Earth's History Reading Passages| Printable & Digital | Immersive Reader
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About this Product
• This product includes reading passages with text-based comprehension questions.
• Comprehension questions probe lower, mid and higher order thinking.
• Passages can be used for close reading, one-on-one intervention, homework or sub work.
• Reading passages are standalone resources - no textbooks required!
• Reading passages align with my interactive notebook chapters.
• Answer key included.
Important Notes:
• Download FREE Reading Passages to learn more about my reading passages
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• Save $$$$ with the Integrated Science Complete Curriculum
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DISTANCE LEARNING - DIGITAL ASSIGNMENTS
This resource includes modified files that facilitate online - distance learning:
• Fillable slides designed to work with Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint
Important Notes about Fillable Slides:
• Digital assignments CANNOT be edited. Only the text boxes or forms can be manipulated.
• Each assignment is saved as an individual file with the key removed for easy distribution.
• Digital assignments work in both Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides
All Digital resources can be shared via platforms that are password-protected or accessible only to students.
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IMMERSIVE READER
This resource includes reading passages that can be read to a student with Microsoft’s Immersive Reader. Immersive-Reader compatible passages are read-only word documents accessed in a web browser. Internet access required. Students are provided links to the Immersive Reader compatible passages in the printable and digital versions of each activity.
Immersive reader is a FREE Microsoft educational tool. You do NOT need a Microsoft account to access this tool in a web browser. Learn more about Immersive Reader HERE.
Immersive Reader can:
• Read the entire passage to a student
• Help pronounce individual words in a passage as a student reads
• Translate the entire passage or individual words in the passage for ESL students
• Change the font, text color and background color for students with visual impairments
Additional Notes
• The video preview provides a brief overview of Immersive Reader's capability
• Written and video instructions for students are included: http://safesha.re/ppk
• Download a FREE unit of Immersive Reader compatible reading passages HERE.
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Topics Covered:
Passage #1: Geologic Time Scale
Passage #2: Early Earth (Precambrian)
Passage #3: History of Life on Earth
Passage #4: Mass Extinctions
Passage #5: Fossils
Passage #6: Types of Fossils
Passage #7: Index Fossils
Passage #8: Relative Dating
Passage #9: Absolute Dating
Passage #10: Studying Past Climate w/ Tree Rings
Passage #11: Studying Past Climate w/ Ice Cores
Purchasing Individual Passages
Reading passages are sold a la carte at $2.50 per passage. You can find individual passages by clicking on the hyperlinks above. If you plan to purchase more than half of the reading passages from this resource, it is more economical to purchase the entire unit of passages rather than passages individually.
Differentiation
A colored shape code is denoted to help you differentiate concepts:
• Reading passages with a green circle cover basic ideas and understandings.
• Reading passages with a blue square cover intermediate ideas and understandings.
• Reading passages with a black diamond cover advanced ideas and understandings.
Important Note: Some units of reading passages do not include all levels of differentiation. View the preview to see all passages included. The differentiation code is noted on each individual passage.
NGSS Alignment
This resource supports NGSS 4-ESS1-1 and MS-ESS1-4.
TERMS OF USE
• All rights reserved by Stephanie Elkowitz.
• This product is to be used by the original purchaser only.
• Intended for classroom and personal use only.
• Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited.
• This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view.
• Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).