4 free reading resources for Year 7, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
Reading comprehension is about more than finding the answer in the text. Students need to read literally (what does it say?), inferentially (what does it mean?) and evaluatively (what do I think, and why?). Each passage here comes with questions at all three levels and model answers for the open ones.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Students learn to tell similes (comparisons using 'like' or 'as') from metaphors (which say one thing is another), explain what figurative…
A passage with questions.
After a storm, Lena finds a message in a bottle on the beach, and the address inside is one she knows very well. Students track the clues,…
A persuasive speech by a Year 7 student council representative asking the school to start a language program. Students identify the…
A short biography of Jean Batten, the Rotorua-born aviator who in 1936 became the first person to fly solo from England to New Zealand.…
Writing prompts include a model opening and clear success criteria rather than a single 'correct' answer, so parents and teachers can give useful feedback.
Yes. All passages are written by Success Tutoring and checked for age-appropriate vocabulary and sentence length.