Family Fiction Reading Comprehension Passages (Set 6)

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Reading Comprehension Passages Fiction Set 6

Overview

Fascinating reading comprehension passages, each with an array of activities included.

Stories are written for the modern classroom and topics are designed to promote enthusiasm from each student.

Each lesson contains a mixed questions section to check understanding, a vocabulary or spelling activity to help remember key language introduced, and a writing exercise.

Full answer keys are provided. For a more detailed overview, check the section under the links at the bottom of this description.

Passages Include

1.Molly's Home Carnival: It looks like Molly will miss the carnival. Until...

2.Big Bro's Big Idea: Noah's big brother does his best to cheer him up.

3.Denny's Car Wash: Denny wants a new game, but does he get the money for it?

4.Tessa's Grandma: Emma misses her grandma, but Tessa has a great idea.

5.Tom's Canadian Mom: The most important person from Canada is...Tom's mom!

6.Big Brother Woes: Big Brother gets to do whatever he wants. It's just not fair!

7.Tell Us a Story, Grandpa: Grandpa's tales are true family treasures.

8.My Weekend: Read about the author's fun weekend in this interesting story.

9.All in the Picture: Learn how the author has changed in the last 22 years.

10.California 'Coaster: Find out how this author spends his summer vacation.

Additional File:

Big Bro's Big Idea: Cork Boat Instructions

PPT Version

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Guided Reading Materials

Reading Passages Overview

Each passage is especially written for Grade 2-3 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 Whereas textbooks can become outdated in no time, any changes to technology or the world will result in updates to this product.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 fivecomprehension, vocabulary and math questions. In addition, key reading strategies are frequently covered including cause & effect, summarizing, compare & contrast and making conclusions.

Three of the questions will be MCQs and two 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 2-3 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.

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.

Additional File

One lesson will have an additional file. This is something fun to extend the lesson with.

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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Answer multiple-choice questions about key details in a short fiction passage.
Put the events of a story into the correct chronological order.
Use context from a passage to determine the meaning of vocabulary words introduced in that lesson.

Teaching tips

Assign one lesson at a time, since each of the ten passages and its question set stands alone as a complete slide deck.
Use the vocabulary slides before the comprehension questions in lessons that include them, since some questions rely on those word meanings.
Check the crossword-puzzle lesson's vocabulary list against its comprehension questions, since the puzzle reinforces the same words.

Skills covered

Reading comprehension — students answer multiple-choice questions about explicit details in each family-themed passage.
Sequencing — one lesson asks students to number story events in the order they happened.
Vocabulary in context — several lessons define words drawn directly from that lesson's passage.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Do all ten lessons follow the same passage-then-questions structure?

Mostly, though the mix varies — most lessons add a vocabulary section, one lesson also includes a crossword puzzle, and one folds a short math problem into its comprehension questions.

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Fiction comprehension
Sequencing events
Vocabulary in context

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Grade 2/3 Links

Fiction Set 1 - Nature

Fiction Set 2 - Animals

Fiction Set 3 - Food

Fiction Set 4 - School

Fiction Set 5 - Friends

Fiction Set 6 - Family

Fiction Set 7 - Sports

Nonfiction Set 1 - Technology

Nonfiction Set 2 - Nutrition