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What Causes Reflections? WorksheetWhat Causes Reflections? Worksheet
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What Causes Reflections?

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Your kids probably use mirrors every day, but do they know how they work? A reading passage about reflection and reflective objects can address both physical science and reading comprehension. Kids read the paragraphs and use context clues to answer five comprehension questions.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

reflections, mirrors, light waves, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, reading paragraphs, context clues

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Pair with an experiment about mirrors and reflective objects
  • Have kids complete the questions as a way to assess their reading level

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  • Provides an answer key for straightforward assessment
  • Passage and questions are on one page, making it easy to copy and collect

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Common Core

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

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