Help your learners work their way through a reading assignment for informational text. Using context clues, they answer five comprehension question based on a short passage about the three levels of government: local government, state government, and federal government.

Concepts

the three branches of government, the united states government, local government, state government, the federal government, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, context clues, informational texts

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use in a social studies lesson to enhance your kids' reading comprehension for informational texts
• Include in a language arts assessment for incoming learners
• Have kids research the different levels of government, or a specific bill as it makes its way through the system

Pros

• Includes an answer key for simple assessment

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.3.1