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.








Christina M. –
This is perfect to use in my comprehension intervention! I really need to get those kids really comprehending and thinking about what they are reading, this is the perfect practice. I love that it also has writing responses that allow them to practice their RACE strategy!! I’ve used many of these packs, I know I won’t be disappointed.
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Fall in Love with Learning –
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Middle Accessibility –
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Everyone is just a little bit special –
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Holly S. –
This will work great for RTI groups
Kelly T. –
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Rabyn B. –
I’m going to use this resource with my higher readers.
Tyler G. –
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Jason H. –
Love these passages!
Jennifer M. –
Great for small groups
Jen H. –
Perfect!
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Kim F. –
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Stephanie Cibella –
I love the differentiated levels and color coding to show text evidence. This is useful for the different levels of students in my class and is an engaging resource for all students no matter what level.
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Rachel M. –
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Kirsten J. –
Love the stories included in this bundle.
AMANDA T. –
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Tamara Gardner –
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Allison H. –
So hard to find informational text that is appropriate for primary grades! Thanks!