Finding Text Evidence & Reading Comprehension Passages Thank you for downloading this Finding Text Evidence and Making Inferences pack. I hope you find it is useful for your students to help them grow into more confident readers! If you have a moment, I appreciate your feedback. Thanks! -Lauren Make sure you are following Mrs. Thompson’s Treasures on TpT to be notified of new products, sales, and freebies! Sign up for my newsletter to receive more freebies, tips, and fun ideas right to your inbox! Visit my website at www.mrsthompsonstreasures.com and just enter your email in the blue bar at the top of the page! Visit me on the web! TpT g+ ************************************************** Clip art & fonts by: Directions: Students should read the passage 3 times. There are boxes at the end of the passage so they can check off each time they read it. There are 3 text evidence questions for each passage where the students use crayons or colored pencils to underline where the answers are found in the text. There is one inference question that is not directly answered in the text. Students will use the clues from the text to make an educated guess. Finally, there is a response question to help students with text to self connection. Check off each time you read. Interactive They have wings but text they cannot fly. Text to self I would not want a evidence connections questions Penguins eat fish, penguin for a pet shrimp, and krill. because it would have to live in our a colony freezer. A predator eats other animals. Use context clues *The “Penguins” passage is used for an example only. It is not included in the fall pack. 1. Pumpkins 2. Bats 3. Sammy the Spider 4. The Desert 5. Fred the Fireman 6. Fall Festival 7. The Scarecrow 8. Trixie Turkey 9. Christopher Columbus 10. Thanksgiving Traditions 11. Trey’s Sport 12. Wright Brothers Day 13. Rudy the Reindeer 14. Gingerbread 15. Christmas Around the World Read the passage 3 times. Name _______________ Answer the questions below. Underline your evidence. Pumpkins Many people think a pumpkin is a vegetable, but it is not. It is a fruit! It grows on a vine and has seeds inside. It takes about 100 days for a seed to grow into a pumpkin. Pumpkins can be as small as one pound, or as big as 1,000 pounds! Pumpkins are grown everywhere in the world except Antarctica. Pumpkins are used for many things. Some people use them as decorations in the fall. Pumpkins are cleaned out and carved into jack-o-lanterns for Halloween. For Thanksgiving, many people use pumpkins to make pie, bread, or soup. You can even bake pumpkin seeds in the oven for a tasty snack! How long does it take for a pumpkin to grow? What do you like to do ____________________________ with a pumpkin? ____________________________ _________ How big can a pumpkin be? _____________________________ _________ _____________________________ _________ What is one way that people use pumpkins? _________ _____________________________ _________ _____________________________ Make an inference. Why do pumpkins not grow in Circle words or phrases in the Antarctica? passage that gave you a clue. ______________________________ ______________________________ 1 ©2015 Lauren Thompson www.mrsthompsonstreasures.com Name _______________ Read the passage 3 times. Answer the questions below. Underline your evidence. Bats Bats are very special animals. They can fly like birds, but they are mammals! In fact, they are the only mammals that can fly. They do not have feathers like birds, but they do have fur. Their wings are actually arms and fingers covered with skin. There are about 1,000 different kinds of bats in the world. They live together in groups called colonies. The biggest bat is called the Samoan flying fox. It has a wingspan of 79 inches. Most bats eat insects, but some kinds also eat fruit, nectar, fish, or blood. Bats are nocturnal, so they sleep during the day, and are awake at night. They use something called echolocation to help them see in the dark. They make clicking noises that bounce off objects and echo back. This tells the bat where things are. Many people think bats are creepy, but they are actually very useful animals. One bat can catch and eat up to 600 mosquitos in one hour! What is one way bats are different Would you rather find a than birds? ____________________ bat or a mosquito in your ____________________________ house? Why? What is a group of bats called? _________ ____________________________ _________ ____________________________ _________ How do bats see in the dark ?_______ _________ _____________________________ _________ _____________________________ Make an inference. Circle the things a bat might eat: Circle words or phrases in the orange bird grasshopper passage that gave you a clue. ladybug banana rabbit 2 © Lauren Thompson www.mrsthompsonstreasures.com Name _______________ Read the passage 3 times. Answer the questions below. Underline your evidence. Sammy the Spider Sammy the spider crawled slowly up the tree. He had been trying all morning to spin a beautiful web for his mother. Her birthday was tomorrow and he wanted to make her something special. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t get it right. The first time he tried, the web was too crooked. The next time he tried, it was too tiny. The last time he tried, it got all tangled. “I give up,” Sammy cried. “I’ll never make the perfect web for my mother’s present.” Just then, Sammy’s friend, Willy the Worm, came inching by. “What’s wrong, Sammy?” he asked. “I can’t make the perfect web for my mother’s birthday present,” Sammy replied. “That’s okay!” Willy said. “I think she will like any present that you give her because she loves you.” “You’re right!” Sammy said. He tried one more time to spin a web for his mom. He made the words “I LOVE YOU” in the middle of it. It was not perfect, but it was the perfect gift for his mom. What is Sammy trying to do? If you could give any gift ___________________________ to your mom, what would ____________________________ it be? Why does Sammy want to give up? _________ _____________________________ _________ _____________________________ _________ What advice did Willy give to Sammy? _________ ____________________________ _________ ____________________________ Make an inference. How did Willy know something Circle words or phrases in the was wrong? __________________________ passage that gave you a clue. ___________________________________ 3 ©2015 Lauren Thompson www.mrsthompsonstreasures.com Read the passage 3 times. Name _______________ Answer the questions below. Underline your evidence. The Desert Deserts cover about 30 percent of the land on the earth. The largest desert on earth is the Sahara, which is in Africa. Many people think that a desert is always hot, but some deserts can also be cold. All deserts get less than 10 inches of rain each year, so they are very dry. Because there is not much water, only special plants and animals can survive in the desert. A cactus has big, shallow, roots to collect water and sharp needles to keep animals away. Lizards, coyotes, snakes, and camels are some of the animals that live in the desert. The animals are usually active at night, when the weather is cooler, and they rest in the shade during the day. There is even a type of fish, called lungfish, that can live in the desert by burrowing down in wet mud! What is true of all deserts? Would you rather live in a ____________________________ cold desert or a hot ____________________________ desert? Why? How does a cactus protect itself from _________ being eaten by animals?_____________ _____________________________ _________ How does a lungfish survive in the _________ desert?_______________________ _________ ____________________________ _________ Make an inference. Circle words or phrases in the What does burrowing mean? passage that gave you a clue. ____________________________ 4 ©2015 Lauren Thompson www.mrsthompsonstreasures.com Name _______________ Read the passage 3 times. Answer the questions below. Underline your evidence. Fred the Fireman All the students in Miss Lott’s class were very excited. A real fireman was coming to visit them and teach about fire safety! Fred the fireman came to their class after lunch. He was wearing his hat and black fireman uniform. He taught the class all about fire safety and told them to remember the “Three Ps – Prevent, Plan, and Practice.” To prevent means to keep fire from starting in the first place. Fred told them to never play with matches, and to never cook alone without an adult to help. He said it is important to have a plan if your house ever catches on fire. Make a plan with your family of how you will get out and where you will meet. Finally, Fred taught them that it is important to practice what to do if they smell smoke or if their house catches on fire. When Fred finished teaching, they all practiced what to do if their clothes ever caught on fire. First you stop, then you drop to the floor, and roll around to put out the fire! Fred gave them all a sticker for being such great listeners! Whose class had a visit from the Would you like to be a fireman?_______________________ firefighter? Why or why _____________________________ not?_______ What are the 3 Ps? _________ _____________________________ _________ _____________________________ _________ What should you do if your clothes catch on fire? ________________________ _________ ______________________________ _________ Make an inference. Did Miss Lott’s class behave Circle words or phrases in the well when Fireman Fred was teaching? passage that gave you a clue. _________________ 5 ©2015 Lauren Thompson www.mrsthompsonstreasures.com Read the passage 3 times.