Close Reading Passages and Tasks about RAIN

There are ten close reading comprehension passages, which are the perfect low-prep, high interest way to encourage your students’ close reading, comprehension skills! These are informational, non-fiction texts all about rain, so will correlate with science topics very well.

What’s included?

10 Text topics: these are short passages

• shape of raindrops
• measuring rainfall
• place with least rainfall
• place with highest rainfall
• power of rain and water
• clouds
• has it always rained?
• how to stay dry
• smell of rain
• types of precipitation

70 Task cards:

• Each text has 7 task cards: tasks vary: questions, vocabulary, comprehension skills, QR codes, thinking, writing, reviews
• urls for QR Codes, in case you find it easier
• A review sheet for the videos
• A world map needed for one task
• A recording sheet for students to keep track of completed tasks

These could be used as small group activities. They can read, discuss and complete texts and tasks.

This topic is interesting: using a familiar topic to students, then inciting imagination and encouraging scientific and creative thinking.