HUGE Growing Bundle of High Interest Low Level Reading Comprehension Activities

500 + Growing high interest - low level reading comprehension passages for grades 5-12. These passages are perfect for older struggling readers and are aligned with the middle school and high school standards English Language Arts. All non-fiction / informational Text.

There will be 20-30 new reading passages added several times per year. This bundle is growing. You pay one price and have access in perpetuity. The price of the bundle will go up as I add more sets.

Reading Levels: Set 6 and Set 8 are written at grade level 1 - without sounding like or looking "babyish". Sets 3, 4 and 5 are written at 2nd to low 4th grade level. Set 7 is written at 1st to 2nd grade level. Set 9 is written at 3rd grade level. Set 10 is 2-4 grade level. Set ll is written at grade level 3-4 grade. Sets 11 and 12 are written at grade levels 2-4. They are also super high interest. Superheroes, NFTs, pop culture, social media...more.

Set 14 has been added - Native American Culture, Influencers, Artists, Musicians, Legends and More.

Seventeen sets have been added.

This resource contains multiple versions of each passage.

1. Most Form Fillable PDFs for digital learning centers, distance learning and ease of online assigning and grading.
2. PDFs to print for packets, classroom work or take home.
3. Most have PPTs of files with instructions - there is a PPT Answer Key as well.
4. GOOGLE Slides
5. Some have Easel versions done, but all are Easel compatible.

These are HIGH INTEREST-LOW LEVEL READABILITY PASSAGES – perfect for Distance, Digital, hybrid and Classroom learning. Because students are able to read the passages on their own and complete quick comprehension and standards-based assessments, they are great for centers, homework or distance learning.

The assessments contain three to four multiple-choice questions and/or one or two short constructed-response questions that can be answered and sent to instructors through email or uploaded to any drive.

This resource is perfect for reluctant older readers who need reading practice but are put off by text that looks “young” or “babyish.” The passages revolve around interesting places and people and things from pop culture.

They are research-based and appeal to students in grades 5 through 12.

Readability scores are determined using the Renaissance ATOS calculator. Each passage has a corresponding comprehension assessment.

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***How to access this growing set***

You will need to download this bundle at least monthly to access new passages. I also update all of the included resources periodically. To download updates to this growing bundle, go to your "Purchases" tab on TpT and look for the "Revised Version" notification. That means that new resources have been added to this bundle since you last downloaded! Simply download the product from there and you will see the new additions! You will always have access to all the sets after they have been added to the download.

This resource works well with...

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More About the Resources Included: These High Interest, Low Level reading comprehension and fluency passages are for grades 5-12. They are perfect for older struggling readers and are aligned with the middle school and high school CCSS for English Language Arts. The activities are Native American themed. They work for Native American Heritage Month or anytime.

These are HIGH INTEREST-LOW LEVEL READING COMPREHENSION PASSAGES. There are corresponding fluency passages to most - ALL WILL BE UPDATE WITH FLUENCY PASSAGES BY JANUARY 2023. The research-based strategy of having students read the same passages multiple times to increase both fluency and comprehension – repeated reading – is the framework for these activities.

These high interest low level reading comprehension and fluency passages for older students are perfect for distance, digital, hybrid and classroom learning. The activities also work as bellringers, homework, RTI and for centers. The passages are designed for students to read on their own and complete quick comprehension assessments. The assessments contain four to five multiple-choice questions.

These passages, with reading comprehension assessments and fluency practice, that are high interest but at accessible reading levels. This resource is perfect for reluctant older readers who need reading practice but are put off by text that looks “young” or “babyish.”

The reading techniques used in this resource are research-based and appeal to students in grades 5 through 12. Lexile levels are included.

*Repeated reading research: The idea of repeated reading emerged as a result of the writings of S. Jay Samuels (1979) and Carol Chomsky (1978). They found, in separate studies, that engaging people in repeatedly reading texts aloud improved reading ability. Scientific studies (e.g., LaBerge & Samuels) revealed the importance of “automaticity” of reading. Readers must be able to decode without thinking about decoding. We only have so much thinking space available. The more cognitive space devoted to figuring out words, the less available to grasp the text's meaning. Samuel’s subsequent research in repeated reading proved that RR could help readers to gain automaticity and help readers master the art of reading words accurately and with sufficient speed.

Repeated Reading is a particular method proposed by S. Jay Samuels to develop decoding automaticity with struggling readers. In this approach, students are asked to read aloud short text passages (50-250 words) until they reach a criterion level of success (particular speed and accuracy goals). It is important to keep within this range so that when students reread, memory becomes a useful scaffold. The longer the text, the harder to carry over what was figured out on the first reading. Other research emphasized the importance of using texts that share a lot of vocabulary – these do. That way, when a student improves with one text, it is certain to immediately carry over to the next. The research suggests that three readings should be sufficient. Three readings and it is time to move on to another text. These fluency passages are meant to be read twice. The corresponding comprehension pieces once. That said – there is space for three fluency scores on the fluency pages as some teachers practice fluency separately.