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.

Concepts

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

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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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