This comprehension passage, "Europe's Catacombs and Rome's Bejeweled Skeletons," will assist students in improving their nonfiction reading skills. It provides comprehension questions for learning to identify text structure, author’s purpose, textual evidence, central idea, and word meaning. It is accompanied by ten embedded academic vocabulary words with definitions, parts of speech, a review, a quiz, and a crossword. The context clues worksheet will assist students in inferring the meanings o