Summer June Reading Comprehension Passages

Description

Get ready to build literacy skills this June in a way that’s FUN for students and EASY to prep! These June reading comprehension passages are part of a monthly resource to teach and review essential reading and writing skills!

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This resource includes FOUR original, high-interest reading passages with a heavy focus on a specific reading skill. Two texts are fiction, and two are informational. (One of the fiction passages is an original poem!)

Each original text includes FIVE days of reading tasks (for a total of 20 days!) 

1. Day One – Read, annotate, and evaluate a text
2. Day Two – Graphic organizer that focuses on the skill of the week
3. Day Three – Using pictures to teach and review the reading skill
4. Day Four – Read and respond to questions
5. Day Five – Writing prompts

Each page has been created with a clean design and easy-to-read fonts so it’s simple to use!

June Literacy Skill of the Week Covers the Following Skills:

• Reading Skill Focus: Determining Relevant Information
• Grammar Focus: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs
• Poetry Focus – Symbolism and Allusion in Poetry
• Writing Focus: Creative Writing

*Use any combination of days to fit your needs!*

NOTE: This resource also reviews the skills covered in August through May but is suitable to start now.

June Skills, Story, and Passage Topics:

• International Mud Day (Fiction ) – Main idea, elements of creative writing
• World Beatles Day (Fiction Poetry) – Oral reading fluency, theme, allusion and symbolism in poetry
• Helen Keller (Nonfiction) – Author’s purpose and perspective, determining relevant information
• Fireworks Safety Month (Nonfiction) – Main idea, context clues, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs,

Each page has been created with a clean design and easy-to-read fonts to make them more accessible to all students.

Once a skill has been introduced, it will be reviewed periodically throughout subsequent months and weeks as well.

Literacy Skill of the Week is perfect for…

• Weekly instruction or practice
• Weekly homework
• Center work
• Morning work
• Intervention
• Test Prep
• Spiral Review

Monthly Topics: While each month’s passage and story topics revolve loosely around the given season, most passages and stories can be used throughout the year for extra practice!

Need DIGITAL? We’ve got you covered! A digital, interactive, version is also included! It was created in Google Slides and is ready for Google Classroom.

Answer Keys Included

Grade Levels: This resource is best for grades 4 and 5.

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