A reading comprehension passage is illustrative for both language arts and earth science skills. Using context clues, learners find out how to predict the weather using various tools. They then answer five reading questions about what they have learned.

Concepts

weather, weather forecasting, meteorology

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use in a weather forecasting unit, or when studying meteorology
• Have kids put on their own news broadcast, complete with weather predictions
• Use in a reading assessment or language arts packet

Pros

• Provides knowledge and application questions for kids to think critically
• Includes an answer key with suggestions for each question

Cons

• None

Common Core

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