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Earth Watch – Drowning in Plastic Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 8 Pages
Curriculum: AUS V8, AUS V9

Years: 3 - 5

A comprehension worksheet for a magazine article about plastic pollution in our oceans.

Environmentally Friendly Reading Passages for Upper Years

Are you preparing for your Earth Day lessons? Or maybe you’re midway through your unit on Sustainability, and you need something to help you blend a bit more reading into your science block. We’ve got everything you need to help you teach your students about the ecological disaster known as microplastics.

Help your students learn this critical information and show them what they can do to help the problem with our printable reading comprehension passage and worksheets about microplastics and their effects on ocean wildlife. This resource download includes

Drowning in Plastic Reading Passage
Vocabulary Building Worksheet
10 Question reading comprehension activity including multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, constructed response, and true/false questions.

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Curriculum

ACELT1594

Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authorsâ reasonsElaborationsreading texts in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children/young people are the central character...
ACELT1596

Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with othersElaborationsdiscussing relevant prior knowledge and past experiences to make meaningful connections to the people, places, events, issues and ideas ...
ACELY1691

Read different types of texts by combining contextual , semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies for example monitoring meaning, cross checking and reviewingElaborationsreading new and different kinds of texts with...
ACELY1692

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating textsElaborationsmaking connections between the text and studentsâ own experience and oth...
ACELY1702

Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanningElaborationsbringing subject and technical vocabulary and concept knowledge...
ACELY1703

Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sourcesElaborationsusing research skills including identifying research purpose, locating texts, gathering and organising informati...
ACELY1712

Select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate text processing strategies and interpreting structural features, for example table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadingsElaborationsbringing subject and...
ACELY1713

Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital textsElaborationsmaking connections between the text and studentsâ own experience or oth...

Author

Kristian

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