Saturday, February 26, 2022

Infer the Author's Point of View Reading Comprehension Passages

Reading Comprehension Skill: Analyze/Infer the Author's View Point reading Passages PDF 
Grade 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 Worksheet for INFERING the Authors View Point 


Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FABLE: The Boy Who Cried Wolf
POEM: Raindrops

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: The Working Tools of Insects
REALISTIC FICTION: Why Did Mama Change Her Mind?

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Who Am I?
REALISTIC FICTION: Mama's Happy Christmas

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
REALISTIC FICTION: The Lost Dog
SPEECH: President Obama Labor Day Address


Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
HISTORICAL FICTION: Columbus and the Egg
SPEECH: Deval Patrick's Acceptance Speech

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
SPEECH: Deval Patrick's Acceptance Speech
HISTORICAL FICTION: Training for the Presidency

Grade 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 Worksheet for INFERING the Main Idea

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:

NONFICTION: Saving Your Family's Energy Dollar
FICTION: The Ants and the Grasshopper

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Space Food
REALISTIC FICTION: The Challenge

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Animal Studies
REALISTIC FICTION: Mousie

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Plants and Food
FABLE: North American Fable

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Pilsen
REALISTIC FICTION: John's Bright Idea

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: My Job
HISTORICAL FICTION: The Gulls of Salt Lake

INFERENCE SENTENCE STARTERS:
  • I CONCLUDED THAT THE AUTHOR'S VIEWPOINT IS...
  • IT MIGHT BE ABOUT...
  • MY OPINION IS...
  • MY GUESS IS...
  • MY CONCLUSIONS ARE...
  • I DREW ON MY CONCLUSIONS...
  • I NOTICED THIS/THESE IDEAS...
  • I DEDUCED THAT...
  • I FIGURED OUT...
  • MY INTUITION IS...
  • I GLEANED...
  • I REASONED...
  • I CAN INFER THAT...
  • I CAN INFER THAT THE MAIN IDEA IS...
  • THESE IDEAS SUGGEST THE MAIN IDEA IS...
  • I INFERRED...
  • I THINK...
  • I CAN CONCLUDE...
  • THIS CAN/COULD MEAN...
  • THIS IDEA SUPPORTS...
Skill: Identify Fact and Opinion

Grade 3 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
A Very Helpful Resource
Ghana

Grade 4 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
Egypt
Natural Gas: An American Treasure

Grade 5 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
Chicago Changes
Ethiopia

Grade 6 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
Seasons on the Prairie
Zambia

Grade 7 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
Bold Plans, Big Dreams, City Progress
Kenya

Grade 8 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
South Africa
Changing the Ecosystem

Skill: Infer Meaning from Context

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: What is a Fable?
FABLE: The Tortoise and the Hare

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Learning about the Solar System
FICTION: The Astronaut's Diary

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: An American Legacy
HISTORICAL FICTION: His First Dollar

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Prairie Ecology
REALISTIC FICTION: Prairie Summer

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Symbols, Maps and Art--Read to Learn
REALISTIC FICTION: My Painting

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Plants and Places
FICTION: My Career as a Botanist

Skill: Identify/Analyze Sequence

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Chicago Changes
FICTION: Letter to Grandmother

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Staying in Phoenix
FICTION: Living in the Desert

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: American Explorers
FICTION: Traveling with Lewis and Clark

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Traveling West
FICTION: Stopping in Denver

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Today's Telephone
FICTION: Pigeon Express

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Transportation Changes
FICTION: Pilot

Skill: Infer Predictions

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Working at the Hospital
FICTION: My New Brother

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Working at the Television Station
REALISTIC FICTION: We're on the News

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Our Streets
REALISTIC FICTION: Changing Our Street

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Transportation Workers
FICTION: The Technology Trip

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: City Systems
REALISTIC FICTION: 24 Hours

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Chicago High Schools
REALISTIC FICTION: My First Day of High School

Skill: Compare and Contrast

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Chicago's First Leader
HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie Prairie

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Seasons
HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie Prairie

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Reversing the Chicago River
HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie Prairie

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Before Chicago
HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie Prairie

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Learning about the Solar System
HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie Prairie

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Harold Washington's Acceptance Speech
HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie Prairie

Skill: Locate and Classify Information

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Before Chicago
FICTION: Spring is Coming

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:

NONFICTION: Changing the Prairie
REALISTIC FICTION: The Prairie Project

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: From Many Places
REALISTIC FICTION: Our Lemons

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Nutrition Lesson
FICTION: The Food Change

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Breaking the Food Chain
REALISTIC FICTION: Letter from Chicago

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Public Transportation
FICTION: Changing Transportation Routes


Skill: Identify and Infer Character Traits


Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: The Turtle and the Ducks
NONFICTION: The Chicago Fire

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: A Proud Flight
NONFICTION: Pigeon Creek

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
HISTORICAL FICTION: Soldier's Letter
NONFICTION: Valley Forge

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FABLE: The Lion and the Spider
NONFICTION: Maintaining Cultural Continuity

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
HISTORICAL FICTION: The Nominee
NONFICTION: Honest Abe

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Remarks of Senator Barack Obama--Wesleyan University Commencement
FICTION: A New Day

Skill: Analyze/Infer Motive

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Choosing a Park
REALISTIC FICTION: Letter from Chicago

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Prairie Pioneers
FOLKTALE: How the Firefly Got Its Light

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Election Choices
HISTORICAL FICTION: Lincoln's Choice

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: The First Flyers
FICTION: My Cousin's Lesson

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Changing America
REALISTIC FICTION: The Big Game

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: A Chicago Changer
REALISTIC FICTION: The Missing Money

Skill: Analyze/Infer Relationships

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Block Clubs
REALISTIC FICTION: The New Family

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: City Government
REALISTIC FICTION: Community Meeting

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Pioneer Families
REALISTIC FICTION: Pioneer Diary

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: The Captain's Job
FICTION: The Hero

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Changing Chicago
REALISTIC FICTION: My Father's Miracle

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: The Football Team
REALISTIC FICTION: The Quarterback

Skill: Analyze/Infer Mood, Tone

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: The Little Red Hen
REALISTIC FICTION: The New Student

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: The Little Red Hen
REALISTIC FICTION: The History Mystery

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: Nature's Violet Children
FICTION: The Cloud

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: The Elves and the Shoemaker
HISTORICAL FICTION: The First Flag

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
REALISTIC FICTION: My First Baseball Game
REALISTIC FICTION: The Train Ride

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
REALISTIC FICTION: My New President
REALISTIC FICTION: My Sister, the Soldier

Skill: Figure out how the Author Uses Techniques to Communicate

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
POEM: This Little Light of Mine
REALISTIC FICTION: The Train

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: The Different Bird
POEM: We Shall Overcome

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
POEM: His Eye is on the Sparrow

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: Sir Gobble
POEM: I've Got Peace Like a River

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
REALISTIC FICTION: The Red Apples
SPEECH: Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
POETRY: He Had His Dream
HISTORICAL FICTION: Lexington

Skill: Analyze/Infer the Author's Point of View

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FABLE: The Boy Who Cried Wolf
POEM: Raindrops

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: The Working Tools of Insects
REALISTIC FICTION: Why Did Mama Change Her Mind?

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Who Am I?
REALISTIC FICTION: Mama's Happy Christmas

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
REALISTIC FICTION: The Lost Dog
SPEECH: President Obama Labor Day Address

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
HISTORICAL FICTION: Columbus and the Egg
SPEECH: Deval Patrick's Acceptance Speech

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
SPEECH: Deval Patrick's Acceptance Speech
HISTORICAL FICTION: Training for the Presidency

Reading Comprehension Skill: Summarize Fiction and Nonfiction Reading Passages and Worksheets with Answer Keys GRADE 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 pdf

Summarizing Reading Strategies for Reading Comprehension 

Grade 3 Readings Passages with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Animal Studies
REALISTIC FICTION: Community Meeting

Grade 4 Readings Passages with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: A Chicago Changer
REALISTIC FICTION: I Like Plants

Grade 5 Readings Passages with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: City Systems
REALISTIC FICTION: More Trees

Grade 6 Readings Passages with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Prairie Ecology
FICTION: Letter to Grandmother

Grade 7 Readings Passages with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:

Saturday, February 19, 2022

Nonfiction Reading Passages: Identify Fact and Opinion

Grade 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Nonfiction Reading Passages: Identify Fact and Opinion

Grade 3 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
A Very Helpful Resource
Ghana

Grade 4 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
Egypt
Natural Gas: An American Treasure

Grade 5 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
Chicago Changes
Ethiopia

Grade 6 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
Seasons on the Prairie
Zambia

Grade 7 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
Bold Plans, Big Dreams, City Progress
Kenya

Grade 8 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
South Africa
Changing the Ecosystem



Monday, February 14, 2022

Infer Main Idea Worksheets Reading Passages

Grade 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Reading Comprehension Skills passages: Infer the Main Idea free pdf 

INFER MAIN IDEA  WORKSHEETS with answer keys, READING ACTIVITIES, LESSONS

How do you figure out the main idea of a reading passage?
INFER THE MAIN IDEA EXIT TICKET 





























Grade 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 Worksheet for INFERING the Main Idea

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:

NONFICTION: Saving Your Family's Energy Dollar
FICTION: The Ants and the Grasshopper

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Space Food
REALISTIC FICTION: The Challenge

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Animal Studies
REALISTIC FICTION: Mousie

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Plants and Food
FABLE: North American Fable

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Pilsen
REALISTIC FICTION: John's Bright Idea

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: My Job
HISTORICAL FICTION: The Gulls of Salt Lake

INFERENCE SENTENCE STARTERS:
  • I CONCLUDED...
  • IT MIGHT BE ABOUT...
  • MY OPINION IS...
  • MY GUESS IS...
  • MY CONCLUSIONS ARE...
  • I DREW ON MY CONCLUSIONS...
  • I NOTICED THIS/THESE IDEAS...
  • I DEDUCED THAT...
  • I FIGURED OUT...
  • MY INTUITION IS...
  • I GLEANED...
  • I REASONED...
  • I CAN INFER THAT...
  • I CAN INFER THAT THE MAIN IDEA IS...
  • THESE IDEAS SUGGEST THE MAIN IDEA IS...
  • I INFERRED...
  • I THINK...
  • I CAN CONCLUDE...
  • THIS CAN/COULD MEAN...
  • THIS IDEA SUPPORTS...
Skill: Identify Fact and Opinion

Grade 3 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
A Very Helpful Resource
Ghana

Grade 4 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
Egypt
Natural Gas: An American Treasure

Grade 5 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
Chicago Changes
Ethiopia

Grade 6 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
Seasons on the Prairie
Zambia

Grade 7 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
Bold Plans, Big Dreams, City Progress
Kenya

Grade 8 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
South Africa
Changing the Ecosystem

Skill: Infer Meaning from Context

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: What is a Fable?
FABLE: The Tortoise and the Hare

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Learning about the Solar System
FICTION: The Astronaut's Diary

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: An American Legacy
HISTORICAL FICTION: His First Dollar

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Prairie Ecology
REALISTIC FICTION: Prairie Summer

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Symbols, Maps and Art--Read to Learn
REALISTIC FICTION: My Painting

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Plants and Places
FICTION: My Career as a Botanist

Skill: Identify/Analyze Sequence

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Chicago Changes
FICTION: Letter to Grandmother

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Staying in Phoenix
FICTION: Living in the Desert

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: American Explorers
FICTION: Traveling with Lewis and Clark

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Traveling West
FICTION: Stopping in Denver

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Today's Telephone
FICTION: Pigeon Express

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Transportation Changes
FICTION: Pilot

Skill: Infer Predictions

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Working at the Hospital
FICTION: My New Brother

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Working at the Television Station
REALISTIC FICTION: We're on the News

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Our Streets
REALISTIC FICTION: Changing Our Street

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Transportation Workers
FICTION: The Technology Trip

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: City Systems
REALISTIC FICTION: 24 Hours

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Chicago High Schools
REALISTIC FICTION: My First Day of High School

Skill: Compare and Contrast

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Chicago's First Leader
HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie Prairie

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Seasons
HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie Prairie

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Reversing the Chicago River
HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie Prairie

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Before Chicago
HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie Prairie

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Learning about the Solar System
HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie Prairie

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Harold Washington's Acceptance Speech
HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie Prairie

Skill: Locate and Classify Information

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Before Chicago
FICTION: Spring is Coming

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:

NONFICTION: Changing the Prairie
REALISTIC FICTION: The Prairie Project

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: From Many Places
REALISTIC FICTION: Our Lemons

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Nutrition Lesson
FICTION: The Food Change

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Breaking the Food Chain
REALISTIC FICTION: Letter from Chicago

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Public Transportation
FICTION: Changing Transportation Routes


Skill: Identify and Infer Character Traits


Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: The Turtle and the Ducks
NONFICTION: The Chicago Fire

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: A Proud Flight
NONFICTION: Pigeon Creek

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
HISTORICAL FICTION: Soldier's Letter
NONFICTION: Valley Forge

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FABLE: The Lion and the Spider
NONFICTION: Maintaining Cultural Continuity

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
HISTORICAL FICTION: The Nominee
NONFICTION: Honest Abe

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Remarks of Senator Barack Obama--Wesleyan University Commencement
FICTION: A New Day

Skill: Analyze/Infer Motive

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Choosing a Park
REALISTIC FICTION: Letter from Chicago

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Prairie Pioneers
FOLKTALE: How the Firefly Got Its Light

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Election Choices
HISTORICAL FICTION: Lincoln's Choice

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: The First Flyers
FICTION: My Cousin's Lesson

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Changing America
REALISTIC FICTION: The Big Game

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: A Chicago Changer
REALISTIC FICTION: The Missing Money

Skill: Analyze/Infer Relationships

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Block Clubs
REALISTIC FICTION: The New Family

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: City Government
REALISTIC FICTION: Community Meeting

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Pioneer Families
REALISTIC FICTION: Pioneer Diary

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: The Captain's Job
FICTION: The Hero

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Changing Chicago
REALISTIC FICTION: My Father's Miracle

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: The Football Team
REALISTIC FICTION: The Quarterback

Skill: Analyze/Infer Mood, Tone

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: The Little Red Hen
REALISTIC FICTION: The New Student

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: The Little Red Hen
REALISTIC FICTION: The History Mystery

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: Nature's Violet Children
FICTION: The Cloud

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: The Elves and the Shoemaker
HISTORICAL FICTION: The First Flag

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
REALISTIC FICTION: My First Baseball Game
REALISTIC FICTION: The Train Ride

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
REALISTIC FICTION: My New President
REALISTIC FICTION: My Sister, the Soldier

Skill: Figure out how the Author Uses Techniques to Communicate

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
POEM: This Little Light of Mine
REALISTIC FICTION: The Train

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: The Different Bird
POEM: We Shall Overcome

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
POEM: His Eye is on the Sparrow

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: Sir Gobble
POEM: I've Got Peace Like a River

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
REALISTIC FICTION: The Red Apples
SPEECH: Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
POETRY: He Had His Dream
HISTORICAL FICTION: Lexington

Skill: Analyze/Infer the Author's Point of View

Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FABLE: The Boy Who Cried Wolf
POEM: Raindrops

Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: The Working Tools of Insects
REALISTIC FICTION: Why Did Mama Change Her Mind?

Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Who Am I?
REALISTIC FICTION: Mama's Happy Christmas

Grade 6 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
REALISTIC FICTION: The Lost Dog
SPEECH: President Obama Labor Day Address

Grade 7 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
HISTORICAL FICTION: Columbus and the Egg
SPEECH: Deval Patrick's Acceptance Speech

Grade 8 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
SPEECH: Deval Patrick's Acceptance Speech
HISTORICAL FICTION: Training for the Presidency

Reading Comprehension Skill: Summarize Fiction and Nonfiction Reading Passages and Worksheets with Answer Keys GRADE 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 pdf

Summarizing Reading Strategies for Reading Comprehension 

Grade 3 Readings Passages with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Animal Studies
REALISTIC FICTION: Community Meeting

Grade 4 Readings Passages with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: A Chicago Changer
REALISTIC FICTION: I Like Plants

Grade 5 Readings Passages with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: City Systems
REALISTIC FICTION: More Trees

Grade 6 Readings Passages with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Prairie Ecology
FICTION: Letter to Grandmother

Grade 7 Readings Passages with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions: