New Year Reading Comprehension Passages - Digital New Year Reading Activities

Embrace the New Year with these New Year reading comprehension passages and activities, including a resolution activity...digital + printable!

Note: This resource now includes a digital version for use with Google Slides. To access the digital New Year reading activities, see page 3 of the PDF.

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About the New Year Reading Comprehension Passages & Printables

This reading comprehension resource contains SEVEN New Years-themed reading texts:

• 2 fiction stories
• 3 informational texts
• 1 poem
• 1 play/drama

Each text contains 2-4 printables with reading comprehension questions, reading skill practice, or writing activities that are common core aligned and text dependent.

Choose to use all of the reading comprehension or skill printables or pick and choose the ones that best fit your needs.

Answer keys are included if they are appropriate to the printable.

Nonfiction Text 1: Celebrations Around the World

• Comprehension Questions
• Summarizing
• Writing Prompt: Compare and Contrast

Nonfiction Text 2: New Year’s Superstitions

• Comprehension Questions
• Main Idea and Details

Nonfiction Text 3: Unique New Year’s Traditions

• Comprehension Questions
• Main Idea and Details
• Context Clues
• Writing Prompt: Create a New Tradition

Fiction Story 1: Happy New Year

• Comprehension Questions
• Theme
• Point of View Narrative Writing Prompt

Fiction Story 2: Rescheduled

• Comprehension Questions
• Narrator

Poem: On New Year's Eve

• Analyzing the Speaker of a Poem
• Narrative Point of View Writing Prompt

Play: New Beginnings

• Comprehension Questions
• Problem and Solution
• Theme

New Year's Resolution Activity

• Informational Text
• Resolution Planning Pages

About the New Year Digital Reading Activities

This New Year reading resource is also included in a digital format for use with Google Slides.

The reading passages and activities are exactly the same as the printable version. However, they have been converted to an optimal digital format with text boxes.

Check out the preview video to see the digital New Year reading activities.

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