This resource contains 12 reading comprehension articles for high school students as well as strong middle school students and will save you 40%. Tackle literacy and science by having your students read and answer questions from a scientific article. Each article highlights and explains key concepts for students’ understanding at a level they can comprehend. Each reading includes Reading Comprehension questions and answers that test students’ concept understanding (direct from the paper), thinking and connecting, along with optional Extension Questions that challenge students to perform additional work and research outside the paper.
No prep, no formatting, no issues. Simply download, print (or upload to your class site), and you’re all set!
These resources are fully editable for your convenience and include:
• Fermentation and Food
• DNA Paternity Tests
• Laser Eye Surgery
• Physical Adaptations
• Muscle Growth
• Genetically Modified Organisms
• Mosquitoes And The Diseases They Spread
• GERD and Acid Reflux – A Digestive System Disease
• Bats – Misconceptions, Importance, and Facts
• Superbugs – The Super Villains of Modern Medicine
• Heart Attack and Stroke
HS – LS 1 – From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
HS – LS 2 – Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
HS – LS 3 – Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
HS – LS 4 – Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
HS – ESS 2 – Earth’s Systems
HS – ESS 3 – Earth and Human Activity
The Problem You Face – Not having the time to properly teach scientific literacy (disciplinary literacy) or improve your students reading comprehension and analysis skills.
This fully editable, NO PREP reading comprehension article is composed of relevant, applicable and engaging reading activities which can be used to:
• introduce your topic
• improve your students reading comprehension and scientific literacy skills
• improve your students’ analysis skills
• provide an extension activity to students who move at a faster pace
• provide extra credit to students in need
• measure your students literacy skills
Furthermore, this resource works very well as an emergency substitute plan as it will keep your students on task and focused while you are away.
Each summary is rich with age-appropriate content (grades 8 and up) and is 2.5-3 pages long (13-font). Following each is a list of 8-13 questions along with the answer key, which will help guide your students understanding.
How this product will help your students:
– Improve their scientific and disciplinary literacy skills
– Improve their reading comprehension and scientific knowledge
– Give them insights into important scientific concepts
– Provide an extension activity for your faster moving/more gifted students
How this product will help you:
– Allow you to meet the NGSS, TEKS and Common Core Standards
– Provide you with a concise introduction to your topic
– Provide you with an engaging and easy to leave substitute plan which will keep your students engaged and on task
– Prove you a means of measuring your students’ literacy skills
We don’t spend enough time teaching scientific literacy to our students. This is either because we don’t have the resources to do so effectively or we don’t have the time. However, teaching our students to become scientifically literate is vital if we want them to succeed in life. We need them to know about the world they live in and about the issues they face. Even issues as simple as the common cold are misunderstood and can lead to the misuse of antibacterial drugs eventually rendering them ineffective.
It can be used as a tool in your teaching arsenal on a regular basis, an extension activity for your faster learners, left for a substitute in an emergency or planned absence or as an extra bit of information for a topic.
This resource will take your students between 50-75 minutes to complete and includes some open-ended questions. An answer key is also included for your reference.