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Habitat Destruction

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What happens when an animal becomes endangered or extinct? Explore the ways that human influence throughout the environment has threatened the existence of other species with a reading passage. After reading the paragraphs, kids answer five reading comprehension questions about the passage.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

habitats, conservation, endangered species, extinction, deforestation, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, informational texts, context clues

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Use passage to assess reading level of incoming learners
  • A good addition to your unit about endangered species, or when reading a book about conservation
  • Have kids come up with their own comprehension questions about the reading

Pros

  • Bridges both life science and language arts in one lesson
  • Provides an answer key for easy assessment

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.3.1 RI.3.2 RI.3.3 RI.3.4

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