Help students develop resilience, perseverance, and confidence with this engaging Growth Mindset Informational Text with Audio designed specifically for ESL learners. This high-interest Growth Mindset Reading Passage introduces students to the power of effort, learning from mistakes, and overcoming challenges while building reading comprehension, academic vocabulary, and critical thinking skills. Perfect as a SEL Reading Passage and Reading Passage with Audio, this resource combines literacy development and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in a format that supports secondary English learners and multilingual students.

Written specifically for middle school and high school English learners, this Growth Mindset Informational Text helps students understand how persistence, reflection, and positive thinking contribute to long-term success. Audio support makes this Growth Mindset Reading Passage accessible to multilingual learners while strengthening listening comprehension, fluency, and confidence. Students explore real-world applications of growth mindset principles while practicing essential reading and writing skills.

Ideal for ESL, ELDA, advisory, intervention, counseling, or Social Emotional Learning lessons, this resource supports students as they learn to view mistakes as opportunities for growth. The text naturally connects to topics such as resilience, perseverance, goal setting, and overcoming challenges, making it a valuable addition to any SEL curriculum.

What's Included

• Leveled A2–B1 and B2 Reading Passages

• Embedded Native Audio Recordings plus MP3 files

• Reading Comprehension Questions including:

• Author's Purpose
• Inference
• Text Evidence
• Vocabulary in Context
• Central Idea

• Context Clues Practice with 6 vocabulary words

• Short Constructed Response Writing Activity

• Rough Draft Page
• Final Draft Page

• Complete Answer Keys

• Printable PDF Version

• Digital Google Slides Version

• PowerPoint Version

SEL Skills Addressed

• Developing a Growth Mindset

• Building Confidence and Persistence

• Learning From Mistakes and Feedback

• Responding Positively to Challenges

• Reflecting on Learning and Progress

• Developing Resilience

• Strengthening Perseverance

Skills Covered

• Reading Comprehension

• Vocabulary Development

• Context Clues Practice

• Central Idea Activities

• Author's Purpose Activities

• Listening and Reading Activities

• Reading Fluency Practice

• Reading and Writing Activities

Perfect For

• Secondary ESL

• High School ESL

• English Learners

• Multilingual Learners

• Social Emotional Learning Lessons

• SEL Reading Activities

• Growth Mindset Activities

• Reading Intervention

• Advisory Classes

• Counseling Support

• Independent Practice

• Bell Ringers, Stations, and Sub Plans

Why Teachers Love This Resource

• Combines literacy instruction with Social Emotional Learning

• Audio-supported reading for multilingual learners

• Written specifically for secondary ESL students

• Strong scaffolding without over-supporting students

• Encourages resilience, perseverance, and positive self-reflection

• Easy-to-use printable and digital formats

• Supports reading, listening, vocabulary, and writing skills in a single lesson

Great For

• Growth Mindset Activities

• Growth Mindset SEL Lessons

• Growth Mindset Reading Comprehension

• Growth Mindset Reading Activities

• SEL Reading Passage Lessons

• Resilience Activities

• Resilience Reading Passage Extensions

• Perseverance Activities

• Perseverance Reading Passage Discussions

• Learning From Mistakes Activities

• Overcoming Challenges Activities

• Positive Mindset Activities

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Looking for More ESL Informational Texts?

If you and your students enjoy this Growth Mindset resource, be sure to check out my ESL Informational Text Mega Growing Bundle. This growing collection includes high-interest informational texts, nonfiction reading passages, and reading comprehension activities designed specifically for secondary English learners. Each resource includes audio support, comprehension questions, context clues practice, and writing activities to help multilingual learners build academic language and literacy skills.