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The Rise and Fall of The Roman Empire - Informational Text Reading & Comprehension Exercises
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the tumultuous history of the ancient Roman Empire from the foundation of Rome to the fall of Romulus Augustus, the last Roman Emperor.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a true or false exercise, comprehension questions, a definitions match and a fun crossword. The text can be used for IGCSE and TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key included.
Total number of pages: 6

The Unfortunate Story of Easter Island - Reading Comprehension Worksheet
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners. The text describes the unfortunate events that unraveled throughout the millennial on Easter Island. The text narrates the story of the island from the time it was first colonized to the annexation of the island by Chile.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, True or False, a definitions matching exercise and a crossword. The vocabulary used in the texts is rather advanced and can also be used for IGSCE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. Ideally, it could be used before the Easter Holidays!

How were the Pyramids built? - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the possible reasons behind the construction of the pyramids and gives an account of how these ancient wonders were constructed.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, gap filling and True or False exercises. The text can be used for vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.

A Brief History of Tattoos - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text explores the origins of tattoos and their development as an early art form in12,000 B.C. to modern day tatoooing.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions, True or False exercises and a fun word search. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for IGSCE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.

A Brief History of Marriage - Reading Comprehension Worksheet
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text gives an account of how the concept of matrimony evolved over the century from pre-historic times to the sanctioning of marriage during the 15th century to the laws of proper courtship of the Victorian era and the revolutionizing theories of the 18th and 19th centuries that made the institution far more complex and brought love into the covenant.
After carefully reading a text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, True or False, gap filling exercises, a matching exercise and an in class discussion. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for IGSCE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. Ideally, it could be used on or near Valentine's Day!

How did Easter Get its name - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text
This Reading Comprehension handout is best suited for upper elementary to higher intermediate ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the origins of Easter from the ancient Babylonia Godess Ishtar to the Teutonic Goddess Eostre.
After carefully reading the text the students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions, True or False and a word search exercise. The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. A full answer key is included.

Who Was Galileo Galilei? - Reading Comprehension - Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for beginner to proficient ESL learners. The text describes the life and work of the Italian astronomer, mathematician, physicist, philosopher and professor Galileo Galilei. Galileo Galilei is most famous for his pioneering observations of nature and astronomy, his invention of the telescope and his support of the Copernican theory.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a definitions match, and a crossword. This worksheet can also be used for IGSCE, TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - GCSE Reading Comprehension / Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text gives a summary of Christopher Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee”.
After carefully reading the summary of the novel, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: True or False exercises, comprehension questions, a definitions match, a character match, a fill in the gaps exercise and a fun crossword . The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included.

The Strange History of Perfume - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the history of perfume from Ancient Egyptian burials to the first alcohol based fragrance.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a definitions match exercise, and a fun crossword . The text can also be used for IGCSE or TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included

The Rise and Fall of the Mighty Minoan Civilization - Reading & Comprehension Exercises
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the Rise and Fall of the Mighty Minoan Civilization.
Minoans thrived on the island of Crete during the second millennium B.C. and spread throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean world. Crete’s command of the seas would allow its stunning art and architecture to deeply influence the Mycenaean Greek civilization that would succeed it…
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a true or false exercise, comprehension questions, a definitions match and a fun crossword. The text can be used for IGCSE and TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key included.

Who were the Vikings? - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text narrates the history of the Vikings from their very first raid to the coast of Northumbria to their assimilation in the broader Christendom in the 11th century.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a true or false exercise, comprehension questions, a definitions match, a fill in the gaps exercise and a fun crossword. The text can be used for IGCSE and TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key included.

The Rise and Fall of Julius Caesar - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Biography
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text describes the life and reign of the Roman Dictator Julius Caesar.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: True or False exercises, a title match, a fill in the gaps exercise and a fun crossword. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. A full answer key is included,
Total number of pages:8

George Washington – Life and Work: Reading Comprehension Worksheet
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for advanced ESL learners. The text describes the life, work, military and political service of the first president of the United States, George Washington. The text also gives an account of the French and Indian War as well as the war against British Colonialism before the proclamation of Independence.
After carefully reading a text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, True or False, gap filling exercises, a matching exercise and a fun crossword. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for IGSCE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes.

The WWII Aryan Master Race Breeding Plan / Hitler's Eugenics - Reading
This Reading Comprehension worksheet gives a detailed account of Hitler’s “Aryan” race propaganda and his plan to breed a German “Master Race” through positive and negative eugenics programs such as the sterilization of those deemed of “genetically inferior”, his anti-Semetism propaganda, the Lebensborn program and the Germanisation program. The text is suitable for advanced intermediate to proficient ESL learners and native English speakers.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, True or False exercises, multiple choice exercise , a definitions-match exercise and a fun crossword.
This worksheet can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included.
Answer Key included
Total number of pages: 7
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Famous Artists - Biographies Bundle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
This Reading Comprehension worksheets bundle is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The texts narrate the life and work of a number of notable artists and are followed by a number of vocabulary building and comprehension exercises.
After carefully reading each text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, gap filling exercises, True or False, character match and definitions matching exercises, word searches and crosswords. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes.
The handouts can be completed in class or assigned for homework. Full answer keys are included in all individual resources.

The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic - Reading Comprehension Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the spread of the Spanish Flu / Influenza pandemic of 1918 and why it was the deadliest and strangely most forgotten medical calamity in history.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including true or False exercises, a fun crossword and multiple choice exercises . The text can be used for vocabulary building purposes (medical). This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.
A full answer key is included.
Total number of pages: 5

Life Aboard a Slave Ship - Reading Comprehension / Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for beginner to proficient ESL learners. A summary of Markus Rediker’s book “The Slave Ship”, the text explores the history of the slave trade across the Middle Passage and the horrors pf life aboard a slave ship.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a True or False exercises, a definitions match, a multiple choice exercise and a fun crossword.
This worksheet can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included.
Total number of pages: 7

The Life and Work of Nelson Mandela - Black History Reading Comprehension / Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text describes the life and work of social rights activist, politician and philanthropist Nelson Mandela - who became South Africa’s first Black president from 1994 to 1999. After becoming involved in the anti-apartheid movement in his 20s, Mandela joined the African National Congress in 1942. For 20 years, he directed a campaign of peaceful, nonviolent defiance against the South African government and its racist policies.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: title match exercises, comprehension questions, a definitions match, a multiple choice exercise and a crossword. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. A full answer key is included,
Total number of pages: 7

The Tulsa Race Massacre - Reading Comprehension / Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers.
The text explores the events that led up to the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, during which up to 300 black Tulsans were murdered by white residents, and a thriving neighbourhood was burned to the ground. The text also gives an account of the aftermath of the Tulsa Massacre, the segregation of the community, the rise of the KKK, the deleted history records and the search for possible mass graves over a century later.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a definitions match , comprehension questions, multiple choice exercises and a crossword. The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes.
Total number of pages: 7
Answer key included

A Brief History of Medicine - Reading Comprehension Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the evolution of medicine from the first herbal remedies to the latest medical advances of the 21st century.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: a title match, comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a definitions match, a multiple choice exercise and a fun crossword . The text can also be used for IGCSE or TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included.
Total number of pages: 7