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.

Concepts

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

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

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

Pros

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

Cons

• None

Common Core

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