What is recycling, and why is it important? — Reading Comprehension
Grades
2
3
4
Standards
RI.3.1
RI.4.1
4.ESS2.D
4-ESS3
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About This Reader
This passage introduces the concept of recycling to children. It explains recycling as the process of turning used materials into new products. The text lists common recyclable items and highlights how recycling saves energy, conserves resources, and reduces landfill waste. It connects recycling to reduced greenhouse gas emissions from landfills and the conservation of natural resources like trees and minerals. By emphasizing how recycling is an everyday action that helps protect the environment, the passage encourages children to participate in and understand the importance of recycling practices.
Recycling means turning used materials into new products. Instead of throwing things away, we can recycle many items like paper, plastic, glass, and metal. This helps save energy and resources. Making new products from recycled materials often uses less energy than making them from new materials. Recycling also reduces the amount of waste in landfills. Less waste means less harmful greenhouse gases produced by landfills. Recycling helps conserve natural resources like trees, oil, and minerals. It's an important way we can help protect our environment every day.
What does recycling do with used materials?
Burns themBuries them in the groundTurns them into new productsThrows them in the oceanWhich of these can usually be recycled?
Food scrapsUsed tissuesPlastic, glass, and metalBroken toysHow does recycling help save energy?
It doesn't save energyMaking products from recycled materials often uses less energyRecycling creates new energyRecycled products power our homesHow does recycling help landfills?
It makes landfills biggerIt reduces the amount of waste in landfillsIt turns landfills into parksIt makes landfills produce clean airCommon Core Standards Covered
RI.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
RI.4.1
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Grade Levels:
Grade 2Grade 3Grade 4
Subjects:
elareadingscienceclimate change
