What happens when a species becomes extinct? Sharpen your reading skills with a passage about how koalas have gotten close to being an endangered species.

Concepts

extinction, endangered species, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, reading paragraphs, context clues

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Include in a language arts packet or reading assessment
• A good addition to a science unit about habitats or endangered species
• Have kids research other endangered or threatened species as a group or individually

Pros

• Encourages the use of context clues to identify unfamiliar words and concepts
• Includes an answer key for the comprehension questions

Cons

• None

Common Core

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