International Literacy Day critical reading worksheets for Grade 6 explore how literacy initiatives can expand opportunity, influence communities, and support informed decision-making. Designed for a Grade 6 Holiday lesson, this resource uses an informational passage about global literacy programs to build evidence-based reading and analysis skills.

What Students Examine

The reading focuses on two literacy initiatives: one using local-language reading materials and trained community volunteers, and another using low-cost tablets and audio stories. Students consider why equal access to learning materials matters, how literacy connects to families and public services, and why technology needs guidance and relevant content to expand access effectively.

Students practise author's purpose, main message, evaluating arguments, using textual evidence, making inferences, and critical reading. They also examine how reading and media can influence conversations about health, work, voting, community choices, and societal progress. The passage provides opportunities to compare different author emphases while identifying the shared message that literacy can connect individuals to wider opportunities.

Student Practice and Written Response

The worksheet moves from close reading into several forms of comprehension and analysis. Students respond to multiple-choice questions, fact-or-fiction statements, concise short-answer prompts, matching questions, and an extended essay. The written response asks students to explain the purpose of literacy programs, compare the two initiatives' different emphases, and connect reading with societal progress and decision-making.

A Did You Know? section provides an additional topic-focused element, while the activities give students repeated opportunities to support interpretations with information from the passage rather than relying on personal opinion.

Teacher Support Included

• Teacher Guide included within the Answer Key PDF
• Learning objectives for the lesson
• Teaching tips for classroom use
• Discussion questions to extend text-based conversation
• Common mistakes to help guide review and feedback
• Answer key for the included student activities

Classroom Use

Use this Grade 6 reading worksheet for an International Literacy Day lesson, independent reading practice, guided reading, classroom discussion, or written response work. The sequence supports movement from identifying information in an informational text toward evaluating ideas, comparing perspectives, making inferences, and developing an evidence-based essay.

This resource gives teachers a focused way to connect International Literacy Day with meaningful critical reading: students investigate equal access to learning, community literacy initiatives, technology-supported learning, and the relationship between reading and informed choices.