These no prep nonfiction and fiction reading passages with comprehension questions and main idea and key detail graphic organizers are perfect for your second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade students! These reading comprehension worksheets will bring a love of learning back to your reading block. Your students will be engaged while learning!
Do your students DREAD having to read nonfiction texts? Do they moan and groan when it's time to read informational text because they find the topics boring or tiresome? These engaging, nonfiction passages about the animals of the Amazon rainforest, Chinese New Year, Presidents' Day and Arctic Animals will have your readers begging for more!
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With This Resource You'll Get:
★ Engaging nonfiction passages
★ Different formats for students response
★ Main idea and key details graphic organizer
★ Text dependent questions
★ Some multiple choice answers
★ Short answer written response
★ Standards-based tasks
How You Can Use This Resource:
✎ whole group
✎ small group
✎ partner work
✎ independent work
✎ homework
✎ literacy centers
✎ animal research
✎ animal research reports
Check Out What Teachers Are Saying:
❤️Brittney S. says, "Great articles and easy prep!"
❤️Ariane O says, "Interesting passages and solid level given the COVID learning loss.
❤️Wendy W says, "I used this with my class when discussing rainforest habitats. They loved learning about the different animals."
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Amazon Rainforest Animals Reading Comprehension Passages
By Basic Biz Teaching
These no prep Amazon rainforest animals nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions and main idea and key detail graphic organizers are perfect for your second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade students! These informational reading comprehension worksheets will bring a love of learning back to your reading block. Your students will be engaged while learning about some wonderful animals who call the Amazon home!
Do you often cringe at how your students struggle to enjoy nonfiction texts? Do your students often become disinterested and bored when reading informational passages? Looking for something engaging and exciting? Look no further!
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This Resource Includes:
→ The Amazon Rainforest
→ Pink River Dolphins
→ Capybara
→ Giant Armadillo
→ Jaguar
→ Macaw
→ Toucan
→ Anaconda
→ Poison Dart Frog
→ Kinkajou
→ Sloth
With This Resource You'll Get:
★ 11 nonfiction passages
★ Two formats for students response
★ Main idea and key details graphic organizer
★ Text dependent questions
★ Multiple choice answers
★ Short answer written response
★ Standards-based tasks
★ ANSWER KEY!
How You Can Use This Resource:
✎ whole group
✎ small group
✎ partner work
✎ independent work
✎ homework
✎ literacy centers
✎ animal research
✎ animal research reports
Check Out What Teachers Are Saying:
❤️Brittney S. says, "Great articles and easy prep!"
❤️Ariane O says, "Interesting passages and solid level given the COVID learning loss.
❤️Wendy W says, "I used this with my class when discussing rainforest habitats. They loved learning about the different animals."
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Nonfiction Passages about Presidents and Inauguration Day
By Basic Biz Teaching
These President's day and inauguration day reading passages have interesting topics for your students to enjoy. These informational nonfiction reading comprehension passages are no prep and will teach your students beyond George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Have you noticed that most presidents' day activities center around Lincoln and Washington? Do you wish there were additional readings that students could do?
This Product Includes:
**✅**What is a President?
✅Becoming President (requirements)
✅Inauguration Day
✅The White House
✅Lincoln Memorial
✅Washington Monument
✅Mount Rushmore
✅Air Force One & Marine One
With This Product You'll Get:
✔ 8 nonfiction passages
✔ Comprehension questions
✔ Text-dependent questions
✔ Standards-based questions
How To Use This Resource:
**►**whole group
►small group
►partner work
►independent work
►homework
►sub plans
►reading centers
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❤️_Cathleen I. says, "_My 3rd graders loved it!!"
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Chinese New Year Reading Comprehension Passages
By Basic Biz Teaching
These Chinese New Year nonfiction reading passages are great for your students to learn about a fun holiday. These engaging and no prep reading passages with comprehension questions are easy to use and helpful when supplementing your curriculum. Kids always enjoy learning about other cultures and will LOVE these holiday informational reading passages and learning how other countries New Year celebrations are similar and different to their own.
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This Resource Includes:
→ KWL chart
→ 12 informational passages
→ answer key
Topics Covered:
⭐ Chinese New Year
⭐ Spring Festival
⭐ Animals of the New Year
⭐ 2021: Year of the Ox
⭐ 2022: Year of the Tiger
⭐ 2023: Year of the Rabbit
⭐ 2024: Year of the Dragon
⭐ What Animal Would You Be?
⭐ Customs and Traditions
⭐ Delicious Food
⭐ The Lantern Festival
⭐ The Dragon Dance
This resource is ideal for:
✎ whole group
✎ small group
✎ morning work
✎ homework
✎ independent work
✎ sub plans
✎ reading centers
✎ social studies
✎ research project
Check Out What Teachers Are Saying:
❤️ Tracy K. says, "These passages have been great follow ups to the in class reading and videos as we learned about the holiday. I really appreciate the range of sub topics (like the Lantern Festival). Great for homework."
❤️ Jennifer G. says, "We started our unit learning about Chinese New Year and these were perfect for my 4th grade students to read and answer. Thank you!"
❤️Emily A. says, "I try to expose my students to all different cultures and this activity was perfect for doing just that."
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Arctic Animals Reading Comprehension Passages
By Basic Biz Teaching
These no prep arctic animal nonfiction and fiction reading passages with comprehension questions and main idea and key detail graphic organizers are perfect for your second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade students! These reading comprehension worksheets will bring a love of learning back to your reading block. Your students will be engaged while learning about some wonderful animals who call the arctic home!
Do you often cringe at how your students struggle to enjoy nonfiction texts? Do your students often become disinterested and bored when reading informational passages? Looking for something engaging and exciting? Look no further!
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This Product Includes:
Nonfiction Topics:
→ Polar Bear
→ Beluga Whale
→ Reindeer
→ Harp Seal
→ Puffin
→ Walrus
→ Arctic Fox
→ Narwhal
Fiction Stories:
→ A Trip to the Aquarium
→ Hero Beluga
→ Mossy the Other Reindeer
With This Product You'll Get:
✔ 8 nonfiction passages
✔ 3 fiction passages
✔ 2 different reading response options for nonfiction passages
✔ Text-dependent questions
✔ Standards-based questions
Skills Covered:
⚡ Main Idea and Key Details
⚡ Using graphic organizers
⚡ Context clues
⚡ Text features
⚡ Point of view
⚡ Idioms
⚡Summarizing
⚡ Moral
⚡ Cause and effect
How To Use This Resource:
**►**whole group
►small group
►partner work
►independent work
►homework
►sub plans
►reading centers
Check out what teachers are saying about this product!
❤️_Shere K says, "_My 3rd daughter is doing distance learning and they are working on non-fiction passages. None of the assigned passages held her attention. But she loved these!! Lots of fun facts about arctic animals. She quickly made her way through them all and asked for more."
❤️_Melody D says, "_Great for reinforcing skills for comprehension of nonfiction text features & fictional stories. My students loved learning about the arctic animals!"
❤️_Emily R says, "_I liked that this resource offered differentiated text options so that my students could all read the same information, but would be appropriately challenged by the text."
❤️_Miss Cassidy's Classroom Resources says_, "We absolutely loved this resource!!! We used it as a winter project, and students put it altogether! They loved learning about different animals!"
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