New Year's Around the World Reading Comprehension - Nonfiction Assignments

New Year's Around the World Reading Comprehension - Nonfiction Assignments: Teach your students about how New Year's is celebrated around the world with these nonfiction articles that share the traditions, practices, and customs of different countries! The countries covered are Romania, China, Scotland, and Spain. Learning about New Year's around the world is an excellent cross-curricular activity as it connects well with social studies! This resource is a fun and engaging way to expose students to other cultures many may not be familiar with. Each text has a reading response assignment that asks students comprehension questions that require text evidence.

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Included In This New Year's Around The World Resource:

➡️ 4 New Year's Around the World Nonfiction Readings: Introduce how New Year's is celebrated in different countries with these four high-interest nonfiction readings. Students will learn about New Year's celebrations in Romania, China, Scotland, and Spain.

➡️ 4 Reading Comprehension Assignments: For each of the non-fiction readings, there is an included reading comprehension assignment with questions that will ensure students have taken in key information for each reading.

➡️ Reading Comprehension Assignments Answer Keys: Use the included teacher answer keys for each set of comprehension questions to make grading a breeze. Answer keys are provided in both print and PowerPoint format.

What Teachers Are Saying About This New Year's Around The World Resource:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is such a great resource for having students learn a sense of culture and diversity. My 8th graders really enjoyed reading about the different cultures and traditions. I used this as a group activity where I had small groups of students read and complete the questions for each country, then they had to do a "mini" presentation and teach the class what they learned. They loved being the teacher.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was great to use as a group activity. Each group member had to be accountable for finding some of the information, and then they had to create a visual presentation summarizing New Year's in whichever country I had given them. I loved it, and they did a great job!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was a perfect assignment/ lesson to have my students do after the winter break! Each article was so interesting. My students didn't mind that they were doing reading comprehension.

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Pair this with our New Year's Reading Mystery

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