Earth Day Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions
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Description
Celebrate Earth Day with this nonfiction reading passage. Students will learn how Earth Day began, how pollution impacts our air and water supplies, and what happens to their garbage. Ideas to help students conserve are included.
This article features four headings - Getting Started, Looking After the Land, Aiming for Clean Air, and Watching the Water.
Skills included are authors purpose, cause and effect, main idea, making inferences, prefixes, nonfiction text features, and capital letters.
There are ten text-dependent questions included. Some questions require students to pick more than one answer.
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