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5th - 8th Grade Common Core Reading Passages Resources : Page 4

Expand your reader&rsquo;s knowledge of world folklore with this unique and engaging reading comprehension worksheet!&nbsp;

Extended Reading Comprehension: The Boatbuilders of Fiji

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

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Make a Match: Reading Genres

Students read all about seaweed and answer standards-based comprehension questions in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Informational Reading Comprehension: Sustaining the World With Seaweed

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"

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

Quotes as Evidence #1

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

Reading for Fluency: Through the Looking-Glass

Compare and contrast your traits with the character traits of other people.

Comparing My Character Traits

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

Can You Spot the Main Idea?

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

Inferences & Evidence

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.

Find the Theme Flowchart

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Simple Fiction Summary

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

Poetry Guide

Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Informational Reading Comprehension: Biography of Fred Korematsu

Read and analyze a classic example of historical fiction with this adapted excerpt from Mark Twain&rsquo;s <em>The Prince and the Pauper</em>!

Extended Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From The Prince and the Pauper

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

Transition Words for Comparing & Contrasting

Students practice informational reading comprehension skills while learning all about the national artistic tradition of azulejo tiles!

Informational Reading Comprehension: Azulejos: A Tradition of Portugal

Children learn about Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in the United States, in this Finding the Main Idea worksheet.

Finding the Main Idea: Madam C.J. Walker

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech&rsquo;s <em>Walk Two Moons</em> with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Cause and Effect in Walk Two Moons

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

Read about the parts of a plot diagram, then fill out the details of a story that you have recently read in the diagram.

Diagramming the Plot of a Story

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

Hurricane Science

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

History of Television

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

The Secret Garden: Reading Comprehension

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

Fact & Opinion Adjectives

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

Compare the Fairy Tales

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

Informational Reading Comprehension: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Give students a chance to engage with a classic science fiction story while practicing crucial reading comprehension skills!

Extended Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From “Youth” by Isaac Asimov

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

Earthquake Science

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