Solar Eclipse Reading Comprehension Passage - DIGITAL

Are you searching for a solar eclipse reading comprehension passage and questions that are accessible to all your students? This Solar Eclipse Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions resource is differentiated and scaffolded to provide access to all students.

The Solar Eclipse Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions resource includes:

• Differentiated & scaffolded text about solar eclipses
• Text-dependent questions that promote critical thinking
• A writing activity
• An answer key for easy grading/formative assessment
• A lesson plan (including objectives and standards) for step-by-step instructions
• Google Slides version for assigning digitally (if you'd prefer the PDF version click here).

⭐️We believe in making grade-level science reading comprehension accessible and empowering for all students. To meet the diverse needs of your students, this resource includes the following scaffolds⭐️

Page numbers include two different fruits as labels for the different student packets: Apples & Oranges.

1. Apple version: Provides the least amount of support.
1. Space in the margins for annotations
2. Questions appear after a chunk of text. 

2. Orange version: Provides the most support. Created with newcomer English learners in mind. This version includes:

1. Additional visuals embedded in the margins to assist with comprehension
2. Student-friendly definitions in the margins of the text
3. Sentence frames for answering text-dependent questions

*PLEASE NOTE: This resource has been created in landscape (11 x 8.5) to allow for more space for the text and students' responses. Students can type all their responses directly in the text boxes in the Google Slides.

Why is The Solar Eclipse Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions resource perfect for your classroom?

✅ Opportunities for direct instruction, small group work & individual work

✅ Accessible to your diverse body of learners (Including your English learners)

✅ Supports students at all levels to access grade-level text

✅ Supports students in the skill of reading to learn/reading comprehension

✅ Saves you HOURS typically spent researching and modifying text

✅ Great for science, ESL/ENL/TESOL, & resource room teachers

✅ Connected to current events or your current Earth and space unit

⭐️STANDARDS-ALIGNED⭐️

✅  MS-ESS1-1.Develop and use a model of the Earth-sun-moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons.

✅ RI.7.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

✅W.7.2d Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.

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❤️ “I appreciated the scaffolded version for my resource students."

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Thank you for considering our Solar Eclipse Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions resource. We hope it empowers, encourages, and provides access to grade-level science for all students.

Thanks for all you do,

Jessica

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