Help kids understand problem-solving strategies by focusing on academic language in a reading comprehension activity. After reading paragraphs about the words solve and evaluate, learners answer five reading comprehension questions.

Concepts

Problem Solving, reading comprehension

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• A great way to combine math and reading across the curriculum
• Use the reading activity to assess reading level for incoming learners
• Include the passage in a reading quiz or homework packet

Pros

• Puts key words and phrases in bold, and helps kids practice their context clues
• Includes an answer key for easy assessment

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.3.1 RL.3.2 RL.3.3 RL.3.4 RL.4.1 RL.4.2 RL.4.3 RL.4.4