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Advertisement Reading Passages
Help students read ads with purpose, audience, persuasive language, details and media awareness.
Free Advertisement Reading Passages
Advertisement reading passages help students practice reading persuasive messages. PicoBuddy offers advertisement passages for elementary and middle school readers, with texts that can support comprehension, media literacy, persuasive writing and real world reading.
Every PicoBuddy passage includes comprehension questions, an online quiz, a free PDF download and an editable Word download. You can print the ad passage, assign the quiz online or edit the Word version when you want to adapt the text, questions or product idea for your students.
Advertisements are useful because they have a clear purpose and audience. Students can practice identifying what is being promoted, who the message is for, what details are included and how the text tries to persuade the reader.
Ad passages can help students notice persuasive language, claims, benefits, opinions, facts, word choice and text evidence. Older students can also discuss whether an advertisement is clear, fair or convincing.
For more practical and persuasive formats, browse our functional text passages. If you want students to compare opinion based texts, you can also explore argumentative reading passages.
When you need an advertisement passage connected to a product, event, classroom project or media literacy lesson, PicoBuddy can create a custom ad passage in minutes.