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Drowning in Plastic – Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Updated: 17 Jun 2024

Teach your students facts about ocean pollution with this comprehensive article with accompanying comprehension activities.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 8 Pages
Years: 5 - 6

Curriculum

VC2S6U01

The growth and survival of living things are affected by the physical conditions of their environment
VC2E5LY06

Read different types of increasingly complex texts, integrating phonic, semantic and grammatical knowledge to read accurately and fluently for meaning, re-reading and self-correcting when needed
VC2E5LY09

Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning, to evaluate information and ideas to build literal and inferred meanings
VC2E6LY05

Select and read different types of texts of varying complexity, integrating phonic, semantic and grammatical knowledge to read accurately and fluently for meaning, re-reading and self-correcting when needed
VC2E6LY08

Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning, and connect and compare ideas from a variety of sources to build literal and inferred meanings

teaching resource

Drowning in Plastic – Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Updated: 17 Jun 2024

Teach your students facts about ocean pollution with this comprehensive article with accompanying comprehension activities.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 8 Pages
Years: 5 - 6

Teach your students facts about ocean pollution with this comprehensive article with accompanying comprehension activities.

Drowning in Plastic – Reading Comprehension Worksheet

The Earth’s oceans are home to an amazing variety of animal and plant life. Every year, more and more plastics end up in the oceans. As this continues, marine life will struggle to deal with the massive changes plastic pollution is causing.

Help your students learn more about this environmental catastrophe and what they can do to help the problem with Teach Starter’s printable Drowning in Plastic – Reading Comprehension Worksheet Pack! Students will read a comprehensive article about microplastics and their effects on ocean wildlife, then explore what they have learned through supplementary activities. This resource download includes:

Drowning in Plastic Reading Passage
Vocabulary Building Worksheet
Reading Comprehension Activity
Answer Key

This Drowning in Plastic – Reading Comprehension Worksheet Pack downloads as an easy-print PDF (both full-colour and black-and-white) or an editable Google Slides document.

Download This Ocean Pollution Worksheet

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As this resource contains an answer key, we recommend printing one copy of the entire file before making copies for your students.

For sustainability purposes, please consider printing this resource double-sided. Alternatively, save even more paper by projecting their questions onto your interactive whiteboard and having the students write their answers into their workbooks.

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Curriculum

VC2S6U01

The growth and survival of living things are affected by the physical conditions of their environment
VC2E5LY06

Read different types of increasingly complex texts, integrating phonic, semantic and grammatical knowledge to read accurately and fluently for meaning, re-reading and self-correcting when needed
VC2E5LY09

Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning, to evaluate information and ideas to build literal and inferred meanings
VC2E6LY05

Select and read different types of texts of varying complexity, integrating phonic, semantic and grammatical knowledge to read accurately and fluently for meaning, re-reading and self-correcting when needed
VC2E6LY08

Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning, and connect and compare ideas from a variety of sources to build literal and inferred meanings

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