6 free reading resources for 9th Grade, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
Reading comprehension is about more than finding the answer in the text. Students need to read literally (what does it say?), inferentially (what does it mean?) and evaluatively (what do I think, and why?). Each passage here comes with questions at all three levels and model answers for the open ones.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Students work with fifteen high-frequency academic words drawn from the Academic Word List, the words that appear across textbooks, exam…
Students learn common Greek and Latin roots (such as chron, graph, port, dict, spect, rupt, bene and mal) and use them, together with…
Students sort out pairs of words that are often confused in senior writing: affect and effect, imply and infer, complement and compliment,…
A passage with questions.
An original short story about a ferry operator's final night before a new bridge replaces his boat, told through the eyes of his…
An original persuasive speech in which a high school student asks a Texas city council to turn off unneeded lights at night during the…
An original feature article about the whooping crane, North America's tallest bird, which spends the winter on the Texas coast at Aransas…
Writing prompts include a model opening and clear success criteria rather than a single 'correct' answer, so parents and teachers can give useful feedback.
Yes. All passages are written by Success Tutoring and checked for age-appropriate vocabulary and sentence length.
