Description
New Year’s Reading Passages: Start the new year with meaningful and engaging literacy practice using this New Year’s Reading Passages set! Designed for upper elementary readers, this resource features five high-interest informational passages that explore global traditions, history, and goal-setting to help students kick off January with curiosity and excitement.
Each passage is paired with text-dependent questions that strengthen comprehension, writing, and critical-thinking skills, perfect for easing back into routines after winter break.
Whether used for whole-group lessons, literacy centers, independent reading practice, or January sub plans, this set provides ready-to-go ELA activities that are both purposeful and fun. With print and digital options included, it fits seamlessly into any classroom.
INCLUDED:
- Print & Digital Options
- Color and Black-and-White Versions
- 5 New Year / January–Themed Reading Passages:
- New Year Around the World
- History of Fireworks
- New Year’s Times Square
- Lunar New Year
- What Are New Year’s Resolutions?
- Text-Dependent Question Sets for Each Passage
- Main idea
- Writing-response questions
- Summary writing response
- Answer Keys Included
- Reading Graphic Organizers: Support comprehension skills like main idea, sequencing, compare/contrast, vocabulary, and more
PERFECT FOR:
- January literacy units
- Social studies + ELA integration
- Morning work or bell ringers
- Independent or small-group reading
- Literacy centers
- Homework
- Sub plans
- New Year goal-setting lessons
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Little Leaf Learning Lab –
These comprehension passages were a hit with my kids this year! They were the perfect activity to get back into learning after our winter break! Thank you.
Samantha Burch –
Such a time saver and perfect addition to my unit!
Jennifer McKay –
I work with students with emotional and behavioral disabilities and the more interactive I can make a lesson, the more successful it will be. Thanks so much for your hard work!
Carol Beier –
Great resource to use with my tutoring students. Thank you so much.
Aimee C. –
My students find these reading comprehension passages interesting and enjoyed reading them. They were very suitable for after winter break. Thank you for this great resource.
Channing Landphair –
These passages are both engaging and informational. My kids loved them.
Katie C. –
I used these during my intervention block for students that needed more practice.
Fiorela M. –
Students enjoyed working on this activity. They were engaged and enjoyed working on these with partners during our center time.
Teaching on Caffeine and Hope –
Great comprehension pages that I use for homework for the season.
Veronica A. –
This activity is great for teaching students about the various activities and history behind New Year’s Eve and Lunar New Year.
Naysha A. –
These have been very helpful to use in my classroom as both a progress check and review.
Caitlin M. –
Great resource to learn about the Lunar New Year!
Tiffany C. –
I love this resource! Print and go! It’s easy to use and implement.
Sarah A. –
My students really enjoyed the passages and learning about new years. It was a great way for them to practice their reading comprehension.
Merry Q. –
My fourth graders enjoyed reading about New Year’s customs
Alyssa G. –
Once again, I have bought these before I had a use for them. I am still happy I did! I always buy every new $1 (on sale) resource that comes out and I have not been disappointed once!
Ashley Bond –
It was a great way to return to school after our Christmas break and get in groups to read through these articles. We had each group read a different article and share what they learned about their topic with the rest of the class.
Gia B. –
This was the perfect resource to use for my ELA WIN groups the week we returned from Holiday Break. The kids loved learning about different New Years traditions!
Melissa G. –
This was perfect for our student of Lunar New Year!
Erin P. –
this was a good resource that was very informative