Alberta Regions Reading Passages | Paper and Digital

These reading passages were designed so students could read material about each of Alberta's regions using common text features like photographs, text boxes, maps, and glossary words. The regions included are Foothills, Grasslands, Parkland, Canadian Shield, Rocky Mountains, and Boreal Forest.

This resource is part of our Alberta Regions Project Bundle.

This supporting resource includes:

• six reading passages designed for grade four independent reading about each of Alberta's six geographical regions
• text features: bolded words, text boxes, maps, captions, photographs, tables, charts
• instructions on ways to use the read materials to support your social studies programs
• a set of cover pages for each region for the paper version.
• instructions on ways to use the reading passages as paper pages or digitally.

If you teach in Alberta, be aware this resource was written for the old Social Studies Program of Studies. It has not been reviewed or adjusted for the new Alberta social studies curriculum which is being piloted in the 2024-25 school year. To learn about how we plan to address the changes, visit our site https://brainninjas.ca/social-studies-in-alberta/

These activities align with:

• the Alberta Program of Studies Grade 4 Social Studies

These reading passages are not given specific reading levels to any program. We have tried to make these close to a Grade 4 reading level.

Ninja Note: To access the digital version, download the PDF and click on the link in the file.

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