Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Digital Article & Activities - Roller Coasters
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Digital Article and Activities - Roller Coasters: Bring nonfiction into your classroom with this comprehensive digital resource, designed to meet your informational text standards. Use the included Google slides to guide this high-interest nonfiction reading comprehension lesson where students will read an article about one of the longest and fastest roller coasters in the world, the Yukon Striker. Students will then show their comprehension and analysis of the article with a ready-to-use digital response assignment, focusing on finding text evidence, making inferences, using context clues to determine the meaning of vocabulary, evaluating figures of speech, and creative thinking. Also included is a fun and creative digital assignment where students compare their own life to a roller coaster. This nonfiction reading comprehension lesson has everything you need to help your students be stronger at reading and analyzing informational texts.
This is a digital resource and students complete all the work on the computer. This works well with distance learning, 1:1 classrooms, remote teaching, Google Classroom, or online education.
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Included In This Digital Roller Coasters Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Article and Activities Resource:
➡️ Roller Coasters Google Slides: Use this Google Slides presentation to guide you through every element of the lesson. From pre-reading discussion questions to activity prompts and answer keys, each slide is crafted to facilitate engaging classroom discussions. Additionally, the presentation includes a link to a related video and a video writing prompt, enabling students to make meaningful text-to-self connections.
➡️ Roller Coasters Nonfiction Article: Engage your students in an original digital nonfiction article that explores the one of the longest and fastest roller coasters in the world, the Yukon Striker. This informative piece provides a foundation for in-depth discussions, reading comprehension, and critical analysis.
➡️ Roller Coasters Digital Reading Response Assignment: Challenge students to analyze the text and show comprehension with this digital reading response assignment. Designed to meet informational text curriculum standards, this assignment encourages students to analyze and reflect on key concepts like finding text evidence, making inferences, using context clues to determine the meaning of vocabulary, evaluating figures of speech, and creative thinking. A detailed teacher answer key is provided for easy grading and review.
➡️ Life is a Roller Coaster Digital Creative Response Assignment: Foster creativity and critical thinking skills with this engaging digital assignment where students compare their own life to a roller coaster. Life shares many similarities to a ride on a roller coaster. There are climbs, drops, twists, and loops that everyone experiences like a roller coaster in many ways! Students will reflect on their own life and share a moment of ascent (challenge), dive drop (excitement), twist or turn (surprising), and loop-de-loop (big change).
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