Aha moments and inferences will abound in your classroom with these highly engaging informational reading comprehension passages to support practice making inferences. Students will connect text evidence to inferences and make their own inferences for scaffolded support that requires little prep by you. These passages are easy to implement- just print and go- and will allow you to incorporate social justice into your classroom.

Passages represent community events and organizing in the Black, Latinx, Native American and AAPI communities.

Product Includes:

1. Ten informational passages about different change making groups and examples of social movements.
2. Each passage has questions related to most and least important key details and a challenging word to identify the meaning of.
3. All passages in the 810-1000 exile band.
4. Student answer sheet provided

Topics Included:

• Chicano Movement & School Walkouts
• Women's Suffrage & Ida B's Suffrage Club
• Native American Women's Movement
• International Hotel SF
• Arab Americans of NY
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Student practice activities for Argument Reading & Writing:

Identifying Author’s Claim Do-Now Practice with Black History Figures

Longer form Identifying Author’s Claim using excerpts from MLK speeches

Differentiated Reading with OREO Writing Response about Native American Contributions

More ELA activities for honoring historically marginalized groups:

Informational Text Literacy Center Task Cards featuring Women Changemakers

Informational Text Literacy Center Task Cards featuring LGBTQ Changemakers

Latinx History Month Bundle

Indigenous People’s Month Bundle