"Space Food" is a one page, nonfiction passage about how astronauts prepare and eat food and clean up afterward to stay healthy. It is followed by an open-ended question which requires students to provide evidence from the story; it includes underlining the most important information in each paragraph, determining the main idea, and then writing a summary of the passage using evidence from the text. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1 and 2 requiring close reading, textual evidence, main idea, integrating ideas from different sources, and summarizing.

Concepts

summarizing, astronauts

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Additional Tags

astronauts' food, main idea and supporting details, common core anchor reading standards 1 and 2, depaul university, depaul university: center for urban education: space food, polk brothers foundation center for urban education, astronaut life

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)