Close Reading Comprehension Practice Papers (The Cup Cake) 9-12 years
SATs-style close reading comprehension practice test booklet for ages 9-12, built around a short fiction narrative about a girl and her mother buying a cupcake at a coffee shop.
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SATs-style close reading comprehension practice test booklet for ages 9-12, built around a short fiction narrative about a girl and her mother buying a cupcake at a coffee shop.
Read a nonfiction science passage, then answer multiple-choice comprehension questions (including questions that reference a diagram in the lesson) and complete a letter-substitution 'Decode' vocabulary puzzle matching key terms to their definitions
Read a science passage, answer multiple-choice comprehension questions, unscramble/decode vocabulary terms, and complete a spelling/vocabulary activity.
SATs-style close reading comprehension practice test booklet for ages 9-12, built around persuasive/informational texts (a letter from a new head teacher proposing school-day changes, and a parent's angry reply letter to a Member of Parliament).
SATs-style close reading comprehension practice test booklet for ages 9-12, built around a fictional narrative about a visit to an art gallery/time-travel story and a nonfiction biographical text about the painter Monet and Impressionism.
Read a nonfiction passage (including reading a coordinate-grid diagram in Lesson 6), then answer multiple-choice comprehension questions, including a vocabulary-in-context question, a diagram-reading question, and a spelling multiple-choice activity with an answer key that cites the source sentence for each answer
Read a nonfiction science passage presented slide-by-slide, then answer multiple-choice comprehension questions and complete a vocabulary matching/word-building activity
SATs-style close reading comprehension practice test booklet for ages 9-12, built around a mix of fiction (a short story about a girl rescuing her pony from a river) and nonfiction (an informational/advertising text about a dolphin centre).
SATs-style close reading comprehension practice test booklet for ages 9-12, built around a descriptive fiction passage about unwrapping a gift and a related narrative about attending a birthday party ('Don't Ever Say You're Bored').
Read a nonfiction science passage, then answer multiple-choice comprehension questions (including questions that reference a diagram in the lesson) and complete a letter-substitution 'Decode' vocabulary puzzle matching key terms to their definitions
Students read a comprehension passage on living in space, complete hands-on activities, a crossword and word search, and a comprehension quiz.
For each of 17 chapters: complete a pre-chapter vocabulary-guessing activity (write a word, guess its definition from context clues, then compare definitions with classmates in a 'Souvenir Walking Tour' activity before the teacher reveals the real definition); answer a 'detective'-style discussion/comprehension worksheet with…
Read the Pre-Consumer Waste passage, answer reading comprehension questions, complete a related hands-on activity, solve a crossword and word search, and complete a comprehension quiz; check answers against the 'Easy Marking' answer key.
Students read a comprehension passage on blasting off, complete hands-on activities, a crossword and word search, and a comprehension quiz.
Read the reading-comprehension passage on the chapter topic, complete matching/level-based comprehension questions (per the included Bloom's Taxonomy skill chart), complete a crossword and word search using chapter vocabulary, take a comprehension quiz, and complete a bonus research worksheet (e.g., research a WWI soldier…
Read the Pollution passage, answer reading comprehension questions, complete a related hands-on activity, solve a crossword and word search, and complete a comprehension quiz; check answers against the 'Easy Marking' answer key.
Students read a comprehension passage on becoming an astronaut, complete hands-on activities, a crossword and word search, and a comprehension quiz.
Students complete Before-You-Read vocabulary matching, read a comprehension passage on WWII's background and causes, answer embedded and After-You-Read short-answer/creative/evaluative questions, and complete research/extension activities; teachers may also use an assessment rubric and comprehension quiz.
Read the Waste and the Ocean passage, answer reading comprehension questions, complete a related hands-on activity, solve a crossword and word search, and complete a comprehension quiz; check answers against the 'Easy Marking' answer key.
Students read a comprehension passage on a trip to the moon, complete hands-on activities, a crossword and word search, and a comprehension quiz.
Read the reading-comprehension passage on the chapter topic, complete matching/level-based comprehension questions (per the included Bloom's Taxonomy skill chart), complete a crossword and word search using chapter vocabulary, take a comprehension quiz, and complete a bonus research worksheet (e.g., research a WWI soldier…
Read the Post-Consumer Waste passage, answer reading comprehension questions, complete a related hands-on activity, solve a crossword and word search, and complete a comprehension quiz; check answers against the 'Easy Marking' answer key.
Students read a comprehension passage on looking into space, complete hands-on activities, a crossword and word search, and a comprehension quiz.
Read a comprehension passage on Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, answer comprehension questions at multiple Bloom's Taxonomy levels, complete a crossword and word search, take a comprehension quiz, and research a WWI soldier for an extension activity.