INFER MAIN IDEA WORKSHEETS with answer keys, READING ACTIVITIES, LESSONS
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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:
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:
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:
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:
FICTION: Letter to Grandmother
Grade 7 Readings Passages with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Prairie Keepers
REALISTIC FICTION: See Our Progress
Grade 8 Readings passages with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
SPEECH: What is Your Own Big Plan? Excerpts from a speech by President Barack Obama in Arlington, Virginia
REALISTIC FICTION: See Our Progress
Grade 8 Readings passages with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
SPEECH: What is Your Own Big Plan? Excerpts from a speech by President Barack Obama in Arlington, Virginia
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