Year 7 Reading Comprehension Quiz
Read an original feature article about trees cooling city streets and analyse its ideas, language and purpose.
In this quiz you'll practise:
- Identify the main idea and supporting details of an article
- Draw inferences using evidence from the text
- Use context to understand subject-specific vocabulary
- Analyse an author's purpose and language choices
Check each answer as you go. If you're not sure, you'll get a hint and another try. Every question has an explanation.
About this Year 7 reading comprehension quiz
This free Year 7 reading comprehension quiz gives students an original feature article about how street trees help cool Australian suburbs, followed by questions that build the reading skills in the Australian Curriculum for Year 7 English. Students identify main ideas and supporting details, draw inferences, work out the meaning of subject-specific vocabulary from context, and analyse the author's purpose and persuasive techniques. These skills prepare students for the more complex texts they read across secondary school. Every question includes an explanation that refers back to evidence in the article, so students learn how to support their interpretations.
Reading original passages and answering literal, inferential and vocabulary questions.
- Curriculum
- Australian Curriculum v9.0 — English, Year 7
- Questions
- 10 · about 9 minutes
- Written by
- Success Tutoring Curriculum Team