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President's Day - Reading Comprehension Worksheets (SAVE 50%)
These Reading Comprehension worksheets are suitable for higher intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The bundle comprises of 3 different texts describing the life and work of 3 world famous presidents: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and José Alberto Mujica Cordano. The text also give some political and historical background information.
After carefully reading each text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, crosswords, True or False exercises, gap filling exercises, matching exercises and participate in an in class discussions. The vocabulary used in the texts is rather advanced and can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes.
The perfect Valentine’s Day - Reading Comprehension - Story Time
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners. The story is about a teenager named May who has moved to a new school and is struggling to make new friends. She also soon realizes that she has feelings for her only friend Jake,
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, a word search, True or False exercises and engage in an in-class discussion about Saint Valentine’s Day. The vocabulary used in the texts is rather advanced and can also be used for IGSCE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes. The handouts can be completed in class or assigned for homework.
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WWII Reading Comprehension Worksheets Bundle (SAVE 50%)
These Reading Comprehension worksheets are suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The texts describes the major historical events which occurred before, during and after WWII.
After carefully reading each text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including word searches, crosswords, comprehension questions, gap filling, definition match and True or False exercises. The texts can be used for vocabulary building purposes. These handouts can be completed in class or assigned for homework.
What Is a Pandemic? - Reading Comprehension / Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the spread of pandemics, how they spread and declared, how governments can impose anti-spread measures and what can be done to help stop a pandemic from spreading.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including true or False exercises, a fun crossword, multiple choice exercises and a fill-in-the-gaps exercise. The text can be used for vocabulary building purposes (medical). This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.
A full answer key is included.
Total number of pages: 7
A Brief History of Pandemics - Reading Comprehension Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the history’s worst pandemics from the Antonine Plague to the HIV pandemic in the late 20th century.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including true or False exercises, a fun crossword, multiple choice exercises and a fill-in-the-gaps exercise. The text can be used for vocabulary building purposes (medical). This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.
A full answer key is included.
Total number of pages: 7
The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic - Reading Comprehension Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the spread of the Spanish Flu / Influenza pandemic of 1918 and why it was the deadliest and strangely most forgotten medical calamity in history.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including true or False exercises, a fun crossword and multiple choice exercises . The text can be used for vocabulary building purposes (medical). This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.
A full answer key is included.
Total number of pages: 5
COVID-19: Why is it so hard to develop a vaccine? - Coronavirus Reading Comprehension text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher intermediate to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores why the world is still in search for a licensed coronavirus vaccine and why the research, development, manufacturing and distribution of a vaccine against COVID-19 is such an arduous process.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including:
a multiple choice exercise
a fill in the gaps exercise on “Covid-19: How to protect yourself and others”
a crossword based on the text
8 comprehension questions
The text can be used for vocabulary building purposes (medical). This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.
A full answer key is included.
Total number of pages: 7
5 Most Uninhabitable Places on Earth - Reading & Comprehension Exercises
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text enumerates the 5 most uninhabitable places on earth.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a true or false exercise, comprehension questions, a fun crossword, a fill in the gaps exercise and a definitions match exercise. 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.
How Do Hurricanes Form? | Reading Comprehension - Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for intermediate to proficient ESL learners or native speakers. The text explores how and why hurricanes are formed.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including:
-comprehension questions
-a word search
a multiple choice exercise
a fun crossword
This worksheet can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.
A full answer key is included.
Total number of pages: 7
The 10 Most Powerful Renewable Energy Sources - Reading Comprehension Text
This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers.
The text explores “The 10 Most Powerful Renewable Energy Sources” starting from the less powerful and concluding with the most powerful and efficient energy source.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a title match, a multiple choice exercise and a fun crossword. 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.
No of pages: 6
Life Aboard a Slave Ship - Reading Comprehension / Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for beginner to proficient ESL learners. A summary of Markus Rediker’s book “The Slave Ship”, the text explores the history of the slave trade across the Middle Passage and the horrors pf life aboard a slave ship.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a True or False exercises, a definitions match, a multiple choice 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: 7
Malcolm X Biography - Black History Reading Comprehension / Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text describes the life and work of black civil rights activist Malcolm X.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: True or False exercises, comprehension questions, a multiple choice exercise and a crossword. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. A full answer key is included,
Total number of pages: 7
THE FIGHT FOR EQUALITY IN THE POST–SLAVERY SOUTH - Reading Comprehension
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text gives an account of the fight against the "separate but equal" doctrine in the post-slavery S.America.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including 10 comprehension questions, 10True or False exercises and an in class discussion. This informational tect can also be used for vocabulary building purposes.
Cyberbullying and Depression - Reading Comprehension Worksheet - Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners. The text discusses cyberbullying and its connection to teenage depression.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions and True or False exercises. The vocabulary used in the texts is rather advanced and can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes. The handouts can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included.
What is the Danse Macabre? - Reading & Comprehension Exercises
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the concept of Danse Macabre and how it was used throughout history.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a true or false exercise, discussion prompts and a fun crossword, a fill in the gaps exercise and a definitions match exercise. 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: 4
SpaceX and How It Has Revolutionised Space Exploration - Reading Comprehension #GoogleExpeditions
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text explores the foundation and work of private aerospace company SpaceX and its impact on space travel.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, True or False, a multiple choice exercise, a fun crossword and a fill in the gaps exercise. 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. Ideally, this handout could be used along a #GoogleExpeditions SpaceX virtual reality trip! A full answer key is included.
Total Number of pages: 8
COVID-19 and Mental Health | Coronavirus Reading Comprehension text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for intermediate to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the effects that Covid-19 and lockdowns can have on mental health and lays out different ways of coping with anxiety and stress while in quarantine.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including:
-7 comprehension questions
-a multiple choice exercise
-a crossword based on the text
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: 6
The History and Love Story of the Taj Mahal - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the history of the world’s most intricate mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including true or False exercises, a fun crossword and a fill in the gaps 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: 6
A Brief History of Science - Reading Comprehension Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the evolution of Science from the Messopotamians to Sir Isaac Newton.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: a title match, comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a definitions match, a multiple choice exercise, a fun crossword and a fill-in-the-gaps exercise . The text can also be used for IGCSE or 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
Advent Sunday - Reading Comprehension Christmas Text / Worksheet
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the traditions and origins of Advent and the days leading up to Christmas.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, True or False exercises and a gap filling exercise. The text can be used for vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. This reading comprehension worksheet can ideally be shortly before Christmas / New Year’s.