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Comprehensive Nonfiction Reading Questions PrintablesComprehensive Nonfiction Reading Questions Printables
Publisher
Polk Bros Foundation
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Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Duration
30 mins
Instructional Strategy
Independent Practice
Year
2010
Printables

Comprehensive Nonfiction Reading Questions

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Analyze any nonfiction text with the set of questions on this sheet. Class members practice inferring by noting the main idea and purpose of a passage. They also analyze an opinion in the passage and write a brief summary. See the additional materials for an expanded, two-page version of this worksheet.

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Concepts

main ideas, central ideas, fact and opinion, opinions, inferences, reading comprehension, summarizing

Additional Tags

reading comprehension, main idea, purpose of text, fact and opinion, inference, summarize, english language arts

Pros

  • Adaptable to Common Core standards for reading informational texts
  • Can be used with any informational text

Cons

  • Some questions don't have much space for a response; see the two-page version for another option

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