Your learners have likely heard about animals going extinct. By reading this passage, they can find out some reasons why this happens and how to protect endangered species. After reading, individuals respond to five related questions.

Concepts

endangered species, extinction, habitats, hunting, animal populations, human impact on the environment, reading comprehension

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Start out the day by using the page as a warm-up or end the day by assigning the worksheet for homework
• Use this as a supplemental material during a study of animal populations and habitats

Classroom Considerations

• This is part of a series of cross-curricular worksheets
• The questions acknowledge the fact that the passage is persuasive

Pros

• An answer key is provided with the resource
• Cross-curricular resource combines life science and reading

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.3.1 RI.4.1