High School Reading Comprehension Resources
Ensure that your high school students have mastered reading comprehension with these supplemental printables, activities, and lessons. From identifying story elements to comprehension questions, there are plenty of fun and educational high school reading comprehension resources to choose from.
Plus, find tips on writing research papers, rubrics for scoring essays, independent reading guides, a glossary of literary terms, cross-curricular activities, and much more!
No matter how skilled your students are at reading comprehension, there's always room for improvement. These high school reading comprehension resources will help your class prepare themselves for difficult standardized tests.
Vocabulary Strategies
Reading Strategies
- Target Reading Skill: Identify the Main Idea
- Target Reading Skill: Identify Supporting Details
- Reading Strategy: Take Notes
- Target Reading Skill: Compare and Contrast
- Target Reading Skill: Sequence
- Target Reading Skill: Relate Cause and Effect
Asking Questions and Making Inferences
- Questions Before, During, and After Reading
- Framework for Questions Before, During, and After Reading
- Asking Questions When Reading
- Inferences
- Activating Prior Knowledge
Elements of a Story
- Five Elements of a Plot
- Story Elements
- Reading Comprehension Sequence Chain
- Steps in a Process
- A Map to Organization
- Scoring Rubric: Literary Analysis/Interpretation
- Story Pyramid
Character Analysis
More High School Reading Comprehension Resources
- "The Monkey's Paw" Short Story & Activities
- Make a Giving Tree
- "The Fox and the Goat": A Lesson on Aesop's Fable
- The Herringbone: Main Idea and Supporting Details
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- Rachel Carson: The Coming of a Silent Spring
- Independent Reading Guide: Short Story
- Problem and Solution 2
Reading comprehension is a crucial skill for high school and beyond. It paves the way for students’ academic success and prepares them for future challenges. With these high school reading comprehension resources, students can improve their skills and gain a deeper understanding of the texts they read.
For more reading comprehension activities, visit our Reading Comprehension hub!
