Grade 3 Reading Informational Text - Main Idea Science Curriculum Resources
Enhance the skill of identifying main ideas in informational text about science in young readers with our Reading Informational Text - Main Idea Science curriculum resources. These resources provide a structured approach to recognizing and understanding the central concepts of informational texts related to science in an interactive and printable format, improving overall reading comprehension.
Curriculum Resources Results
Koi Fish—What’s the Main Idea?
This informational text on koi fish is a great introduction to teaching main idea. Students will be asked, in multiple c...
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Handy Helpers —Authors Point of View
This informational text on pollinators and decomposers is perfect for teaching point of view. Students will read the tex...
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The Oxygen Cycle
The oxygen cycle illustrates how oxygen moves through the atmosphere, water, and living organisms. Driven by photosynthe...
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Why the Great Barrier Reef Matters
This passage highlights the critical importance of the Great Barrier Reef for both nature and humans. It emphasizes the ...
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Life in the Great Barrier Reef
This passage delves into the rich biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef. It describes the vast array of marine life, in...
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How Kids Can Help Protect the Great Barrier Reef
This passage focuses on empowering children to take action in protecting the Great Barrier Reef and the environment. It ...
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What is Weather?
This passage explains weather to children, describing it as the current outdoor conditions. It covers various weather ty...
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What is the Greenhouse Effect?
This passage introduces the greenhouse effect to children, comparing it to a blanket around Earth. It explains how sunli...
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Can you give an example of a renewable energy source?
This passage focuses on solar energy as an example of renewable energy for children. It explains how solar panels captur...
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Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: Simple Tips for Home
This passage focuses on reducing carbon footprints at home by conserving electricity. It suggests practical actions like...
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How Kids Can Help Fight Climate Change?
This passage introduces the concept of 'reduce, reuse, recycle' as a way for children to help fight climate change. It e...
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Main Idea and Supporting Details in Informational Text
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What Is an Atmospheric Physicist?
This NGSS-aligned middle school science passage introduces students to the role of an atmospheric physicist. It explains...
How Do Trees Affect the Weather?
This NGSS-aligned science reading passage explores how trees affect weather and climate. Students will learn about the r...
How Does Snow Form?
This NGSS-aligned science reading passage explains how snow forms in the atmosphere. Students will learn about the proce...
Why Does the Wind Blow?
This NGSS-aligned reading passage explains what causes the wind to blow. Students will learn how differences in air temp...
Can Animals Predict the Weather?
This NGSS-aligned reading passage explores how animals might sense changes in the environment before storms or natural d...
Why Are Hurricanes Given Names?
This NGSS-aligned science reading passage explains why hurricanes are given names and how this practice improves communi...
How Big Can Raindrops Get?
This NGSS-aligned science reading passage explains how raindrops form in clouds and how big they can grow before breakin...
What Causes Thunderstorms?
This NGSS-aligned reading passage explains how thunderstorms form from warm, moist air rising into the atmosphere. Stude...
Why Do Clouds Turn Grey?
This NGSS-aligned reading passage explains why clouds appear grey when they become dense with water droplets and block s...
Why Are Clouds White?
This NGSS-aligned reading passage explains why clouds appear white to our eyes. Students learn how sunlight, which is ma...
What Are Clouds Made Of?
This NGSS-aligned reading passage explains what clouds are made of and how they form in the atmosphere. Students learn t...
What Are Nimbostratus Clouds Made Of?
This NGSS-aligned reading passage explains what nimbostratus clouds are made of and how they form. Students will learn t...
What is Solar Radiation
This NGSS-aligned science reading passage for middle school students explores the concept of solar radiation. Solar radi...
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How Incoming Solar Radiation Changes with Latitude
This NGSS-aligned science reading passage helps middle school students understand how solar radiation, or insolation, ch...
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The Hottest Planet in the Solar System
This NGSS-aligned middle school reading passage explains why Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system. Students l...
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What Is Space Weather and How Does It Affect the Earth?
This NGSS-aligned science passage for middle school explains what space weather is and how it affects Earth. Students le...
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Patterns In The Sky
This engaging 1st-grade reading comprehension passage, 'Being a Sky Observer,' directly aligns with NGSS Standard 1-ESS1...
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Sun Pattern
This reading passage on patterns of the Sun supports the NGSS 1-ESS1-1 standard for understanding the Sun's apparent mov...
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Earth's Place in the Universe
This reading passage explains Earth's place in the universe, supporting NGSS 1-ESS1-1. It describes how Earth is one of ...
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Moon Phases
This informational reading passage explores the patterns of the Moon to support NGSS 1-ESS1-1. It describes how the Moon...
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When Was Neptune Discovered?
This reading passage explains how Neptune, the eighth planet from the Sun, was discovered in 1846 by astronomers Johann ...
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The Diameter of Earth
This science reading passage explains the diameter of Earth, describing it as about 12,742 kilometers or 7,918 miles acr...
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Sun, Moon, and Stars
This engaging 1st-grade reading comprehension passage, 'The Sun, Moon, and Stars,' is perfectly aligned with NGSS Standa...
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The Mass of the Moon
This passage explains how the Moon’s mass is about 1/80th of Earth’s mass, giving it weaker gravity that affects how thi...
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The Mass of the Earth
This informational reading passage explains the mass of the Earth and its role in creating gravity, holding the atmosphe...
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How Do Solar Panels Work?
This middle school reading passage explains how solar panels work by turning sunlight into electricity. The passage desc...
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How Do Wind Turbines Work?
This NGSS-aligned reading passage for middle school students explains how wind turbines convert the energy of moving air...
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How Does a Hydroelectric Dam Work?
This NGSS-aligned science passage for middle school students explains how hydroelectric dams work to produce clean, rene...
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What Is Biofuel?
This NGSS-aligned middle school science passage explains what biofuel is, how it is made, and why it is important as a c...
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What Is Tidal Energy?
This engaging reading passage for middle school students introduces tidal energy, a form of renewable energy that uses t...
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What Is Wave Energy?
This passage introduces middle school students to wave energy—a clean, renewable energy source that comes from the movem...
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What Is Green Energy?
This science passage introduces middle school students to the concept of green energy—clean, renewable energy that comes...
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Does the Moon Face Change?
This engaging 1st-grade reading comprehension passage, 'The Moon's Changing Face,' is specifically designed to align wit...
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Measuring Hurricane Intensity – The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale
This NGSS-aligned science reading passage explains how the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is used to measure the in...
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What Is an Anthropogenic Pollutant?
This NGSS-aligned science passage explains what an anthropogenic pollutant is and how it affects Earth’s air, water, and...
Understanding Anthropogenic Climate Change
This NGSS-aligned science passage explains anthropogenic climate change in a way that’s accessible for middle school stu...
Why Are Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases Important?
This NGSS-aligned reading passage explains the importance of anthropogenic greenhouse gases and their role in climate ch...
What Are Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs)?
This NGSS-aligned middle school science passage explains Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) and how they help ...