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 12th 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.
by John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was inaugurated on January 2...
by Theodore Roosevelt
An avid conservationist, President Theodore Roosevel...
Students will read a passage about the tricoteuses, the knitting women who sat near the guillotine during the French Revolution...
by Victor Hugo from Les Misérables
CHAPTER XII passage: Often called one of the greates...
by Abraham Lincoln
In the midst of the Civil War, President Abraham Lin...
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...
by Second Continental Congress
The Declaration of Independence was the document ado...
by Charles Dickens from A Tale of Two Cities
Book the First, Chapter I Passage: Charles Dickens w...
by O. Henry
"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry is a favorite Chr...