Other Skills: Character Traits Compare and Contrast Context Clues Fact and Opinion Figurative Language Main / Central Idea Point of View Rhythm & Rhyme Story Elements Summary Symbolism Theme
Below you'll find 10th grade reading comprehension passages along with questions and answers. These printable worksheet activities include original excerpts from short stories and books as well as high-interest informational topics.
Students will read a passage about the tricoteuses, the knitting women who sat near the guillotine during the French Revolution...
by Abraham Lincoln
In the midst of the Civil War, President Abraham Lin...
by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was a master of creating tension in ...
by Baroness Orczy from The Scarlet Pimpernel
Chapter I passage: The adventure novel “The Scarlet ...
by Charles Dickens from A Christmas Carol
Stave 5 passage: This passage from Charles Dickens’ ...
Stave Three passage: This passage from Charles Dicke...
Stave 2 passage: Charles Dickens’ classic story “A C...
Stave 1 passage: Taken from the first section of Dic...
by Charles Dickens
Book the Third—the Track of a Storm, Part IV passage...
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. These amendments were finally ratified in 1791...