Meteoroids: A Look at These Space Rocks
Meteoroids: An Educational Close Reading Packet is meant to introduce students to the interesting world of space rocks, meteors, and meteor showers. You can use it all year long, but it works best when you’re studying science, space travel, or nature events. The packet’s main feature is its interesting articles and texts, which talk about things like what meteoroids are, what they’re made of, how they hit Earth’s atmosphere to become meteors, and amazing meteor storms like the Perseids and Leonids. Students will learn the differences between meteoroids, meteors, and asteroids. They will also learn about the role of space dust in our solar system and why studying these space rocks is important for science. This book is especially useful when talking about meteor showers or other astronomical events or the effects of celestial bodies on Earth and space research. It tells us everything we need to know about meteoroids and how they have changed the way we think about the universe.
These close reading comprehension passages are the perfect no-prep, standards-based, and high interest way to strengthen your students’ close reading skills!
Short on time to teach? This print and go packet truly is for you! It has everything you need for a complete, successful informational text reading unit.
This Close reading set features:
Meteoroids
Space Rocks
MeteorsMeteor Showers
Space Dust
Rock Falling
As they complete the close reading process, students will build comprehension by answering text-dependent questions.
Skills align with both the RI (Reading Informational Texts) and RL (Reading Literature) Common Core Standards
These passages can be used in the morning, at centers, as part of homework, with small groups, for extra learning with smart students, to help struggling students, or to get ready for tests.
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