Learn about Galileo Galilei's contribution to modern science with a reading passage that focuses on reading comprehension. After kids read several paragraphs about his life, they answer five questions about the information they have just read.

Concepts

galileo galilei, telescopes, inventors, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, informational texts, context clues, reading paragraphs

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Have kids research other influential inventors or scientists, and write a short biography like the one in the reading passage
• Add to a reading assessment to place incoming learners in the correct reading level

Pros

• Comes with an answer key for simple assessment 
• A great way to combine science and language arts

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.2.1 RL.2.2 RL.2.3 RL.2.4 RL.3.1 RL.3.2 RL.3.3 RL.3.4