
Words
298 words
Questions
2 comp · 3 refl · 5 opin
Language
English
Text commentaries English

Outside the Frame

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

The photograph showed my grandmother standing beside a bicycle, one hand raised towards someone outside the frame. I chose it for the college exhibition because, unlike our formal family portraits, it seemed to catch he…

Level
High school
Words
280 words
Questions
2 comp · 3 refl · 5 opin
Language
English
Text commentaries English

Why a Metal Spoon Warms Up in Soup

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

When a metal spoon at room temperature is placed in hot soup, the part under the surface soon warms up. Because the soup is at a higher temperature, energy moves from the soup into the cooler spoon. Heat is the transfer…

Level
Secondary
Words
212 words
Questions
2 comp · 1 refl · 1 opin
Language
English
Text commentaries English

The Same Place at Different Scales

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

A map cannot show a place exactly as it appears on the ground. Its scale determines how distances are reduced and, therefore, which features can be represented clearly. Scale expresses the relationship between a distanc…

Level
Secondary
Words
211 words
Questions
2 comp · 1 refl · 1 opin
Language
English
Text commentaries English

The Blue Folder

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

On Tuesday, Maya’s class was preparing an exhibition in the school hall. She was pinning up maps while Leo finished some photographs in the computer room. At break, Leo received her message: “Please bring the blue fold…

Level
Secondary
Words
209 words
Questions
2 comp · 1 refl · 1 opin
Language
English
Text commentaries English

The Blocked Shed

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

On Saturday morning, Leila and Owen were helping at the school garden sale. Ten minutes before opening, they went to fetch the electric mower from the shed, but the door moved only a few centimetres. A delivery van had…

Level
Secondary
Words
202 words
Questions
2 comp · 1 refl · 1 opin
Language
English
Text commentaries English

How Food-Preservation Methods Slow Spoilage

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

Food spoils when microorganisms grow, natural enzymes alter its tissues, or oxygen causes chemical changes such as fats becoming rancid. Preservation methods slow one or more of these processes, but they do not make eve…

Level
High school
Words
252 words
Questions
2 comp · 1 refl · 1 opin
Language
English
Text commentaries English

Why a Metal Spoon Warms Up When Stirring Soup

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

When a metal spoon is placed in hot soup, the immersed end warms first. The soup is at a higher temperature than the spoon, so energy passes from the soup to the metal. This energy in transfer because of a temperature d…

Level
High school
Words
257 words
Questions
2 comp · 1 refl · 1 opin
Language
English
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