Winter Reading Activities - Nonfiction Passages & Poetry Practice Bundle

Winter can be a tricky time to keep students engaged in learning, but these fun winter reading activities include nonfiction passages and poetry activities that make it easy to keep their attention as you read about snow, ice skating, animal adaptations, and more fascinating winter topics! Students will practice important reading skills like main idea, cause and effect, poetry elements, character traits, figurative language, and more as they enjoy engaging poems and nonfiction passages all about wintertime.

This bundle includes the following resources:

• Winter Nonfiction Reading Passages (plus digital versions)
• Winter Poetry Activities (plus digital versions)

In this bundle, you'll get:

• 5 nonfiction passages
• 5 skill-based graphic organizers
• 5 pages of nonfiction reading check questions
• 1 poetry pre-reading discussion page
• 2 winter poems with analysis activities
• 2 theme in poetry graphic organizers
• Answer keys
• Google & Easel digital versions

Each resource in this bundle includes the following digital versions:

• Google Slides (link in PDF)
• Easel Activity (link in My Purchases)

Students will practice the following reading skills:

• Main idea & supporting details
• Cause & effect
• Compare & contrast
• Figurative language
• Sequencing
• Categorizing
• Character traits
• Imagery
• Theme
• Poetry devices
• Inference
• and more!

These activities work great as skill-based lessons, homework, classwork, partner work, activities for early finishers, and even test review. They also make excellent no-prep sub plans!

I hope your students enjoy these fun winter reading activities as they learn new things about this beautiful season - and strengthen many important nonfiction and poetry reading skills while they're at it!

(Cover clipart by Monarch and Marigold Designs)

Need more nonfiction? Don't miss these middle school resources:

Solar System Nonfiction Bundle

Weather Nonfiction Bundle

Ocean Animals Nonfiction Bundle