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Who was Saint Patrick? - Reading Comprehension - Informational Text
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Who was Saint Patrick? - Reading Comprehension - Informational Text

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This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for beginner to proficient ESL learners. The text describes the story of Saint Patrick, the patron Saint of Ireland. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a definitions match, a crossword and a word search exercise. This worksheet can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. Ideally, it could be used on or near Saint Patrick's Day. A full answr key is included.
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco  - Easter Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text
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The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco - Easter Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text

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This Reading Comprehension handout is best suited for upper elementary to higher intermediate ESL learners or native English speakers. The text summarizes the story of the Velveteen rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco. The Velveteen Rabbit chronicles the story of a stuffed rabbit's desire to become real through the love of his owner. After carefully reading the text the students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, True or False, a definitions match, a crossword and a word search exercise. The vocabulary used in the text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. A full answer key is included.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows  - Reading Comprehension Text
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Reading Comprehension Text

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This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text gives a summary of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” by J.K Rowling, the seventh and final novel in the Harry Potter series. After carefully reading the summary of the novel, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions, a definitions match exercise, True or False exercises, a characters match, a word search exercise, a word scramble exercise and a fun 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.
President's Day - Reading Comprehension Worksheets (SAVE 50%)
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President's Day - Reading Comprehension Worksheets (SAVE 50%)

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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.
Alexander the Great Biography - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text
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Alexander the Great Biography - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text

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This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for beginner to proficient ESL learners. The text describes the life and reign of Macedonian King and conqueror Alexander the Great. After carefully reading the text / bio, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including True or False exercises, comprehension questions, a definitions match, a 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. Number of pages: 9
WWII Reading Comprehension Worksheets Bundle (SAVE 50%)
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WWII Reading Comprehension Worksheets Bundle (SAVE 50%)

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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.
The WWII Aryan Master Race Breeding Plan / Hitler's Eugenics - Reading
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The WWII Aryan Master Race Breeding Plan / Hitler's Eugenics - Reading

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This Reading Comprehension worksheet gives a detailed account of Hitler’s “Aryan” race propaganda and his plan to breed a German “Master Race” through positive and negative eugenics programs such as the sterilization of those deemed of “genetically inferior”, his anti-Semetism propaganda, the Lebensborn program and the Germanisation program. 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, True or False exercises, multiple choice exercise , a definitions-match 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. Answer Key included Total number of pages: 7
What Is a Pandemic? - Reading Comprehension / Informational Text
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What Is a Pandemic? - Reading Comprehension / Informational Text

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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
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A Brief History of Pandemics - Reading Comprehension Text

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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
A Brief History of the Gay Rights Movement & LGBT Community  - Reading Comprehension Text
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A Brief History of the Gay Rights Movement & LGBT Community - Reading Comprehension Text

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This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the gay rights movement in the United States from Henry Gerber’s 1924 foundation of the Society for Human Rights to president Trump’s new transgender policy announcement for the military in 2018 (that banned most transgendered people from military service). After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including 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
The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic - Reading Comprehension Informational Text
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The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic - Reading Comprehension Informational Text

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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
How are vaccines made? - Reading Comprehension Informational Text
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How are vaccines made? - Reading Comprehension Informational Text

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This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text provides a description of how vaccines are made, how they work, how they have evolved since the early immunization days and other related concepts such as what is herd immunity. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including true or False exercises, a fun crossword, a definitions match 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: 6
COVID-19: Why is it so hard to develop a vaccine? - Coronavirus Reading Comprehension text
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COVID-19: Why is it so hard to develop a vaccine? - Coronavirus Reading Comprehension text

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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
Life Aboard a Slave Ship  - Reading Comprehension / Informational Text
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Life Aboard a Slave Ship - Reading Comprehension / Informational Text

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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
What Really Happened at Fukushima? -  Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text
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What Really Happened at Fukushima? - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text

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This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the events that occurred before and after the 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, a true or false exercise, a fill in the gaps exercise, an in class discussion 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. Ideally this handout can be used with a #Google Expedition virtual reality trip.
Why Norway Is on Its Way to a Fully Sustainable Future - Reading Comprehension Text / Informational
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Why Norway Is on Its Way to a Fully Sustainable Future - Reading Comprehension Text / Informational

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This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores Norway’s environmental initiatives including its hydro-power stations, solar power technologies, electric car policies, thrift and reuse culture, plogging, seed vault and successful recycling / pant system After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, a definitions match, a multiple choice exercise and a fun crossword. The text can be used for IGCSE and TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key included. Total number of pages: 7
Black History: A History of Juneteenth - Reading Comprehension Text
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Black History: A History of Juneteenth - Reading Comprehension Text

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This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the emergence and history of Juneteenth - the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865. On June 19th the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. The celebration of June 19th was coined “Juneteenth” and grew with more participation from descendants. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a titles match, a True or False Exercise, a definition match,a word search, a multiple choice exercise and a crossword. The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. An ideal activity for June 19th or during Black History month. (celebrated in February in the United States and Canada, and in October for the Netherlands & the United Kingdom) Total number of pages: 7 Answer key included
The Life and Work of Nelson Mandela  - Black History Reading Comprehension / Informational Text
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The Life and Work of Nelson Mandela - Black History Reading Comprehension / Informational Text

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This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text describes the life and work of social rights activist, politician and philanthropist Nelson Mandela - who became South Africa’s first Black president from 1994 to 1999. After becoming involved in the anti-apartheid movement in his 20s, Mandela joined the African National Congress in 1942. For 20 years, he directed a campaign of peaceful, nonviolent defiance against the South African government and its racist policies. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: title match exercises, comprehension questions, a definitions match, 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
Understanding the Black Lives Matter Movement - Reading Comprehension Text
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Understanding the Black Lives Matter Movement - Reading Comprehension Text

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This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores modern-day racial discrimination and social injustice issues that led to the founding of the Black Lives Matter movement as well as what kind of social and political reforms are necessary to finally stop discrimination and bring to account groups and individuals responsible for human rights violations. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, a definition match, multiple choice exercises and a fun crossword. The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. Total number of pages: 7 Answer key included
THE FIGHT FOR EQUALITY IN THE POST–SLAVERY SOUTH - Reading Comprehension
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THE FIGHT FOR EQUALITY IN THE POST–SLAVERY SOUTH - Reading Comprehension

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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.