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Formation of Earth - Reading Comprehension Worksheet
PDF, Word | 3 pages|Grades: 5 - 6A reading comprehension activity that helps develop literacy skills and outlines the events and processes that led to the formation of our home planet.
Use this reading comprehension activity when developing literacy skills and/or when studying elements of the solar system.
Students read the text Formation of the Earth and then answer a range of questions designed to help students extricate the key information regarding how the planet was formed using comprehension skills including retrieval of literal information and summarising.
This teaching resource would be a wonderful addition to a lesson or unit that develops reading skills and/or that explores Earth and Space Sciences.
An answer sheet has also been provided.
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NSW Curriculum alignment
- EN3-3A
Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
- ST3-10ES-S
Explains regular events in the solar system and geological events on the Earth's surface
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELY319
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources
- VCELY347
Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts
- VCSSU078
Earth is part of a system of planets orbiting around a star (the Sun)
Australian Curriculum alignment
- 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...
- 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...
- ACSSU078
The Earth is part of a system of planets orbiting around a star (the Sun)
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