High-Interest Reading Comprehension – All About Earthworms Reading Passage

Engage your most reluctant readers by providing them with high-interest topics to read and use for comprehension practice. This nonfiction reading comprehension would be excellent to wrap up your study of nonfiction reading skills.

The resource provides a nonfiction passage to provide students with important background information on creepy crawly earthworms and ten rigorous comprehension questions to answer using evidence from the text.

An answer key is included with your download to make grading fast and easy!  

Differentiate and Scaffold Your 4th Grade Reading Comprehension Activities

In addition to independent student work time, use this worksheet as an activity for:

• Guided reading groups 
• Lesson warm-up
• Lesson wrap-up
• Fast finishers 
• Homework assignment
• Whole-class review (via smartboard)

For struggling readers, try the following:

• Provide read-aloud accommodations.
• Allow students to partner read the passage and complete the comprehension check together.
• Pre-teach vocabulary related to passages before reading. 
• Build background before completing by viewing videos and images or discussing prior knowledge on the topic.

For fast finishers, enhance their learning by trying the following:

• Encourage students to look into other creepy animals that they are interested in, or have them create posters teaching others about the creature.
• Have students read additional texts or watch videos about earthworms.
• Have students stretch their learning by using their knowledge to build a five-paragraph essay.

Easily Download & Print

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to download the PDF or Google Slides resource.

Because this resource includes an answer sheet, we recommend you print one copy of the entire file. Then, make photocopies of the blank worksheet for students to complete.

To save paper, we suggest printing the 2-page worksheets double-sided. 

Additionally, project the worksheet onto a screen and work through it as a class by having students record their answers in their notebooks.