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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

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
Text commentaries English

How Map Scale Changes Representation

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

Map scale expresses the relationship between a distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground. A scale of 1:10,000 means that one unit measured on the map represents 10,000 of the same units on the groun…

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

The Missing Garden

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

On Friday afternoon, Maya was helping her school theatre group prepare for its first public performance. Three folding panels, painted to resemble a moonlit garden, stood at the back of the stage. Before leaving, the di…

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

The Door That Would Not Open

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

Leah had promised to open the community centre for the school photography exhibition. By half past eight, the first pictures were hanging straight, the labels were ready and only the entrance lights remained to be switc…

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