Grade 4 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
Ocean Animal Adaptations
Students will read a passage that provides information about various adaptations that marine animals have developed to t...
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Ocean Acidification
Download this reading comprehension worksheet about ocean acidification. The worksheet includes an informational text ab...
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The Space Needle
Students read a passage about the history and features of Seattle's Space Needle, then answer comprehension questions to...
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Main causes of a heat dome?
Heat domes are caused by specific atmospheric patterns, primarily involving high-pressure systems. These high-pressure a...
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The Phosphorus Cycle
The phosphorus cycle explains how phosphorus moves through rocks, soil, water, and living things. Essential for DNA and ...
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Natural Disaster: Droughts
Droughts are long periods with insufficient water, leading to crop failures and water shortages. Conserving water and pl...
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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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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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Health Risks of Heat Domes
Heat domes pose significant health risks as our bodies struggle to maintain a safe temperature in extreme heat. Dehydrat...
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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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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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Natural Disaster: Tornadoes
Tornadoes are dangerous spinning columns of air. Knowing the signs and having safety plans can help protect you from the...
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Natural Disaster: Hurricanes
Hurricanes are massive storms with strong winds and rain. Tracking and preparing for them helps protect people in their ...
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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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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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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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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 an Atmospheric Physicist?
This NGSS-aligned middle school science passage introduces students to the role of an atmospheric physicist. It explains...
What Is a Physical Oceanographer?
This NGSS-aligned passage introduces middle school students to physical oceanography—the study of how ocean water moves ...
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...
How Does a Hurricane Form?
This NGSS-aligned reading passage explains how hurricanes form over warm ocean waters. Students will learn about key con...
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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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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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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