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Reading Comprehension Nonfiction Set 3 Sample: All About Horses (PDF)
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Reading Comprehension Nonfiction Set 3 Sample: All About Horses (PDF)
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A first-person nonfiction passage about caring for and riding horses is followed by mixed comprehension questions, a spelling puzzle, a research-writing extension, a drawing game, and a complete answer key.

Author Cored Education

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Tags Elementary, Reading, Comprehension, Vocabulary, Answers, Ccss, Common Core, Spelling, Writing, Passages

Reading Comprehension Passages Fiction Set 2 Sample: Graduation (Word)
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Reading Comprehension Passages Fiction Set 2 Sample: Graduation (Word)
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Matt begrudgingly helps set up his brother Paul's graduation party, then learns Paul spent the morning working to pay for school, in a two-page fiction passage.

Author Cored Education

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Tags Elementary, Reading, Comprehension, Vocabulary, Answers, Ccss, Common Core, Spelling, Writing, Passages

Reading Comprehension Passages Nonfiction Set 2 (Google Forms)

Reading Comprehension Passages Nonfiction Set 2 (Google Forms)
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Reading Comprehension Passages Nonfiction Set 2 Overview Reading comprehension lessons, especially written for Grade 6-7, providing the chance to read interesting and engaging passages. Each lesson has a mix of questions to check understanding, a vocabulary or spelling activity to help remember key language introduced, and a writing exercise. Full answer keys are provided. Passages Include 1.Red Pandas: Red Pandas eat nearly 9,000 pounds of food during their lifetime. 2.Hoatzin: This loud creature has roots stretching back 36 billion years! 3.Moose: These huge creatures are built for the coldest climates in America. 4.Vancouver: Fact: Vancouver was once known as Gastown! 5.Recycling: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle? Read more about that, and more! 6.Atlantic Ocean: Just how important is the Atlantic to countries that border it? Google Forms Version This is the Google Forms editable and fillable/self grading version. This download is available in GOOGLE Docs, GOOGLE Forms, GOOGLE Slides. PDF, PPT, WORD. FULL CATALOG OF DOWNLOAD LINKS HERE Grade 6/7 Links Fiction Set 1 Google Docs Google Forms Google Slides PDF PPT Word Guided Reading Materials Fiction Set 2 Google Docs Google Forms Google Slides PDF PPT Word Guided Reading Materials Nonfiction Set 1 Google Docs Google Forms Google Slides PDF PPT Word Guided Reading Materials Nonfiction Set 2 Google Docs Google Forms Google Slides PDF PPT Word Guided Reading Materials Reading Passages Overview Each passage is especially written for Grade 6/7 students, including key vocabulary required for this age group. Topics are varied and are accompanied by colourful graphics. Topics are meant to educate, yet entertain the modern student. The majority of these short stories contain an important message - a way of developing these young learners further. Mixed Questions The mixed questions section of each lesson includes a variation of five to six comprehension, vocabulary and Math questions. In addition, key reading strategies are frequently covered including cause & effect, summarizing, compare & contrast and making conclusions. Mixed questions require a written response (no MCQ's), full answers and example responses appear at the end of the lesson. Spelling & Vocab Each reading passage contains a variety of words and phrases designed for Grade 6/7 students. Spelling and vocab activities provide the opportunity to build fluency with these words. Activities provide clues to help assist students. Vocabulary activities include extra questions where students must write a synonym, an antonym or a sentence using a certain word. Writing Prompts Writing prompts are designed to continue the theme or lessons learned in the story. Students are persuaded to write in a variety of ways and each prompt includes several cues to help. The main focus in this product, is the student. Prompts will require the student to relate to past experiences and encourage them to discuss feelings and ways to improve. Full Answer Keys Full answer keys and sample responses are provided so no matter how busy you are, you know you're covered! Mixed question answers provide evidence from the text, Math questions contain the relevant workings. Answers are designed for use by the teacher, but also suitable as a handout to the student. For similar downloads and other frees, do check out Cored Group on TeachSimple.

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Tags Elementary, Reading, Comprehension, Vocabulary, Answers, Common Core, Spelling, Writing, Passages, Self Assessment

Responsibility Character Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Responsibility Character Reading Comprehension Worksheet
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The reading develops responsibility through several everyday examples rather than a single rule. Learners answer a mix of closed questions about the passage and an open prompt asking how they can demonstrate the trait in their own lives. This design checks understanding while transferring the idea to personal decision-making. A third page provides completed responses for the text-based questions, while the personal reflection appropriately remains open to individual answers.

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Tags Reading Comprehension, Responsibility Worksheet For Kindergarten, Responsibility Worksheets

Retelling A Story Worksheet

Retelling A Story Worksheet
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Learners choose a story they have read or heard and consider its central topic, important parts, and what they learned. Three labeled sections organize the retelling across beginning, middle, and end, while picture space gives an additional way to represent a memorable event. The open format can accommodate different texts, but every response must preserve the original sequence and emphasize significant rather than incidental details.

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Tags Independent And Guided Reading, Reading Comprehension, Sequencing, Summarizing

Riding the Bus Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Riding the Bus Reading Comprehension Worksheet
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The narrative places a child at the arrival of a large, noisy school bus and describes nervous observations of the driver, steps, seats, and unfamiliar faces. Spotting a friend and sitting together changes the experience from frightening to manageable and enjoyable. Five multiple-choice questions examine the activity, initial feeling, prior experience, familiar person, and final attitude. Page three repeats the questions without a direct answer-key label or visible completion, so no key is claimed.

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Tags Reading Comprehension

Rosa Parks Timeline Cut and Paste

Rosa Parks Timeline Cut and Paste
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Students sequence six key dates in Rosa Parks's life, either by writing each event onto a blank timeline or by cutting and pasting event strips into place, with a completed answer-key page showing the correct order.

Author Sarah Miller Tech

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Tags Rosa Parks, Black History, Seasonal Activities, Timeline Events, Timeline Cut And Paste, Segregation, Reading Comprehension, Partner Work, Kindergarten Timeline Project, Rosa Parks Printable Pictures, Ruby Bridges Timeline Of Important Events, Rosa Parks Events

Science Reading Comprehension Passage 25: Nervous System PDF
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Science Reading Comprehension Passage 25: Nervous System PDF
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An eight-page passage explains the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems before ten multiple-choice questions, a vocabulary match, and an antonym exercise.

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Tags Science, Elementary, Reading, Comprehension, Vocabulary, Answers, Physics, Physical Science, Ccss, Common Core

Science Reading Passage 19 Plant Structure, Function, and Survival PPT
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Science Reading Passage 19 Plant Structure, Function, and Survival PPT
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An informational passage explains how plant roots, leaves, and stems keep a plant alive, then applies a bicycle-parts reasoning analogy to a function-matching chart, comprehension questions, and a vocabulary word-building exercise, all fully answer-keyed.

Author Cored Education

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Tags Science, Elementary, Reading, Comprehension, Vocabulary, Answers, Physics, Physical Science, Ccss, Common Core

Shrek Irony Worksheets – Verbal, Situational, Dramatic

Shrek Irony Worksheets – Verbal, Situational, Dramatic
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Seventeen scenes from Shrek become identify-the-irony practice, with a fully explained answer key sorting each moment into verbal, dramatic, or situational irony.

Author Time Thrifty Teacher

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Tags Shrek, Comprehension, Irony, Movies, Reading, Irony Worksheets Pdf, Irony Worksheet Answers, Movies With Situational Irony, Irony Movie, Movies With Verbal Irony, Types Of Irony Worksheet, Movies With Irony, Dramatic Irony Movies, Irony Movies, Types Of Irony Worksheet Pdf, Teaching Irony Middle School, Irony Graphic Organizer, Irony In Movies, Situational Irony In Movies, Irony Worksheet Pdf, Irony Worksheets, Situational Irony Worksheets

Spider Diagram Template – Reading & Writing Sheet

Spider Diagram Template – Reading & Writing Sheet
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A single spider diagram gives students a central topic circle ringed by eight blank legs for brainstorming related ideas.

Author Elementary Resources 4 U

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Tags Spider Diagram, Reading Diagram, Writing Diagram, Writing Graphic Organizer, Literacy, Brainstorming Chart, Diagramming Worksheets, Simple Spider Diagram, Diagram Worksheet

Stella Louella's Runaway Book Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

Stella Louella's Runaway Book Interactive Read-Aloud Activities
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Teacher guidance recommends selecting activities to match learner needs and spreading the work across a week or longer. Before and during reading, learners make predictions, inspect the cover, and respond to comprehension prompts. After reading, they order important events, compare possible themes, support a choice with text evidence, and consider the author’s message. Additional vocabulary and writing options broaden the study. Exact book passages, assessment items, responses, and personal names are excluded here.

Author Creatively Gifted

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Tags Reading Comprehension, Reading, Upper Elementary Reading, Picture Book , Read-aloud Activities, Interactive Read-aloud Activities, Book Companion, ELAR

The Dangers of Smoking Reading Comprehension Article

The Dangers of Smoking Reading Comprehension Article
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Smoking's science — cigarette ingredients like arsenic and nicotine, lung cancer statistics, secondhand smoke, dopamine-driven addiction, and e-cigarettes — is covered in a cited science article with comprehension questions, extension tasks, and a solutions page.

Author Teach With Fergy

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Tags Smoking, Arsenic, Cigarettes, Reading, Comprehension

The Graveyard Book Novel Study Chapter Quizzes & Writing Activities

The Graveyard Book Novel Study Chapter Quizzes & Writing Activities
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The printable sequence divides the novel into an early-chapter quiz and a later-chapter quiz. Visible items address inference, literary devices, vocabulary in context, symbolism, and comprehension, while a separate journal supports extended written responses. Instructions explain how teachers can copy and adapt digital forms and connect them with the student slideshow. Customer copy does not repeat questions, quotations, character details, answers, or protected story language.

Author Creatively Gifted

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Tags Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book, Comprehension, Essay Questions, Writing Prompts, Chapter Quizzes, Writing, Literary Analysis

The Outsiders Powerpoint, Research Projects, & Note-Taking Sheets

The Outsiders Powerpoint, Research Projects, & Note-Taking Sheets
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The research list offers varied inquiry paths connected with the novel’s 1960s setting and continuing social questions. Each topic supplies an objective, guiding questions, and several possible products such as presentations, comparative analyses, visual collections, or annotated playlists. Opening course slides establish setting and major themes before expanding into historical background. Exact novel quotations, personal names, proprietary prompts, and protected passages are intentionally excluded from this record.

Author Homeschool with Big Easy Homeschooling Mom

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Tags The Outsiders PowerPoint Lesson, The Outsiders ELA Unit, The Outsiders Homeschool Curriculum, S.E. Hinton Unit, Character Analysis, Novel Study, The Outsiders Class Activities, Novel Study Bundle, Literature Projects For High School, Critical Thinking Prompts For The Outsiders

The Rainbow Fish Worksheet

The Rainbow Fish Worksheet
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After learners read the named picture book, the page guides them through a character-and-theme analysis. Questions move from what the central fish says and does when asked to share, to why that reaction occurs and what social consequence follows. Later prompts address attempts to regain friends, emotional change, and the broader lesson. The worksheet requires written explanation from the source story and does not include the book text or a completed response page.

Author Have Fun Teaching

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Tags Independent And Guided Reading, Reading Comprehension, Rainbow Fish Vocabulary, Rainbow Fish Math Activities, Rainbow Words Worksheet

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Play Script

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Play Script
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A full-length play script adapts The Wonderful Wizard of Oz into scenes with dialogue, narrator lines, and stage directions for a class performance.

Author Guinea Pig Education

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Tags Wizard Of Oz, Play Script, Play, Creative Writing, Comprehension, Script For Wizard Of Oz, School, Role Play, Drama, Dialogue

Transitions Practice Worksheets

Transitions Practice Worksheets
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A modeled lightbulb-changing paragraph and a farm-versus-city comparison show time and compare-contrast transition words before students write their own using the same rules.

Author ELA Resources

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Tags Time, Transitions, Compare, Contrast, Writing, Reading, Comprehension, Literacy Station, Small Group

Types of Bridges Worksheet

Types of Bridges Worksheet
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Eight types of bridges are introduced through labeled diagrams and a short informational passage naming a real example of each.

Author Monaco Lane Curriculum for Early Literacy

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Tags Bridges, Transportation, Comprehension, Cross Curricular, Worksheet

Who What When Where Why How Activity

Who What When Where Why How Activity
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Six question words - who, what, where, when, why, and how - drive a card-matching task in which students pair statement cards about a sample story with the question each one answers, then apply the same questions to any informational text.

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Tags Speaking And Listening, Independent And Guided Reading, Reading Comprehension

Word Search: Searching for Othello Characters 2

Word Search: Searching for Othello Characters 2
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The puzzle introduces a letter grid and a fifteen-name list drawn from the play’s cast. Once every character has been located, uncrossed letters are read in order to reveal a quotation and its source, adding a second decoding step to the character search. The structure can reinforce familiarity with the cast while requiring careful letter tracking. Page two is labeled as the solution; its completed grid and hidden quotation are not exposed in the visible product copy.

Author Jay Waggoner

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Tags Shakespeare, Othello, Literature, Characters, Word Search

Word Search: Tragedy of Julius Caesar

Word Search: Tragedy of Julius Caesar
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The student puzzle asks readers to locate sixteen characters associated with the tragedy inside a letter grid. After marking those names, learners arrange the unused letters in sequence to uncover a quotation drawn from another Shakespeare play. That two-stage design combines character review with a hidden-message challenge rather than ending when the word list is found. The third page is explicitly identified as the solution, and its completed grid and quotation are not reproduced here.

Author Jay Waggoner

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Tags Shakespeare, Literature, Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Crossword Puzzles

World War II Reading Packet – Passage & Worksheets

World War II Reading Packet – Passage & Worksheets
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World War II Reading Packet – Passage & Worksheets centres on the war's effects on the United States. After reading the passage, learners answer in complete sentences, separate positive and negative consequences, extract three facts, connect vocabulary with definitions, and respond to selected items based on the text. A second set of pages mirrors those tasks for checking and discussion, including open-response areas where acceptable wording can vary. The mix of factual recall, cause-and-effect analysis, and vocabulary work gives the same reading several distinct comprehension lenses.

Author Sarah Miller Tech

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Tags Graphic Organizers, World War II, Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, New Deal, Ww2 Worksheets