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Christopher Columbus Reading Comprehension
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read the several passages about Christopher Columbus. Students answer 4 questions about the text.
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ESL: Reading and Comprehension Passage
In this ESL reading comprehension passage, students read a short passage and complete a set of 2 short answer questions and a questions about locations of things discussed in the paragraph.
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Oldest College Graduate
For this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage about the oldest graduate and answer 8 questions regarding the story.
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Reading: Oldest College Graduate 2007
In this reading for comprehension activity, students read a passage about a ninety-five year old graduating from college. Students choose 8 multiple choice answers based on their reading.
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Reading Comprehension: Colonial America
In this reading for comprehension worksheet, students read a passage about the southern colonies in colonial America and answer questions about it. Students write 4 answers in complete sentences.
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Reading Comprehension: Japan
In this reading for comprehension worksheet, students read a passage about Japanese Kendo and write answers using complete sentences. Students write 3 answers.
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Reading Comprehension: Rainforest Logging
In this reading for understanding worksheet, students read a passage about logging in the rainforest and write answers to comprehensive questions. Students write 4 short answers.
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Making Predictions
Read efficiently and effectively with a passage about making predictions and using headlines and visual aids as clues. After kids read a few paragraphs in the passage, they answer five comprehension questions on the side of the page.
K5 Learning
Apples
Young readers discover the basics of apples in a reading passage. Then they respond to four comprehension questions that ask when? what? and how?.
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Push and Pull
For this comprehension exercise, kids read a physical science article about forces that can move an object, and then answer a series of questions about the passage.
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Inference Practice: Who Am I?
Have a little fun teaching your class about inferences with this short and simple guess who exercise. Provided with five short passages describing different types of people, young learners must read each one and use the included details...
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Responsibilities of Citizenship
Your pupils are all citizens of your classroom. Provide some more instruction on how people can be citizens with the reading passage included here. After reading, learners answer the five related questions.
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Anatomy of a Circle
Make sure your learners are well-versed in circles with a reading passage. Pupils will pick up some important circle-related terms as they read and respond to the five included questions.
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What’s Your Angle?
Start out with angles by asking your pupils to read this reading passage. Class members will learn about degrees, right angles, acute angles, and obtuse angles and then respond to five questions about the text.
K5 Learning
Fire Alarm
Read about the safety of a fire alarm in a five-paragraph reading passage. After reading, pupils respond to four short answer, comprehension questions.
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George Washington and His Hatchet
America has a long history of presidents with an affinity for the truth, from Honest Abe to George Washington and his cherry tree. A short passage features Washington's infamous hatchet and confession, and includes four comprehension...
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Moving On
Read about Daniel Boone and his early years in a new land in Yadkin County, North Carolina. After reading, pupils respond to four comprehension questions that address the how and the why.
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Making Cookies
What kind of cookies is Greg making? Can class members identify the order in which each ingredient is added? After reading a brief passage, pupils respond to four short answer comprehension questions.
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My Little Kitty
Can the small cat catch the rat? Find out in a short passage designed for first graders, complete with four comprehension questions that address details from the text.
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The Story of Regulus
The great Roman general, Regulus, was known for keeping his word. Read about the extent of his honesty in a reading passage about his imprisonment in Carthage, and assess reading skills with four comprehension questions.
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John and Rick Do Not Like Rats
What would you do if you saw a rat? A short reading passage explains what John and Rick do when they see a rat, as well as what they do when it tries to escape.
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Changes
You can't unring a bell, but can you unmelt an ice cube? Readers consider reversible and irreversible changes with a short informational reading passage and accompanying comprehension questions.
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The Bomb
Second graders read a brief passage about King Charles XII of Sweden who lived over 200 years ago. Then, they respond to four short answer questions about what they read.
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Inference Practice 2: Where Am I?
Practice using context clues with a activity about making inferences. Five prompts encourage kids to interpret where each event takes place based on the details in each passage.