These five reading passages introduce students to first-person narratives through fun, fascinating topics that are guaranteed to hold their interest. Each passage includes five Common Core-aligned questions, testing your students’ ability to:
Use Context Clues • Interpret Figurative Language • Draw Inferences
Recall Supporting Facts • Identify the Main Idea • Analyze Perspective
Passage 1: The Secret Ingredient
Grandma is famous throughout the neighborhood for her delicious cooking. Our narrator suspects that a secret ingredient is the key to her wonderful meals. She watches Grandma carefully as she cooks in order to find out her secret. View Resource…
Passage 2: The Most Important Job
Federico’s Laundromat is a family business, and everyone has to pitch in to keep it running. But the narrator of The Most Important Job doesn’t like his job at the laundromat – that is, until he learns a very important lesson. View Resource…
Passage 3: The Great White
Our narrator is terrified to ride The Great White, her first rollercoaster. She tries to control her emotions as she waits in line, but the closer she gets to the front of the line, the more her fear grows… View Resource…
Passage 4: Imaginary Languages
The narrator of Imaginary Languages has an odd hobby. She invents imaginary languages! But as we will learn, our narrator is not the only one with this strange hobby. View Resource…
Passage 5: Training Daisy
OK, so this one is really a third-person narrative, but we just had to include it anyway because it’s such a student favorite! Skyler and Kenny have worked hard to train their dog Daisy to be a service dog. Today is the day of her big service dog exam. Did she pass? View Resource…
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