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We Need Freshwater

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Why do we need freshwater? Because freshwater sustains life. After reading a three-paragraph passage about the importance of freshwater, first graders respond to the article by answering comprehension questions. The resource includes multiple choice, short answer, and drawing type questions.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

the water cycle, freshwater, reading comprehension

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Instruct readers to underline their answers within the text
  • Use as a guided reading activity or send the sheet home for pupils to read and complete with their parents

Classroom Considerations

  • Passage is a Lexile® 460 reading level
  • Best fits in a science lesson on types of water and the water cycle 

Pros

  • Comes with an audio version of the text
  • Includes an answer key
  • Provides lined sentence lines to help beginning writers keep their responses organized

Cons

  • Passage is very short

Common Core

RI.1.1 RI.1.2 RI.1.10 L.1.4.a L.1.6

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