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$2.75Add to CartLooking for an effective way to teach the Phases of the Moon to your middle to high school students? Looking for a no-prep, printable resource that makes teaching space science a breeze? The Phases of the Moon Reading Comprehension (informational text) resource is your perfect solution! You’ll love the ability to use this resource as a one-day, quick lesson or how easily it can integrate into your existing curriculum, providing clear explanations and reinforcing key concepts.
✨ What’s Included:
- – Detailed reading passages explaining the phases of the moon: new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter, and waning crescent.
- – Information on the days to complete the cycle and the concepts of synchronous rotation and tidal locking.
- – A comprehensive assessment featuring short answer and multiple-choice quiz questions.
- – An easy-to-use answer key for quick grading.
✅ Perfect For…
- – Introducing or reviewing the Phases of the Moon in middle school science classes.
- – No-prep science lesson
- – Reinforcing reading comprehension skills within a science context.
This resource is built upon the pedagogical approach of making real-world connections to science. By explaining the observable phenomenon of the moon’s changing appearance, students can directly relate the concepts to their everyday experiences.
📚 Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to identify and describe the eight major phases of the moon.
- Students will understand the relationship between the Earth, Moon, and Sun that causes the different moon phases.
- Students will be able to explain the concept of synchronous rotation and tidal locking.
- Students will be able to determine the approximate duration of the lunar cycle.
- Students will improve their reading comprehension skills by extracting key information from scientific text.
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This unit is designed to give students practice reading and answering questions on the given scientific and historic informational provided in the text. The main subject of the text: Spring migration of swallows returning to the historic Mission San Juan Capistrano. After reading, students will be asked to answer multiple choice and short answer questions.
For further expansion of the lesson, there are 6 math word problems and a research, writing assignment.
Readability Grades:
- Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 6.1
- Gunning Fog Index: 7.7
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This Abraham Lincoln Informational Text Bundle includes two products:
- Abraham Lincoln | Informational Text and Activities
- Lincoln Memorial | Informational Text and Activities
(See description below for details of each)
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Help students learn about Washington State’s Space Needle in Seattle with this reading comprehension worksheet for 5th-7th grades. This resource includes informational text, a reading comprehension worksheet and answer key.
Flesch-Kincaid grade level: 6.0
Automated Readability Index: 5.8
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Whether you are simply looking for informational text resources or you are studying landforms, if your teaching grades 5th-8th, this resource is perfect! The resource includes 25 reading pages with questions about a given landform. Questions include both short answer and true/false.
Flesch-Kincaid levels range from 5.5 – 8.3
These are short reading passages with 5 – 7 questions after each.
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This cross-curricular resource will inform and assess students’ understanding of the basic process of photosynthesis. Includes both close reading and a cloze activity.
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This Regions of the U.S. Geography resource is centered on the Northeast Region and contains textbook style informational text and related student worksheets with answer keys. Students will enjoy learning about the northeast region studying the categories of Land and Water, Climate, Products and Natural Resources, Landmarks, Culture and Food. The informational text worksheets begin with an anticipation activity section followed by questions that students will answer about each category. The last is a fun ‘unscramble’ the state names worksheet. (Pages: 12)
⭐ This product is included in a $$$ SAVING BUNDLE: Regions of the U.S.A. | Geography Bundle
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This informational resource on Abraham Lincoln is designed to give 5th – 7th graders practice reading and comprehending content area text. There are two pages of text which will cover Lincoln’s life beginning in Kentucky and progresses through his life touching on his family, his career as a lawyer, his election in 1860 and finally his death by the hands of John Wilkes Booth. After reading both the text and two charts (quick facts and fun facts), students will complete a comprehension worksheet. Finally, there is a fun postcard writing activity asking them to write to President Lincoln.
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This American Revolution series has been designed for use in both Language Arts and History classes. It includes 10 informational articles for students to read. Each article has a multiple-choice worksheets as well as a short answer worksheet to check student understanding / comprehension of the passages. Answer Keys Provided.
Article Topics:
- Causes of the American Revolution
- The Boston Massacre
- The Boston Tea Party
- Declaration of Independence
- Colonial Leaders of the American Revolution
- British Leaders of the American Revolution
- American Victories of the Revolution
- Independence from Great Britain
- The Treaty of Paris
- Articles of Confederation
Readability levels: 6th-12th Grade
This series is included in The American Revolution | 4th-8th Grades
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This resource includes informational text (1 page) about the U.S. Constitution. It includes a brief history of the document, the basics of what it accomplishes and the intent behind it. The 2nd page includes 5 multiple choice questions. The 3rd includes 5 short answer questions. Answer Key provided.
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 6.0
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This 47-page resource, “Thanksgiving Notebooking Project”, will provide a month full of learning including expository and creative writing, vocabulary and more!
Included:
- Student Project Pages (Cover, Table of Contents, Project KWL and others)
- Informational Text:
– What is Thanksgiving Day?
– Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamations (Washington’s and Lincoln’s)
– History of Thanksgiving
– Symbols of Thanksgiving - Vocabulary List and Cards
(You choose which words fit your students abilities!) - A variety of note-taking, report creating pages designed for multi-age / ability use
– Some are blank with pictures
– Some with these titles: “I’m Thankful for…”, “Life as a Pilgrim”, “Thanksgiving Traditions”, “Thanksgiving History” - 3 Acrostic Poetry pages (Thanksgiving, Turkey, Pilgrim)
- Several FUN pages including 2 word search puzzles
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Bird of the Arctic – Willow Ptarmigan is a cross-curricular resource (Reading, Writing, Science and Geography) that you can use as a stand alone product or as a supplement to related thematic and/or unit studies. Great to use if you are studying: Habitats, Arctic animals, Alaska, Birds, State birds, Ornithology
