Close Reading Passages and Tasks about STRANGE RAIN

This is a set of 20 informational, high-interest close reading comprehension passages about strange rain and things that have fallen from the sky.

These are the perfect low-prep, high interest way to encourage your students’ close reading, comprehension skills!

These are strange, true events: some have explanations, others are still mysteries.

What’s included?

20 passages about strange and weird things that have fallen from the sky: rain, water cycle, types of precipitation, fish, meat, frogs, worms, spiders, red rain, tadpoles, golf balls, iguanas, fruit and vegetables, raw seafood, jelly, drones, meteorites, cows, money, space junk

70 Task cards:

• Each text has its own worksheet with questions, vocabulary, tasks to increase comprehension skills and strategies
• There is a general worksheet that suits all texts
• A graphing task sheet
• A set of blank interactive pages, that can be made into a book
• 4 QR Codes for video of weird rain (urls too, in case you find it easier)
• A review sheet for the video
• 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.