They Did What?!! Part 2 READING COMPREHENSION, Grades 5-10

by Blooming' Noggin

Price: 650 points or $6.5 USD

Subjects: ela,speech,expressiveLanguage,receptiveLanguage,speakingListening,reading,writing

Grades: 0

Description: 5 interactive, high interest reading comprehension passages with questions. The engaging passage topics are about weird and somewhat gross things people have done in history. If you liked “They Did What?!! Part 1, you will love Part 2. Questions include WH questions, Text evidence (students have to drag & drop the highlight onto the text), inferencing, main idea & details, vocabulary, and writing/discussion prompts with scenarios requiring students to use what they learned within the passage to construct a lengthier open-ended response using details from the text. Total of 87 slides. Grades 5-10 The 5 passages are: 1. Mummy Mania: People ate mummies, made paints from ground up mummies, and held mummy unwrapping parties. 2. Tapeworm Diet: Victorian women consumed tapeworms for weight loss. 3. Royal Bum Wiper: It was someone’s job to wipe the king’s bum and tote his portable potty around. 4. Wigged Out: People wore big, fancy, powdered wigs to hide open sores and keep the lice and fleas away. 5. Space Diving: Adrenaline junkies skydived from the edge of space.