September Reading Comprehension Nonfiction Passages Color By Comprehension

Grab these 14 NO PREP fall nonfiction reading passages with comprehension activities for your students to practice reading and understanding informational text. Fun September & fall themes will engage readers in this multiple choice test prep style of questions!

Your class will love reading these passages while practicing comprehending the summer facts they learn.

Color By Comprehension is designed as a one page reading passage, a set of multiple choice questions, and a half page coloring sheet that students color based on their answers to the comprehension questions. The passage has 8 multiple choice nonfiction questions.

The small coloring sheet is designed to enhance and engage students in the comprehension questions and not distract from the true purpose of the activity.

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September / Fall information is written in an engaging and easy to read way to ensure that your students have fun while learning!

Skills practiced with comprehension questions:

• text features
• topic & main idea
• text structures
  • cause & effect,
  • compare and contrast
  • problem/ solution
  • description
  • sequencing

• context clues
• how reasons support specific points made in the text
• how specific images contribute to and clarify a text
• main topic of a multi-paragraph text and each paragraph in text

 

September topics included:

• football equipment
• why should kids have recess
• yum or yuck
• grandparents’ day
• amazing apple desserts
• shine bright sunflowers
• life cycle of an apple
• pencil vs. pen
• let’s celebrate Labor Day
• terrific teachers
• talk like a pirate day
• constitution day
• cute koalas
• fall equinox

Perfect to use as:

• standardized test prep
• reading centers
• small group work
• whole group activity
• sub worksheets
• partner work
• early finisher

Black and white versions of the passages are included!

Teacher Reviews

3rd grade teacher Katie said, “Great activity to target a number of goals including main idea and vocabulary.”

2nd grade teacher Stacy said, “My students enjoyed the coloring part of the reading passage as they practiced comprehension skills. Thanks!”