Fall Reading Comprehension Passages | Thanksgiving & Veterans Day | Grades 3-5 | With Answer Keys
Ten original reading passages that follow the season from falling leaves to Thanksgiving dinner. Each passage has numbered paragraphs, three bolded Word Watch words and a full page of text-dependent questions, with a skill tag on every question. Print and go from September through November.
• Science: Why Do Leaves Change Color?, Ready for Winter (migrate, hibernate, adapt)
• Informational: Cranberries: The Fall Fruit That Floats
• History and biography: Veterans Day, The Harvest Feast of 1621, Sarah Josepha Hale
• Realistic fiction: The Great Leaf Pile Plan, Mira and the Crooked Pumpkin, The Thank-You Jar
• Poetry: November Wind, with a figurative language toolbox
• 70 questions: 40 multiple choice and 30 written responses
• Skills: main idea, theme, inference, vocabulary, cause and effect, sequence, figurative language, author’s purpose
• Vocabulary review, 10 writing prompts and 4 graphic organizers
• Teacher guide, skills matrix, CCSS and KS2 links, full answer keys with paragraph evidence
34 pages. US Letter, color or black-and-white friendly. Great for close reading, guided reading, centers, homework and sub plans.
















