Southern Stories

This worksheet is designed for students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 to build strong informational reading and written response skills through a focused study of South America. Students read a short passage exploring the continent’s diverse landscapes, climates, and cultures, then answer five open-ended questions in complete sentences, demonstrating understanding, interpretation, and clear explanation.

Learning Goals

• Informational Reading (Grades 4-6): Identify key ideas and important details in a nonfiction passage about South America.
• Geography of Continents: Learn about major geographic features such as the Amazon Rainforest, Andes Mountains, and varied climate regions.
• Cultural Understanding: Recognize how history, geography, and migration shape cultural diversity across South America.
• Written Expression: Practice explaining ideas clearly using complete sentences and accurate details from the text.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed to align with upper elementary ELA and social studies standards.
• Open-Ended Questions: Encourage explanation, inference, and thoughtful responses rather than simple recall.
• Flexible Use: Ideal for reading lessons, geography units, assessments, homework, or small-group instruction.
• Cross-Curricular Learning: Integrates reading comprehension with geographic and cultural studies.

This printable worksheet helps students strengthen comprehension, inferencing, and written communication while learning about South America’s geography and cultural richness. By reading informational text and responding thoughtfully, learners build literacy skills alongside global awareness. It’s a practical, no-prep resource that works well in both classroom instruction and homeschool learning, supporting meaningful engagement with world geography and cultures.

This worksheet is part of our South America Worksheets collection.