Animal ‘Rescue Stories’ Grades 3-5 Reading Passages Bundle

Each of TeachKind’s Rescue Stories reading comprehension worksheets tells a different animal’s tale of transformation and features key vocabulary words and comprehension questions that encourage literal, inferential, and evaluative thinking. These stories were used in a first-of-its-kind study that found that students who read passages with compassion for animals as a central theme performed significantly better on Common Core–aligned questions than students who were given high-interest, non–animal protection texts.

This bundle is ideal for students in grades 3-5 and includes rescue stories about Esther the pig, Christmas the puppy, Jake the turkey, Freddie the cow, Samson the beagle, and a family of rats.