Reading Skills EAP Worksheets & Games
Essential Reading Skills

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...
Gist and Specific Information Challenge

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...
KWL Chart

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...
Paragraph Prediction

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...
Using Context Clues

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...
Academic Reader's Race

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...
Academic Reading Strategies

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...
Critical Reading Questionnaire

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...