8th Grade Non-Fiction Reading

Solidify your reading and understanding skills: • This collection of 10 original stories was written specifically for this app • Read and test your comprehension with a variety of questions about the selected passages • Study anywhere and learn at your own pace • Each passage and question set takes approximately 5-8 minutes to complete • Specifically appropriate content chosen at the 8th grade level • Works well in classrooms for independent study time • Increase student reading comprehension and their scores!Peekaboo Studios reading passages have been written by award winning authors, teachers, and Pulitzer Prize nominees specifically for our apps.Aligned with CCSS - Common Core State Standards for 8th Grade: • Read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently • Determine a theme or central idea of a text • Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the textNon-Fiction topics include: • Alessandro Volta • Apollo 11 • Jesse Owens • Honey Bees • The Washington Monument • J.K.
Rowling • Mesa Verde National Park • George Foster Peabody • Marie Antoinette • The Golden Gate Bridge*With practice you can achieve your best score!*code updates