Nonfiction Reading Passages and Activities

Item description

Improve your students’ reading comprehension with these Nonfiction Reading Comprehension passages and activities! These texts are designed to engage readers and help them develop skills in reading informational text. They are perfect for independent work, shared reading, or small group work, where reading skills can be modeled and practiced.

These four nonfiction articles will help students develop their skills in retrieving information from text with a focus on main ideas and summary. Each passage includes an article and activities for prereading, during reading, and after reading. Activities include organizer, comprehension questions, and a summary writing checklist.

Skills included with each article:

• Prereading activity and article preview
• Reading comprehension questions
• Vocabulary
• Making and confirming predictions
• Making connections
• Identifying main ideas
• Summary writing activity

Synopsis of articles included in this resource:

A Climb to the Top

Mark Wellman lost the use of his legs after a tragic accident while climbing. He had dreams of climbing El Capitan in Yosemite. In this article, students will learn how he overcame his disability and climbed El Capitan.

A Fall from 18,000 Feet

Nicholas Alkemade was a gunner during World War II. The unthinkable happened when his plane was hit by enemy fire. He was forced to jump out of the plane without a parachute from 18,000 feet.

Drowning in the Silo

It was just another day for Jim Rolland when suddenly the soybeans he had been dumping into a railcar stopped flowing. As Jim Rolland tried to fix the issue he found himself trapped in the silo with soybeans filling in around him.

One Handed and Still Winning

Jim Abbot was born with a deformed hand. He grew up with dreams to play baseball in the major leagues. Despite the odds against him, he learned to play baseball and reach his dream.