SCIENCE Close Reading Passages

20 *SCIENCE* Close Reading Passages and Worksheets

- Diverse range of high-interest extracts from authentic texts including fiction (short story)
- Designed for close reading
- Each excerpt stands alone as a close reading text suitable for scrutiny, critique, reflection, and evaluation.
- Texts may be used as bell-ringers, as homework or vacation
assignments, one-to-one tutoring, no-prep substitute plans, or any
other use
- Includes 3 levels of multi-modal questions: main ideas and detail, language and literary devices, author’s purpose, and evaluation and personal-connection
- Vocabulary rich
- Includes questions on text structure, word-choice, and author’s bias
- Common Core Aligned
- Answer key included
- Sample Difficulty Levels included

Topics Included:

♦Robotics
♦Camouflage
♦The Life Cycle
♦Hibernation
♦Biography - Charles Darwin, Galileo, Copernicus, Marie Curie, Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday
♦Adaptation
♦Eclipses
♦Geology
♦Alchemy and Chemistry - History of Science
♦ Number and Mathematics