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Mysteries and Wonders Reading Comprehension Passages BUNDLE!

By Mark Aaron

Ideal for independent, student-directed reading comprehension work!Are you dealing with reluctant, unmotivated, or struggling readers in your upper elementary or middle school ELA classroom? Or are you and your students just tired of the typical

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English Language Arts, Informational Text, Close Reading

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4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

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Worksheets, Printables, Independent Work Packet

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RI.3.1, RI.3.6, RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, RI.4.5, RI.4.7, RI.4.9, RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3...

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The Loch Ness Monster: Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #1

By Mark Aaron

This CC-aligned non-fiction printable on the Loch Ness monster can be used in Grades 4-7 depending on your students' ability levels and in a number of ways by teachers (teacher-directed study in class, close reading, independent practice, homework,

Subjects:

Reading, Tools for Common Core, Informational Text

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

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CCSS:

RI.3.1, RI.3.6, RI.4.1, RI.5.8

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The Abominable Snowman: Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #18

By Mark Aaron

The Abominable Snowman, or yeti, is a giant monster said to live in the snowy Himalaya Mountains of China, Nepal, and Tibet. But is this a real living creature or just an imaginary monster of the superstitious local people? This article examines

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

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Worksheets, Activities, Printables

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RI.3.6, RI.4.1, RI.5.4, RI.5.8, RI.6.5

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The Giants of Easter Island: Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #19

By Mark Aaron

Easter Island, first spotted by Dutch admiral Jakob Roggeveen in 1722 on Easter Day, remains one of the most mysterious places on the planet. The small 45-square mile island and its hundreds of carefully carved and mounted monolithic statues have

Subjects:

Tools for Common Core, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

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Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.4.1, RI.4.5, RI.6.3

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Dragons of the World: Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #32

By Mark Aaron

The belief in dragons has been a part of the human experience since approximately 4000 BC. Dragons, both good and evil, have been part of legends and storytelling on every continent on Earth. Although different in important ways, dragons around the

Subjects:

Tools for Common Core, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.4.1, RI.5.4, RI.6.3, RI.6.5

$3.00

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The Bermuda Triangle: Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #2

By Mark Aaron

This Common Core-aligned informational reading and assessment on the Bermuda Triangle can be used in Grades 4-7 depending on your students' ability levels and in a number of ways by teachers (teacher-directed study in class, close reading,

Subjects:

Tools for Common Core, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.5.2, RI.5.4, RI.6.1, RI.6.4, RH.6-8.8

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Atlantis Legend and Fact: Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #14

By Mark Aaron

One of the most famous mysteries in human history, the lost city of Atlantis, is the topic of this informational reading and assessment. The very word “Atlantis” has fired the imaginations of novelists, historians, and common folk since the time of

Subjects:

Tools for Common Core, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.4.1, RI.4.5, RI.5.3, RI.6.5

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The Winchester Mystery House: Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #17

By Mark Aaron

A tribute to eccentricity, guilt, and superstition, the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California has attracted the attention of curious, and fascinated visitors for almost a century. This mystery and wonder passage and assessment tells the

Subjects:

Tools for Common Core, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.4.1, RI.4.3, RI.4.5, RI.5.3

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The Mystery of Amelia Earhart: Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #5

By Mark Aaron

Amelia Earhart was the perhaps the most courageous and celebrated American woman of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Her words and deeds were followed by millions as she set speed and distance records in her airplane. All that ended with her

Subjects:

Tools for Common Core, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.4.5, RI.5.1, RI.5.7, RI.6.1

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Tower of London Ghosts: Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #8

By Mark Aaron

Ghosts have fascinated humans for centuries, with some places said to be more haunted and likely to have ghosts inhabiting them than others. One of the most famous spots for ghost sightings is the eerie and ancient Tower of London, a thousand year

Subjects:

Tools for Common Core, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.4.1, RI.4.3, RI.4.5, RH.6-8.8

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The Great Martian Invasion: Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #15

By Mark Aaron

On the night of October 30, 1938, panic and hysteria swept America’s east coast when an hour-long CBS radio dramatization of the H.G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds convinced many listeners that the earth had been invaded by aliens from Mars.

Subjects:

U.S. History, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.4.1, RI.4.5, RI.5.4

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The Caves of Altamira: Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #7

By Mark Aaron

Our prehistoric ancestors were thought to be significantly less intelligent and artistic than our modern society, but we know now that is not entirely true. This article examines the discovery of the wondrous “Caves of Altamira” in Spain in 1879 and

Subjects:

Tools for Common Core, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.4.5, RI.5.1, RI.5.8, RI.6.5

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The Hindenburg Disaster: Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #35

By Mark Aaron

The Hindenburg was a famous German zeppelin and the last long-distance passenger airship ever produced. Launched in 1936, the craft was a modern technological miracle, silently and swiftly crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Germany to the United

Subjects:

U.S. History, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.4.1, RI.5.1, RI.6.8

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Alchemy (Philosopher's Stone): Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #39

By Mark Aaron

The “elixir of life”, the Philosopher’s Stone, turning lead into gold. These are all practices associated with alchemy. Alchemy was a philosophical and scientific tradition practiced throughout Europe for almost 2,000 years. The mysterious

Subjects:

Science, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

$3.00

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Superstitions: Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #6

By Mark Aaron

Superstitions have been around as long as humans have been on the earth, and there are over 400,000 of them in existence today. This article examines the world of superstitions, explaining and analyzing why we have them, offering common examples and

Subjects:

Tools for Common Core, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.5.1, RI.5.4, RI.6.5, RI.6.6

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Krakatoa Volcano Disaster: Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #16

By Mark Aaron

It was clearly heard 3,000 miles away and exploded with the force of 13,000 atomic bombs. The Krakatoa volcano erupted in Indonesia in 1883 in what was was the loudest, most powerful, and most spectacular natural disaster in human history. It

Subjects:

Science, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.5.4, RI.5.7, RH.6-8.1

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What Are UFOs?: Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #23

By Mark Aaron

UFOs have fascinated people around the world since the famous first sighting of nine “flying saucers” by pilot Kenneth Arnold in 1947. But what are UFOs? Are they aliens placing the Earth under surveillance, elaborate hoaxes and fabrications,

Subjects:

Tools for Common Core, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.5.1, RI.5.4, RI.6.6

$3.00

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The Town the Earth Swallowed: Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #4

By Mark Aaron

Landslides most often occur when a mountain or hill collapses and slides on to a town below. But did you know that landslides can also occur on totally flat ground? This Common Core-aligned informational reading and assessment is about the bizarre

Subjects:

Tools for Common Core, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.4.1, RI.4.5, RI.5.2, RI.5.7, RI.5.8, RI.6.4

$3.00

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Mysterious Places of Fact/Fiction: Reading Comprehension Passages and Assessment

By Mark Aaron

There are places on our planet whose names fire our imagination and inspire widespread speculation and study. This bundle includes five of my popular Mysteries and Wonders passages and assessments on these places. The first two resources focus on

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

$15.00

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The Shroud of Turin: Reading Comprehension Passage and Assessment #28

By Mark Aaron

The Shroud of Turin, a length of linen cloth believed by the faithful to be the burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth, is one of the most investigated and controversial relics in human history. Since the early 1900s, multiple theories have been put

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.4.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.4, RH.6-8.8

$3.00

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Serving the Teachers Pay Teachers community since 2007 with both free and paid resources, I have been an upper elementary and middle school teacher for 35 years and I have loved every minute of it. For me, student engagement, quality content, academic rigor, and a teacher who cares are the keys to all successful classrooms.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I model my lessons on the idea that, more than ever in today's world, the focus and direction has to change in the class on a regular basis. Kids need to work hard, but it has to be work they enjoy doing AND that teaches them the bigger concepts that are so important to know as they move through life. The world is changing and ways of learning and working are too, and we as teachers have to help our students master these changes..

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I've served on so many committees and been involved in so many academic and sports programs that I cannot remember them all. I have been recognized for my service with many of them, but the greatest honor or award for me is when a student from the past contacts me to tell me that I had a positive and lasting impact on their life.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

BA, Political Science. Single and Multiple Subject Teaching Credentials K-12. MA, Humanities

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

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