6th Grade Nonfiction Passages Worksheets

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Written by Adi Ackerman, Head Teacher

A nonfiction passage gives true information about a real topic, and readers use its details as evidence. These nonfiction passage worksheets hold 28 sheets for 6th grade, each with an answer key: 10 science articles, 8 history articles, 6 biographies and 4 how it works passages. Why We Have Leap Years explains the Gregorian calendar, The Pony Express follows mail riders across about 1,900 miles, and Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician tells how she checked the numbers for John Glenn. The sheets practice RI.6.1 to RI.6.6.