Reading Comprehension Nonfiction Set 1 - Birds (PDF)
About This Product
Reading Comprehension Passages Nonfiction Set 1
Overview
No prep reading comprehension lessons, with enjoyable articles and topics.
Each lesson has a blend of post-reading activities. Mixed questions to check overall understanding. Vocabulary activities, plus a writing section.
Lessons also contain a bonus extension exercise at the end. Some you may like, some you may not, either way they are there if you wish to use them. Full answer keys are provided.
Passages Include
1.No Fly Zone: An article on birds that cannot fly.
2.Ostrich: Ostrich eggs are big enough to be used as make shift cups!
3.Chickadees: A small, but interesting bird, common to Canada and Northern U.S.A
4.The Owl: What do you know about this mysterious creature?
5.Turkeys: A popular food at Thanksgiving and Christmas. How do Turkeys live?
6.Oil Spill: How did the Deepwater Horizon oil spill effect local birds?
PDF Version
This is the PDF uneditable version. This download is available in GOOGLE Docs, GOOGLE Forms, GOOGLE Slides. PDF, PPT, WORD.
Grade 4/5 Links
Fiction Set 1 - Animals
Free Supplementary Questions (Coming Soon)
Fiction Set 2 - Family
Free Supplementary Questions (Coming Soon)
Fiction Set 3 - Friends
Free Supplementary Questions (Coming Soon)
Fiction Set 4 - School
Free Supplementary Questions (Coming Soon)
Fiction Set 5 - Sports
Free Supplementary Questions (Coming Soon)
Nonfiction Set 1 - Birds
Free Supplementary Questions (Coming Soon)
Nonfiction Set 2 - Insects
Free Supplementary Questions (Coming Soon)
Nonfiction Set 3 - Mammals
Free Supplementary Questions (Coming Soon)
Nonfiction Set 4 - Nature
Free Supplementary Questions (Coming Soon)
Nonfiction Set 5 - Sea Animals
Free Supplementary Questions (Coming Soon)
Reading Passages Overview
Each passage is especially written for Grade 4-5 students, including key vocabulary required for this age group.
Topics are varied and are accompanied by colorful graphics. Topics are meant to educate, yet entertain the modern student.
These passages are perfect for the modern classroom. Whereas textbooks can become outdated in no time, any changes to technology or the world will result in updates to this product.
Mixed Questions
The mixed questions section of each lesson includes a variation of five comprehension, vocabulary and math questions. In addition, key reading strategies are frequently covered including cause & effect, summarizing, compare & contrast and making conclusions.
Two or three of the questions will be MCQs and other questions will require a written response of some kind.
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 4-5 students. Spelling and vocab activities provide the opportunity to build fluency with these words.
As it can become quite mundane doing the same activities over and over, each lesson in a set will contain a different spelling and vocab activity. Activities include: spelling games, sentence match-ups, mixed-up text and decoding words from the lesson.
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.
As with the spelling/vocab section, writing prompts will vary. This includes research pieces, reading responses, poetry and creative writing prompts.
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.
Just for Fun
Each lesson will have a bonus extension exercise. This is something fun to extend the lesson with. You can find these at the end of each lesson, titled Just for Fun.
Just for Funs are optional. Some you may like, some you may not. Either way, they are there to do with as you wish.
For More Like This
For similar downloads and other frees, do check out Cored Group on TeachSimple.
Resource Tags
0 Reviews
Check out these other great products
