Why is weather different around the world? Learn about world climates with a reading comprehension passage. Kids read a short passage before answering five comprehension questions based on context clues.

Concepts

climate regions, climates, the earth's atmosphere, the equator, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, context clues, informational texts

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Pair with a lesson about the earth's atmosphere or when studying weather patterns
• Have kids conduct research about the climate in their area, and how it changes throughout the year
• Include in a language arts assessment to test reading level

Pros

• Comes with an answer key for easy assessment
• A good way to combine science and language arts into one lesson

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.3.1 RI.4.1