Description
Give students focused reading practice and opportunities to explain their understanding.
- Grades: 2–3
- Format: Printable pages + Google Slides
Learning Objective
Students read informational texts, identify key ideas and details, make supported inferences, and explain how text evidence supports their answers. They mark relevant text evidence and explain how that evidence supports their answers.
What's Included
- 10 practice passages and 2 assessments.
- Reading comprehension anchor chart and teacher guidance.
- Scaffolded comprehension questions and answer keys.
- Printable PDF and Google Slides formats.
- Classroom use
- Use anchor charts and selected passages to model the skill during whole-class instruction, practice passages for small groups or independent work, and assessments to check understanding. Rainbow Reading encourages students to color-code evidence and build the habit of returning to the text to support answers.
- Passage titles & Lexile levels
- The Effects of Sun — 480L
- How to Make Tacos — 490L
- Lions and Tigers! Oh My! — 520L
- Dear Mr. Saunders — 530L
- Henry “Box” Brown — 560L
- The Spectacular Seahorse — 680L
- Hershey’s Chocolate — 740L
- Malala Yousafzai — 700L
- Pluto the Plutoid — 710L
- Roswell Mystery — 820L
- Assessment: Laura Ingalls Wilder — 680L
- Assessment: Christmas in Mexico — 770L
Ways to Use
Whole-class instruction, small groups, independent practice, or enrichment.
Preparation
Preview the student pages, choose the activities, and print the pages you need. For digital use, check device and internet access and assign the version you will use.
Standards & Skills
Source-listed alignment: RI.2.10, RI.3.10.








Laura V. –
I love that students are interacting a lot with the text. It is really important that students are paying attention to all of the directions for each passage. I wish some of the passages would align more to what I am teaching in science/social studies.
SpedTchyr1 Creations –
Great resource! I am using during small group while we are learning to read and understand nonfiction text. I love that the stories are clearly leveled and each comes with comprehension activities.
Tara M. –
Great resource!
Margaret Kruseman –
Thank you!!
Lynn B. –
Great reading resource.
Katie D. –
Great resource!! Very engaging
Carey R. –
Great Resource!
Christa L. –
Thanks!
Laura C. –
I suggest buying the bundle! You will save money as I bought several resources and later bought the bundle.
Aubrey M. –
My 3rd graders are enjoying these nonfiction texts. They are engaging and make finding answer more fun!
Spotts Lit –
Articles are engaging, and I love the science and historical facts presented. Questions require students to use and practice so many reading skills!
liana A. –
Great resource! My students enjoyed this and it saved me a lot of time.
Brittany B. –
This was so helpful online! The students were able to practice highlighting evidence.
Ashley G. –
My students love all of your resources! They enjoy color coding the evidence! These are great reading passages to use for in class instruction, remote, small groups or applying/reviewing skills.
Lu L. –
It is helpful during this difficult time.
Melinda C. –
I LOVE this purchase. My students and I have learned so much from the stories. They are user friendly and don’t take so long to complete. I use them daily in my class for whole group comprehension practice.
Rebekah H. –
Such a great resource, thank you!
MaryELlen MAtteo –
Used to model and teach skills. Very easy to use.
Rebecca W. –
Just what I needed!
Krystin S. –
Great for independent work at a reading center!
Lauren M. –
This resource was a perfect tool to use to make an ELA packet when school closed for a week for deep cleaning. My students found the topics interesting and engaging. It was a quick and easy resource to put together at the last minute.
Michele B. –
Simple to use for distance learning. Great for breakout rooms. Also incorporate daily for in-person small group lessons!
Rhonda H. –
Great resource!
Ashley H. –
This was a great resource!
Brianne H. –
These were perfect for getting my students to practice some of the nonfiction text skills that we were using in class! It was really easy to use online and actually get them reading.
Nakeyta H. –
Great resource.
Rachel C. –
This resource has been extremely helpful in seeing my kids abilities while distance learning. They are able to use with ease and since it is at varied lexile levels it makes it easy when I group kids in breakout rooms. Thank you!!
Michael O. –
Great to help reinforce concepts.
Ifunanya N. –
Students loved using this resource.
Gina S. –
Very engaging activity!
Mary S. –
Great resource.
Stephanie D. –
here I go again buying all of these!!! they are perfect for differentiation!!!
Ashley G. –
Great resource!
Jaime Calhoun –
This was great. It was challenging for our class and a great review of text evidence.
Kerrie L. –
Love the passages and how they are leveled.
Meghan T. –
I love these high interest pieces!
Jennifer Custer –
Thank you for making quality resourcesI can use with both my in person and online students!
Kathryn B. –
Great resource! Thank you!
MissOrderandOperations –
My students loved the topics covered within the text! They stay engaged and I was able to monitor comprehension with the questions.
Jenny J. –
A great resource to provide leveled reading!
Somewhere Over the Rainbow With Mrs Harris –
Common Core Kingdom resources are always top notch! Always worth the money.
Barbara S. –
Loved.
Tailor Made Teacher –
I absolutely loved this resource. I used it as a material to assign students with a substitute teacher. I took the time before hand to differentiate for each student according to their reading level so I knew that they would be continuing to practice these important skills while I was out of the room. Then, we went over them as a reading group the next day. Fantastic resource!
Denise C. –
This resource is very challenging and perfect to meet the standards.
Kayla B. –
Fantastic passages with strong comprehension questions!!!
Brooke Boggs –
Great resource
Teacher4lyfe –
Interesting reading for my students.
Cherri L. –
Enjoyed using this resource, thanks!
The Crazy Cat Teacher –
This was a great addition to reading workshop! I loved the diverse topics of each text – it was good exposure for my students. I would definitely recommend this resource!
Michelle Boyle –
This is a great resource for teaching and practicing reading skills. I focus on a skill per week. With state testing coming up soon, this product is helping me to check off all the important skills students need. There are so many stories included that I am also using them for an intervention group after school so students get even more practice and they are seeing new stories.