Learners read about Liza's first spelling bee before answering six reading comprehension questions. Skills include identifying similarities, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and answer questions based on explicit information in the text.

Concepts

reading comprehension, fiction

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Create a vocabulary worksheet to pair with the reading passage, making a focus on words that are in Liza's spelling bee
• Instruct learners to highlight or underline their answers with in the text to support the answers the wrote
• Encourage readers to write in complete sentences

Classroom Considerations

• Reading passage has 800 words
• Print the pages front to back on single sheets of paper to reduce the number of copies

Pros

• Comes with both multiple choice and short answer questions

Cons

• Does not come with an answer key

Common Core

RL.4.1 RL.4.3 RL.4.4