Earth Day Reading Passages | Paired Passages with Questions

Engage your 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students with these high-interest reading passages about Earth Day. Use as individual reading passages or have students compare the paired passages. Each Earth Day reading passage includes comprehension checks, find the evidence practice, an integrated writing opportunity, and response questions that promote critical thinking skills while comparing both passages.

Earth Day Reading Comprehension Paired Passages includes:

• 2 Earth Day reading passages
• Comprehension Questions

This close reading resource can be used in a variety of ways:

• balanced literacy block
• Social Studies instruction, whole group
• literacy center
• small group reading instruction
• assessment
• independent practice
• guided practice
• individual worksheets or seat work
• comprehension skill groups

Common Core State Standards addressed in this resource:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI3.1  Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI3.10  By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI4.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI4.3 Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI5.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.5 Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally).