When you’re trying to find nonfiction reading comprehension worksheets on the internet with which to challenge your high school or college students, you’re frequently out of luck. You’ll encounter printables that are too simple, simple enough, not authoritative enough, or are just too costly to purchase.
Here, please find a whole slew of nonfiction reading understanding worksheets for those teachers who want to help increase their trainees’ proficiency of discovering the essence, identifying author’s function, making inferences, and more. They’re likewise excellent for replacement lesson plans!
Even better? They’re free. Enjoy!
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Getting Away the Endless Adolescence
Copyright: From Escaping the Endless Adolescence by Joseph Allen and Claudia Worrell Allen. Copyright © 2009 by Joseph Allen and Claudia Worrell Allen.
Post Summary: Perry, a fifteen-year-old boy suffering from anorexia, sees a psychologist who tries to get to the root of the kid’s suffering.
Passage Word Count: 725
Format: Passage of text followed by several option concerns
Skills Assessed: discovering the perspective, evaluating author’s function, determining literary devices, understanding vocabulary in context, and fact-finding
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Completion of Overeating
Copyright: From “The End of Overeating” by David Kessler. Copyright © 2009 by David Kessler.
Short article Summary: A reporter and his food market liaison evaluate the refined foods individuals mindlessly consume as the reporter observes a lady consuming a meal at a Chili’s dining establishment.
Passage Word Count: 687
Format: Passage of text followed by several option concerns
Skills Assessed: making inferences, discovering the essence, fact-finding, and understanding vocabulary in context
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Carbohydrate Craze
Copyright: From “Carbohydrate Craze” by Dr. Rubina Gad. Copyright © 2008.
Post Summary: Dr. Rubina Gad decries the popular concept that carbohydrates have no part in a balanced, healthy diet plan.
Passage Word Count: 525
Format: Passage of text followed by multiple choice concerns
Skills Assessed: understanding vocabulary in context, paraphrasing, fact-finding, determining the purpose of a portion of the passage, and making reasonings
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Minimalism in Art and Design
Copyright: VanEenoo, Cedric. “Minimalism in Art and Design: Concept, affects, implications and point of views.” Journal of Fine and Studio Art Vol. 2( 1 ), pp. 7-12, June 2011. Offered online http://www.academicjournals.org/jfsa ISSN 2141-6524 © 2011 Academic Journals
Article Summary: The author describes Minimalism as pure, plain and easy as it connects to art, sculpture, and music.
Passage Word Count: 740
Format: Passage of text followed by multiple choice concerns
Skills Assessed: understanding vocabulary in context, fact-finding, determining the function of a portion of the passage, and making inferences
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Copyright: Douglass, Frederick. “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader.
Short Article Summary: Frederick Douglass’ speech renounces the 4th of July as an affront to the enslaved population.
Passage Word Count: 2,053
Format: Passage of text followed by numerous option questions
Abilities Assessed: figuring out author’s tone, finding the main idea, fact-finding, and identifying author’s purpose
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Sun Yat-sen
Copyright: “The Art and Images of China,” ibiblio catalog, accessed February 24, 2014, http://www.ibiblio.org/catalog/items/show/4418.
Article Summary: A description of the early life and political goals of Sun Yat-sen, the first provisionary president of the Republic of China
Passage Word Count: 1,020
Format: Passage of text followed by numerous option concerns
Skills Assessed: fact-finding and making inferences.
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Gautama Buddha
Copyright: (c) Wells, H. G. A Short History of the World. New york city: The Macmillan business, 1922; Bartleby.com, 2000. www.bartleby.com/86/.
Article Summary: H.G. Wells offers his version of the early days and start of Gautama Buddha.
Passage Word Count: 1,307
Format: Passage of text followed by several option concerns and 1 short essay concern
