Decomposers | Biology Reading Comprehension Passage & Questions FREE

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Studying decomposers helps students connect food webs, soil health, and the carbon and nitrogen cycles to everyday evidence, showing how fungi, bacteria, and detritivores recycle nutrients that plants and animals depend on. A focused reading passage with questions gives every learner a clear path to mastery by preparing them to learn about how decomposition rates change with temperature and moisture, why humus stores water and minerals, and how composting models ecosystem processes. The passage includes an engaging image and with scaffolded questions that move from recall to cause and effect to interpreting evidence and making claims. This format aligns naturally with NGSS MS-LS2 and HS-LS2, strengthens science literacy, and turns familiar examples like leaf litter and school compost bins into compelling, evidence based learning that teachers can plug into ecology or sustainability units.

This decomposers science article provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can help your students learn all about decomposers. For digital, you can provide a Google doc copy for ease of submission or a Microsoft word version as well. In this decomposers article with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking.

THIS DECOMPOSERS ARTICLE CAN BE USED SO MANY WAYS:

Useful for substitute (sub) teaching
To extend students
To increase scientific literacy in your class
A weekly reading task
Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast
To inspire students on a particular topic
Give a selection of these articles for students to choose from

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS DECOMPOSERS ARTICLE:

3 page Word doc teacher version with answers
2 page Word doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
3 page PDF teacher version with answers
2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so)
3 page Google doc teacher version with answers
2 page Google doc student version with room to fill answers (text boxes)

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I am very proud of this series of science articles and they are rich with information and wonder at the majesty of science. Each science article includes a fun fact(s) to add to the knowledge gained from this article. Formatted in an easy to read and digest manner, each paragraph is numbered to help with referencing and each question answer has a paragraph reference number to point to the specific information (where applicable).