Quoting Accurately from a Text Reading Comprehension Paired Passages

Are you looking for quoting accurately from a text practice for your Year 5 or 6 pupils? This set of 6 paired non-fiction texts (3 pairs of passages) will help them to practise the tricky skill of providing evidence to support an answer. The resource can be put together as a quoting accurately booklet, with a front cover and step-by-step instruction page. This would make the booklet perfect for homework, a supply teacher set of lessons or any independent learning day.

There are three sets of paired passages:

• Animal adaptations - All About Animal Adaptations and How Have I Adapted Over Time?
• Famous Female Inventors and Margaret’s Diary Entry
• The History of Space Exploration and Come Aboard on a Special Space Journey!

There are then six questions for each of these three paired texts (18 questions in the whole resource). Two questions are about the first text, two are about the second and then two are about the pair of passages together.

Also included is both passages on one sheet of paper. Not only does this mean less photocopying, but also easier comparison by the pupils. This means you can choose how you want the texts, color, black and white, on individual pages or on a page together. There are all options available to you!

An example of the paired questions is: How can you tell that predators are a real threat to wild animals? Answer with evidence from both passages. There is ample space given for pupils’ extended answers for this style of question.

Sample answers are then provided. For open ended questions, where there are several plausible answers, sample answers are given.

What’s included?

• Front cover
• Step-by-step guide: how to quote accurately from the text?
• 6 texts
• 18 quoting accurately questions (six based on each set of paired passages
• Answers

The worksheets have been designed to be used in a booklet format, with front cover included. This means it could easily be given for homework, used in a revision workshop or set for a sub lesson. It can be simply printed, copied and handed out to your class. Alternatively, sheets can be printed individually.

There is a black and white version of everything included too.

Please note that the resource is not editable. This is to protect the fonts and clip art used.