Description
Are you looking for engaging reading comprehension practice for each month? These reading passages and questions cover a variety of comprehension skills for upper grades students. There are 4 fiction and 4 nonfiction passages included in each month’s resource. High-interest topics like hurricanes, bones, no-bake cookies, fearless first responders, cakes, fossils, an octopus’ brain, and many more are included!
Do you ever feel like you are just handing your students a passage to work on without actually taking time to teach a specific reading skill?
Look no further for the perfect resource!
Not only does each month include 8 passages, but there are also anchor chart posters that help teach the skills. You can use these as part of your instruction, or print them and put them in student notebooks as a reference tool!
✏️What’s Included for EACH MONTH:✏️
- 8 Reading Passages (4 Fiction, 4 Nonfiction)
- Text-Dependent Comprehension Questions (Multiple Choice & Written Response)
- 8 Anchor Chart Posters to teach the skills of each passage
- 8 Graphic Organizer/Activities
- Paired Passages Graphic Organizer so students can compare facts found in two of the passages
- Answer Keys
Included:
- ⭐August Passages: (Nonfiction skills: Main Idea/Details, Inferences, Chronological Text Structure, Context Clues. Fiction skills: Character Traits/Comparing Characters, Inferences, Story Elements/Plot, Theme/Summarizing)
- ⭐September Passages: (Nonfiction skills: Main Idea/Details, Problem & Solution Text Structure, Point of View, Cause & Effect in a Scientific Text. Fiction skills: Character Traits/Comparing Characters, Theme/Summarizing, Point of View, Theme/Figurative Language)
- ⭐October Passages: (Nonfiction skills: Main Idea/Details, Author’s Point of View, Context Clues, Cause & Effect, Inferences. Fiction skills: Character Traits/Comparing Characters, Point of View, Theme/Summarizing, Inferences.)
- ⭐November Passages: (Nonfiction skills: Main Idea/Details, Problem & Solution Text Structure, Inferences, Cause & Effect in a Scientific Text. Fiction skills: Comparing Stories, Theme/Summarizing, Inferences, Figurative Language)
- ⭐December Passages: (Nonfiction skills: Main Idea/Details, Compare/Contrast Text Structure, Inferences, Cause & Effect in a Scientific Text. Fiction skills: Character Traits, Point of View, Inferences, Theme/Summarizing)
- ⭐January Passages: (Nonfiction skills: Main Idea/Details, Author’s Point of View, Cause & Effect Text Structure, Cause & Effect in a Historic Text. Fiction skills: Compare/Contrast Characters, Compare/Contrast Stories, Point of View, Theme/Summarizing)
- ⭐February Passages: (Nonfiction skills: Main Idea/Details, Author’s Point of View, Cause & Effect in a Scientific Text, Problem & Solution Text Structure. Fiction skills: Story Elements / Plot, Compare/Contrast Stories, Point of View, Theme/Summarizing)
- ⭐March Passages: (Nonfiction skills: Main Idea/Details, Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts, Cause & Effect in a Historic Text, Context Clues. Fiction skills: Story Elements / Plot, Figurative Language, Point of View, Theme/Summarizing)
- ⭐April Passages: (Nonfiction skills: Main Idea/Details, Context Clues, Text Structure Problem / Solution, Text Structure Chronological Order. Fiction skills: Story Elements / Plot, Inferences, Point of View, Theme/Summarizing)
- ⭐May Passages: (Nonfiction skills: Main Idea/Details, Context Clues, Text Structure Problem / Solution, Text Structure Chronological Order. Fiction skills: Story Elements / Plot, Character Traits, Point of View, Theme/Summarizing)
Answer keys are included and black & white versions are provided as well.
