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10th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages
Short passages with questions under each, written for Grade 10. Every question sends the reader back into the text, and every answer explains why.
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- Free Story About 500 words The Interpreter Marta has translated for her mother at banks and pharmacies. Her little brother's parent-teacher conference should be easy. It is not.
- Free Science About 500 words The Invisible World of Microbes They live in hot springs, in ice and all over your skin, yet nobody knew they existed until about 350 years ago. How did we find out about microbes?
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- With a plan Story About 500 words Hard Times: "Now, What I Want Is, Facts" A bare schoolroom, rows of children, and a man with a square forefinger who wants nothing but Facts. Charles Dickens opens his 1854 novel.
- With a plan Speech About 600 words Franklin's Closing Speech On the last day of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, its oldest delegate explains why he will sign a plan he does not fully approve.
- With a plan Science About 550 words How Batteries Store Energy A battery is not a tiny tank of electricity. So what is inside it, and why does it eventually run down?
- With a plan Story About 550 words The Understudy Two days before opening night, Greta sprains her ankle. Now she must sit in the audience and watch someone else play the part she has waited three years for.
- With a plan Science About 550 words Darwin on the Galápagos In 1835 the young naturalist Charles Darwin collects birds and hears about tortoises on the Galápagos Islands, and notices something he did not expect.
- With a plan History About 600 words The Story of the Transistor In 1947, three scientists in New Jersey built a strange little device out of gold foil, plastic and a sliver of metal. It changed almost everything.
- With a plan Opinion About 550 words Should Cursive Still Be Taught? A student who could not read a box of old family letters makes the case for cursive, then faces the strongest argument against it.
- With a plan Poem Short Ozymandias A traveller describes a broken statue in the desert and the proud words carved on its base. A sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley, first printed in 1818.