To help teachers and others working with middle school and high school students to model comprehension strategies, in this 24-page resource, we have prepared 10 short reading passages, each with 9 questions probing higher level reading comprehension skills at different levels of abstraction.

The theme of this volume is World History, including passages about the Earth and the Universe, first life on Earth and the fossil record, agriculture and the domestication of animals, Sumeria, Ancient Egypt, the Library of Alexandria, Ancient Greek city states, and Ancient Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.