Are you looking for ways to incorporate more non-fiction text in your reading block? This set of leveled, informational reading passages and science readers is designed to give your students practice reading high-interest, informational text. Students strengthen their reading comprehension skills through close reading and text-evidence tasks as they read engaging nonfiction articles about plant and animal needs, life cycles, and plant/animal interdependence.
Easy to use for teaching whole groups or small group instruction, these informational reading passages and science readers feature high-interest topics, rich vocabulary, and multiple Lexile levels, offering everything you need to provide differentiated reading activities for a wide range of learners. They’re ideal for adding a reading element to your science block and are the ideal companion to this Plant & Animal Needs and Life Cycles science unit.
Included in this Reading Comprehension Resource:
You’ll receive 48 reading choices in article format, book format, and Google Slides versions for four engaging science topics.
Each resource includes three reading levels (350–450L, 450–550L, and 550–650L), making it easy to meet the needs of every student in your class, whether you’re teaching whole groups, small groups, or need reading intervention materials.
Each leveled passage and reader includes 2 sets of questions. Text-dependent questions for students to locate and color-code evidence in the text, and text structure-based questions that target 9 key learning standards for reading informational text.
The question sets address these standards:
- Ask and answer questions
- Read and comprehend
- Main topic
- Text features
- Images & diagrams
- Text purpose
- Word meanings
- Context clues
- Cause & effect
What’s included:
- 12 printable leveled reading passages
- 12 printable leveled science readers
- Matching digital versions on Google Slides
- 2 sets of comprehension questions per text (text-evidence & text-structure based)
- Detailed teaching procedures, reading level chart, and standards alignment page
Why teachers love them:
- Seamlessly integrates science into your literacy block
- Makes differentiation easy and stress-free
- Keeps all students working on the same skill targets with leveled texts and identical question sets
- Builds deep comprehension with standards-based questions
- Perfect for guided reading, skill groups, early finishers, interventions, or test prep
Titles & topics:
- Carried Away: How Seeds Travel (seed dispersal)
- Animal Pollinators (plant & animal interdependence)
- Teamwork: Partners in the Wild (animals living in groups for survival)
- Plants: Nature’s Best Medicine (humans rely on plants)
Whether you’re introducing new science concepts or reinforcing previously taught content, this resource offers a meaningful way to increase reading comprehension, content understanding, and student engagement—all in one easy-to-use resource.
Check out the preview to see everything included.
Happy teaching!
Linda Kamp
Around the Kampfire
Your students will enjoy these additional nonfiction topics:
Scientists & Science Processes
Plants & Animals & Life Cycles
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