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5th - 7th Grade Common Core Reading Passages Resources : Page 4

This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

Poetry Guide

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

Superhero Research Project

Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing&nbsp;two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades!&nbsp;

Compare and Contrast in Poetry: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Still will I harvest beauty where it grows"

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

Earthquake Science

Analyze the impact an author&rsquo;s words can have on the meaning and tone of a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott&rsquo;s classic novel <em>Little Women</em>.

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Word Choice in Little Women

Get your feet wet with this one-page reading comprehension worksheet on the challenging sport of artistic swimming!

Informational Reading Comprehension: Artistic Swimming: One Tough Sport

Introduce readers to the poem &ldquo;When I Was One-and-Twenty&rdquo; by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet!&nbsp;

Analyzing Poetry: “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by A.E. Housman

No need to knock on wood, this book just takes a page from common superstitions to give kids great writing practice! They can consider some origins as they read and write about different beliefs.

Superstitions: Ideas for Writing

Use this handy genre guide to teach students about 14 different genres!

Genre Guide & Reading Challenge

Ever wonder how the plasma TV came to be? Read a brief history of the television with this ode to inventors.

History of Television

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Can You Spot the Main Idea?

Learn all about hurricanes in this earth science Q&A.

Hurricane Science

Introduce students to the concept of using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

Quotes as Evidence #1

Introduce readers to the poem &ldquo;O Captain! My Captain!&rdquo; by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!&nbsp;

Analyzing Poetry: “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

Transition Words for Comparing & Contrasting

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

The Secret Garden: Reading Comprehension

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Stories: Extinct Birds

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

The Raven

This workbook takes a snapshot of select heroes from Norse and Irish-Celtic stories: Thor and Cu Chullain. Their exciting deeds give kids noteworthy reading, writing and critical thinking practice.

Men of Myth

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Close Reading Checklist

Students will use an adjective word bank to help them identify statements of fact and opinion.

Fact & Opinion Adjectives

Learn more about the swirling, whirling science behind tornadoes with this wild worksheet.

Tornado Science

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

Fiction Summaries:  Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun language and vocabulary worksheet.

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 2

In this exercise, students will work through a series of steps to identify the theme of a classic story.

Rudyard Kipling: What's the Theme?

In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners compare and contrast two poems, focusing on structure, tone, and literary devices used in each.

Compare and Contrast in Poetry: “January” and “The Wind”

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Inferences & Evidence

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mimic Octopus

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

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