This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the COVID-19 outbreak from late 2019 to early 2020 along with possible origins, symptoms and diagnosis, treatments and prevention measures. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including true or False exercises, a fun crossword, and 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: 5

This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the events that led up to the signing the Declaration of Independence from British rule thereby forming the basis for an independent U.S. government. The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th 1776 (US Independence Day ). After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: multiple choice exercises, True or False exercises, and a fun word search. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. Total no. of pages: 5

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

This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the events that led up to the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, during which up to 300 black Tulsans were murdered by white residents, and a thriving neighbourhood was burned to the ground. The text also gives an account of the aftermath of the Tulsa Massacre, the segregation of the community, the rise of the KKK, the deleted history records and the search for possible mass graves over a century later. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a definitions match , comprehension questions, multiple choice exercises and a crossword. The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. Total number of pages: 7 Answer key included

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

This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores whether protesting and/or rioting can succeed in bringing about social change. From the 2020 George Floyd protests back to Ghandi’s peaceful opposition to British Imperial Rule the text gives an account of the social reforms achieved by violent and non-violent protests and why it is important to focus on the cause of the protests in order to stop social injustice. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, a definition match, multiple choice exercises, a crossword and a fill-in-the-gaps exercise. The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. Total number of pages: 9 Answer key included

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

This Reading Comprehension worksheet gives an account of the post WWI conditions that contributed to the rise of different totalitarian regimes around the world, including Benito Mussolini in Italy, Adolph Hitler in Germany and Joseph Stalin in Russia. 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, a definitions match, multiple choice 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

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

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

This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores what is cultural appropriation, how it’s been used throughout history and why it is a problematic phenomenon that continues to perpetuate racial stereotypes. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a true and false exercise, a multiple choice exercise and a crossword. This worksheet / informational 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: 4

This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the opioid epidemic, how it started, it’s devastating effects, the history of prescribing synthetic pain relief medication and what is being done by the CDC to regulated opioid drug prescription and administration among medical professionals. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, a true and false exercise, a multiple choice exercise and a crossword. This worksheet / informational 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

This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes gives a description of how the immune system works, which organs, cells and proteins constitute the immune system. What is the adaptive and innate immune systems and how they work together to fight disease and keep the body healthy. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a true or false exercise, a multiple choice exercise, a crossword and an independent fill-in-the gaps exercise on “What is Autoimmune Disease?”. This worksheet / informational 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

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

This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the damage that chronic first and second-hand smoking can cause to the lungs, what is COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and how chronic smoking can cause to oxygen deprivation, blood clogging and increase the risk of heart attack, lung infections, pneumonia and lung cancer among others, After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a multiple choice exercise, a definitions match and a crossword. This worksheet / informational 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

This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the history of vaccines from the first inoculation attempts in 16th century China to the experiments of Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur and the foundation of CEPI in 2017. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including true or False exercises, a fun crossword, a multiple choice exercise and an independent fill-in-the gaps exercise on a mini reading on How Vaccines are Made . This worksheet / informational 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

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

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

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