Winter Reading Comprehension Passages & Activities - PDF & Digital
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- Google Appsâ„¢
- Easel Activity
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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! StudentsPrice $7.20Original Price $9.00Save $1.80
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If your students can't be out in the snow, they can at least read about it! This set of winter reading comprehension passages and nonfiction graphic organizers are the perfect reading activities to celebrate the winter season while sharpening nonfiction skills like main idea, supporting details, sequencing, cause and effect, and more. These no-prep printable and digital reading activities also make excellent sub plans!
(Need more winter reading comprehension? This resource pairs well with my Winter Poetry Activities - grab both seasonal resources in my Winter Reading Comprehension Bundle!)
The five original articles, reading check questions, and graphic organizer worksheets cover vital nonfiction reading skills like sequencing, cause and effect, compare and contrast, describing, summarizing, and citing textual evidence. Each worksheet includes a graphic organizer for reading to help students organize the main ideas and monitor reading comprehension.
Here's a summary of what's included:
- "The Science of Snowflakes" (sequence of events, cause and effect)
- "Mysterious Month Names" (compare and contrast, cause and effect)
- "Migrating Butterflies, Blue-Eyed Reindeer, and Cold Turtles" (summarizing)
- "Sleeping on Ice" (describing, textual evidence)
- "The Origin of Ice Skating" (sequence of events)
- Reading check questions for each
- Graphic organizers for each
- Google Slides version
- Easel Activity
- Answer keys
This resource includes the following digital versions:
- Google Slides (link in PDF)
- Easel Activity (link in My Purchases)
I hope your students enjoy learning fascinating facts about winter (and sharpening their nonfiction reading comprehension skills while they're at it)!
Answer keys are included.
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