Digital Reading Comprehension Year Long BUNDLE | Nonfiction | Informational Text

If you're looking for a way to help your students develop reading comprehension skills, look no further than these DIGITAL informational close reading passages. The passages are designed to be engaging and fun while also teaching key reading comprehension skills. The focus is on text features, main idea/details, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and vocabulary. And to top it off, the passages cover some of kids' favorite topics - like spiders, bats, apples, amphibians, insects, weather, popcorn, ice cream, holidays, and more!

*Each unit is a little different. The winter passages are self grading multiple choice. The spring passages are open ended questions.

• Created in Google Forms
• Use with Google Drive or Google Classroom
• Self Grading (Multiple Choice Questions for Winter Passages)
• Audio Included (Passages are read to the students. The audio can be deleted before assigned.)

*Audio will be added to the spring passages soon!!

Included in this bundle:

The fall bundle includes open ended responses with audio included.

Fall Set 1 (August/September)

• It’s Beginning to Look Like Fall
• Wonderful Leaves
• Falling Leaves
• Johnny Appleseed: The REAL TRUTH
• Tall Tales
• Apple Life Cycle
• The Parts of an Apple
• Delicious Apples
• Corn
• Rules and Laws

Fall Set 2 (October)

• Bat Bodies
• Bat Senses
• Bat Babies
• A Spider’s Body {diagram}
• Spider Soup
• Spider Webs
• Halloween
• Owls
• Owl Food
• Columbus Day
• The Life Cycle of a Pumpkin {diagram}

Fall Set 3 (November)

There are a few passages in this set that is a little more difficult than sets 1 and 2. Students learn about subheadings, words in bold, diagrams, and they have to infer to answer some of the questions.

• The Sioux Indians
• Sioux Indian Homes
• The Wampanoag Indians
• Wampanoag Summer Homes
• The Chosen One {Pniese}
• The Pilgrims
• Pilgrim Homes
• Pilgrim Children
• Pilgrim Underwear

SET 4 (Election)

• It’s Election Time
• It’s All About the Votes…
• It’s PARTY Time!
• Elephant or Donkey?
• So YOU want to be President?
• Who’s Got the POWER
• The Electoral College
• Add It Up
• The President

*The winter sets are self grading multiple choice questions. Audio is included.

Winter Set 1

• Snow Much FUN
• Types of Snow
• Polar Bear Adaptations
• Penguins
• Penguin Diagram
• Emperor Penguins
• The Grumpy Penguin
• Macaroni Penguin
• Hibernation
• Migration

Winter Set 2

• Valentine’s Day
• Uncle Sam
• Groundhogs
• Stars
• Presidents’ Day
• Tooth Diagram
• Teeth Conditions
• Harriet Tubman
• The Underground Railroad
• Seasons

The spring passages are open ended questions in Google Forms.

Spring Set 1

• Amphibians
• Frog Characteristics
• Frog Life Cycle
• The Beginning of a Chick
• Insect Eyes
• Investigating Light
• Ants
• Monarch Butterflies

Spring Set 2

• Rainbows
• Rain
• Ice Cream in a Bag
• Why does Popcorn Pop?
• Pop That Corn!
• Thoroughbred Horses
• Arabian Horses
• Guinea Pigs
• Jackie Robinson
• Turtles

Spring Set 3

This set is a little more difficult than sets 1 and 2. Students learn about subheadings, words in bold, diagrams, and they have to infer to answer some of the questions.

• Tornadoes
• Dirt
• Why is it Windy at the Beach?
• Hurricanes
• Wind
• Soil Layers – Reading a Diagram
• Clouds
• Cumulus Clouds
• Wind: Moving Air
• The Best Soil
• The Water Cycle

Grades 2-3

These high interest passages were created using the informational reading standards. Students are asked to determine the main idea, find evidence that supports the main idea, use context clues to determine the meaning of various words, create subheadings or discover the importance of the subheadings given, find reasons to support various points given by the author, explain the importance of the diagram or words in bold, and make inferences.

Wonderful Worms

The Water Cycle

The Life Cycle of a Chicken

Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle

Dirt

Clouds

Wonderful Wind

Fascinating Frogs

Insects

Ants