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Ancient Egypt Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions - The Nile River

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Take a trip back in time while improving reading comprehension with our differentiated close reading activities about the river Nile. Now features a full digital set - perfect for Google Classroom and Microsoft OneDrive. This activity pack includes one Grade Five and Six (Year Five and Six) informational non-fiction passage with six pages of unique and engaging text-dependent questions and higher-order thinking tasks.

Gain context with our bonus Ancient Egypt powerpoint and Internet website links.

You can find our FULL Ancient Egypt Reading Comprehension Bundle here.

These activities are great for your guided reading program, or as homework tasks. Integrate these activities into your history and/or social studies projects!

These link closely to the CCSS and New Zealand's Literacy Progressions and Curriculum.

In this print and digital reading pack you will receive:

1. One text - with an extended and scaffold version:

⭐ The River Nile

2. SIX corresponding NO PREP Higher Order Thinking Activities

Each passage features different activities!

  • Remember
  • Understand
  • Apply
  • Analyze/Analyse
  • Evaluate
  • Create

Reading Comprehension Strategies included:

  • Find Specific Details
  • Make Inferences
  • Identify the main idea
  • Vocabulary
  • Summarize/Summarise
  • Synthesise

3. One Graphic Organizer Example

  • Main Idea

4. Teacher Answer Key for applicable questions.

5. Two 'Tips For Use' pages with ways to use this resource in your classroom.

6. Close Reading bookmarks.

7. An additional PowerPoint slideshow with context photos of Ancient Egypt.

***When you download this resource, it comes in both US AND British English spellings and printing sizes.***

What this resource is all about:

The purpose of this resource is to provide ready-to-go non-fiction passages and engaging higher order thinking questions.

This resource is full of exciting, thought-provoking activities to grab your students’ attention AND hold it. The activities begin at the lower levels of Blooms Taxonomy (Remember, Understand, Apply) and move through to the higher levels (Analyze, Evaluate, Create).

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Standards

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Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.
Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.

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