Detailed description
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The Lifesaving Typhus Epidemic’, features an informational text about a Polish doctor who saved thousands of lives during World War II by faking an epidemic. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about validity, cause and effect, drawing a conclusion, figurative language, fact/opinion, making a judgment, detail, drawing a conclusion, and reasoning. Answer sheet provided with file download.