This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the events that led to WWI’s Christmas Truce and the personal recounts of WWI soldiers . After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a true or false exercise, comprehension questions, a definitions match, a fun crossword and a fill in the gaps text that gives Charles Brewer’s personal recount of the WWI Christmas Truce. The text can be used for IGCSE and TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key included. Total number of pages: 6

This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the origins and history of the Olympic Games, from the ancient Olympia to their revival in the late 19th century. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, a gap filling exercise and True or False exercises. The text can be used for vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.

This Reading Comprehension handout is best suited for advanced ESL learners or native English speaking students. Students are introduced to a detailed history of cocoa/chocolate and are then required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, True or False and gap filling exercises. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for IGSCE or IELTS vocabulary building purposes.

This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the civil rights movement - a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. The text recounts the most important events that transpired during the 50s and 60s from the Jim Crow segregation lawsto Bloody Sunday and the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a fill-in the missing titles exercise , comprehension questions, a definition match, multiple choice exercises and a crossword. The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. Total number of pages: 7 Answer key included

NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was formed in 1949 with the aim of acting as a deterrent to the threat of Soviet expansion in Europe after World War II. Its origins, however, go back to 1947 when the United Kingdom and France signed the Treaty of Dunkirk as an alliance to counter the eventuality of a German attack in the aftermath of WWII. This Reading Comprehension handout explores the history of he North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This activity is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions a definitions match a multiple choice exercise a crossword This resource can be used as a mini-lesson, assigned for homework or used to for vocabulary building purposes. Total number of pages: 7 Answer key included

This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for beginner to proficient ESL learners. The text describes the rise and fall of Adolph Hitler during WWII. After carefully reading the text / bio, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, True or False exercises, s multiple choice exercise , a fill-in-the-gaps exercise and a fun crossword. This worksheet can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included. Total number of pages: 9

This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the major historical events which led up to the establishment of the Anti-Semitism movement in Germany and the mass murder of Jews during 1941-1945 which later came to be known as the Holocaust. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a word search, comprehension questions, gap filling, definition match and True or False exercises. The text can be used for vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.

The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1690s. This play summary and Reading Comprehension is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions a characters match a multiple choice exercise a crossword a fill-in-the-gaps exercise This resource can be used as a mini-lesson, assigned for homework, or used for vocabulary-building purposes. Total number of pages: 8 Answer key included

This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the history of the Industrial Revolution in the early 17th century in Britain and the effects of industrialization on the living conditions for the upper and lower working class. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: a match the headings exercise, comprehension questions, True or False exercises and a definitions match exercise. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for IGSCE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included.

This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the spread and devastating effects of the bubonic plague (Black Death) in the mid-1300s in Europe. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including true or False exercises, a fun crossword, a fill in the gaps exercise, a title match exercise and a picture match exercise. The text can be used for vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included. Total number of pages: 8

A reading Comprehension on Martin Luther King’s Life and work as a social activist and leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. There are a lot of comprehension exercises after the text including : True or False, multiple choice, gap filling and finding synonyms exercises. The vocabulary used in the text is quite advanced (higher intermediate to proficient level).

This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the origins of the Israel-Palestine conflict, it’s 100 year old history, the latest escalations and the possibility of holding successful peace talks After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: -comprehension questions a definition match a true or false exercise a multiple choice exercise a fill in the gaps text on the Hamas The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. Total number of pages: 6 Answer key included

This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text gives a summary of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “Animal Farm”. After carefully reading the summary of the novel, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions, True or False exercises, discussion prompts and a fun crossword. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included.

This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the major historical events which occured before, during and after WWI. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a comprehension questions and True or False exercises. The text can be used for vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.

This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text recounts the events that led to the Russian Revolution from the early 1900s to 1923, including the end of the Romanov monarchy and the formation of Lenin’s communist dictatorship and the Soviet Union. The text is suitable for advanced intermediate to proficient ESL learners and native English speakers. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, multiple choice exercise , a definitions-match exercise and a crossword. This worksheet can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included. Answer Key included Total number of pages: 7

Few names have cast more terror into the human imagination than Dracula. The legendary vampire, created by author Bram Stoker in his 1897 novel of the same name, has inspired countless horror movies, television shows and other bloodcurdling tales of vampires. While Dracula is a purely fictional creation however, few people know that Stoker named his infamous character after a real person who happened to also have a horrid taste for blood: Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia or — as he is better known — Vlad the Impaler. This Reading Comprehension mini lesson recounts the story of Vlad III of Wallachia or Vlad the Impaler, the real life character that inspired Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula”. This activity can also be used during Halloween and is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions a definitions match exercise a multiple choice exercise a crossword This handout can be used as a mini-lesson, assigned for homework or used to for vocabulary building purposes. Total number of pages: 7 A full answer key is included

Greek theater had its beginnings in various religious festivals throughout the Greek world honoring the Greek gods. These festivals featured the performance of songs and dances by groups of men and boys called a chorus. Over time, these performances came to include three actors who portrayed individual characters in a story. By the 6th Century BCE, the Greeks were creating special places called theaters, where people could attend such performances. This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text explores the history of theater in ancient Greece. This activity is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions a multiple choice exercise a crossword a definitions match This resource can be used as a mini-lesson, assigned for homework or used for vocabulary building purposes. Total number of pages: 7 Answer key included

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known to his many followers as Mahatma, or “the great-souled one” was the leader of Indian nationalism and was revered for his nonviolent philosophy of passive resistance. This Reading Comprehension handout explores the life, work, and legacy of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. This activity is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions a definitions match a multiple choice exercise a crossword a fill-in-the-gaps exercise This resource can be used as a mini-lesson, assigned for homework, or used for vocabulary-building purposes. Total number of pages: 8 Answer key included

This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text recounts the story of the unlawful arrest of the suffragette protesters in November 14, 1917 and the tortures they had to endure during their overnight imprisonment; a night that later came to be called “The Night of Terror”. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions and True or False exercises. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for IGSCE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.