Popular Reading Comprehension Resources, Grades 9-12

Ensure that your high-school students have mastered reading comprehension. Our most popular printables, activities, and lessons on reading comprehension will complement your classroom instruction. From identifying story elements to comprehension questions, there are plenty of fun and educational resources to choose. Find tips on writing research papers, enrichment activities for books, rubrics for scoring assignments and essays, independent reading guides, glossary of literary terms, cross-curricular activities for social studies and science, and much more! No matter how skilled your students are at reading comprehension, there's always room for improvement. These resources will help your class prepare themselves for difficult high school and college courses.

Five Elements of a Story
Life Is Sweet: The Story of Milton Hershey
Questions Before, During, and After Reading
Inferences
Reading Comprehension Sequence Chain
Story Elements
Have a Heart
Story Elements and Story Map
"The Monkey's Paw" Short Story & Activities
Activating Prior Knowledge
Question-Answer Relationships
The Life of Milton Hershey
Who Am I? – Character Description
The Life of Abraham Lincoln -- Reading Comprehension
Number the Stars
Framework for Questions Before, During, and After Reading
The War of 1812
Steps in a Process
Rachel Carson: The Coming of a Silent Spring: Reading Passage
Folk Tale Problem-Solving
Asking Questions When Reading
Research Paper: Take Notes
Martin Luther King Jr. Questions
Honest Abe and George Washington Reading Check
Skill Builders: Word Analogy Questions, Week 1
Scoring Rubric: Literary Analysis/Interpretation
Denotation/Connotation
Touching Spirit Bear and Ghost of Spirit Bear Reading Guide
Problem and Solution 2
Poetic Language in "Memories of Christmas"

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