Reading Skills EAP Worksheets and Games

Essential Reading Skills

Intermediate (B1) 50 minutes
EAP Reading Skills Worksheet - Reading Exercises: Skimming, Guessing Vocabulary from Context, Scanning, Reading for Detail

In this informative reading skills worksheet, students learn and practice useful reading skills that include reading for gist, inferring meaning from context, understanding text organisation, and reading for... read more

Gist and Specific Information Challenge

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
EAP Reading Skills Game - Reading: Reading for Gist and Specific Detail, Answering Comprehension Questions

Here is a fun academic reading skills game to help students practice reading for gist and specific information. First, teams discuss the difference between reading for gist and reading for specific info... read more

KWL Chart

Intermediate (B1)
EAP Reading Skills Worksheet - Reading Activity: Brainstorming, Listing, Table Completion

In this useful reading skills activity, students become familiar with KWL, an acronym for Know, Want-to-know, and Learned. It is an effective way to help students read with purpose. KWL is easy to use... read more

Paragraph Prediction

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
EAP Reading Skills Game - Reading and Writing: Making Predictions, Summary Writing - Pair Work

Here is a dynamic reading skills game to develop students' ability to predict content, which aids reading comprehension by activating prior knowledge and connecting what students already know with... read more

Using Context Clues

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
EAP Context Clues Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Identifying, Labelling, Writing Sentences

In this free context clues worksheet, students learn and practice how to use five common context clues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words. To begin, students read an introduction that explains... read more

Academic Reader's Race

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
EAP Reading Skills Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Impromptu Speech, Multiple-Choice Questions, Communicative Practice - Group Work

This engaging reading skills board game helps students review and reinforce their knowledge of skills and strategies that are critical for successful academic reading... read more

Academic Reading Strategies

Upper-intermediate (B2) 40 minutes
EAP Reading Skills Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises: Matching, True or False Questions, Short Answer Questions, Writing a Summary

This handy academic reading strategies worksheet helps to introduce strategies that help students become more effective readers. As a lead-in, students discuss... read more

Critical Reading Questionnaire

Upper-intermediate (B2) 90 minutes
EAP Reading Skills Worksheet - Reading Exercise: Short Answer Questions

This comprehensive critical reading worksheet helps students become familiar with the steps required to critically evaluate a text for use in their studies by answering questions that help determine the appropriateness and... read more