Give your students the tools to strengthen vocabulary and comprehension with this Week 1 Word Work & Reading Comprehension packet. Designed for middle-grade learners (5th–7th), this resource integrates vocabulary study, context clues, and close reading strategies with a high-interest, soccer-themed passage.

✅ What’s Included:

• Vocabulary activities (matching + sentence writing) with answer key
  
• Reading passage (“Summer Trip to Jordan – A New Challenge”)
  
• Comprehension questions focused on citing textual evidence, inference, and theme
  
• Answer key for all comprehension questions
  
• Graphic organizer for recording inferences and text evidence
  

✅ Skills Covered:

• L.6.4: Determine meanings of unknown words using context clues, word parts, and reference materials
  
• RL.6.1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis
  
• RL.6.2: Determine theme or central idea and summarize the text
  
• RL.6.3: Analyze character development and interactions
  
• W.6.9: Draw evidence from texts to support writing
  

Perfect for classroom instruction, small group intervention, tutoring, or independent practice. This resource provides everything you need to guide students step by step in connecting vocabulary knowledge with deeper reading comprehension.