Reading Comprehension Passages Nonfiction Set 2 (PDF)
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- Grades 6–7, Middle School, Homeschool Resources
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- 36
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- Answer key
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- ELA, Reading, Reading Comprehension, Common Core, Language Development, Spelling, Vocabulary, Creative Writing, Writing, Resources for Teachers
- Topic
- elementary, reading
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- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets, Assessments, Teacher Tools, Tests, Quizzes and Tests
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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?
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Grade 6/7 Links
Fiction Set 1
Fiction Set 2
Google Forms
Google Slides
PPT
Word
Guided Reading Materials
Nonfiction Set 1
Google Docs
Google Forms
Google Slides
PPT
Word
Guided Reading Materials
Nonfiction Set 2
Google Docs
Google Forms
Google Slides
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 colorful 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.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Answer direct-recall and inferential comprehension questions about a grade-level nonfiction passage.
Determine word meaning from context and definition clues in a topic-specific spelling exercise.
Analyze a text's purpose, such as identifying whether an article is informational or persuasive.
Extend passage content into a short research or creative-writing task connected to the topic.
Teaching tips
Assign one topic per reading block across the week, since each of the six sets (passage, questions, spelling, extension task) is self-contained.
Use the Hoatzin passage's genre-identification question ('Is this article informational or persuasive text? Why?') as a model before assigning genre analysis on the other topics.
Save the research and creative-writing extension tasks for a follow-up lesson if class time is limited during the initial reading block.
Skills covered
Nonfiction reading comprehension — students answer direct-recall and inferential questions grounded in each passage's details.
Context-clue vocabulary — students spell topic-specific words (e.g. 'vibrissae,' 'fermentation') from a definition and partial letters.
Genre/purpose analysis — students judge whether a passage is informational or persuasive and justify the answer.
Cross-curricular writing extension — students research or creatively write in response to passage content (e.g. researching a dinosaur after reading about the Hoatzin's ancestry).
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
What activities accompany each of the six passages?
Every passage pairs with a Mixed Questions comprehension page, a context-clue spelling exercise, and a short research or creative-writing extension task; Red Pandas additionally includes an acrostic poem.
What kinds of comprehension questions are asked across the set?
Most are direct-recall questions, but some require inference (e.g. naming the two predators mentioned for red pandas) or genre analysis (e.g. deciding whether the Hoatzin passage is informational or persuasive text).
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