How Can Deserts Get Bigger | Science Reading Comprehension 2 Passage & Questions

Learning about how deserts grow and why they expand helps students understand the fragile balance between land, weather, and human activities. This knowledge can inspire them to think about ways to protect the environment and practice sustainable methods in farming, resource use, and community planning. It also shows them how their actions can affect ecosystems around the world, highlighting the importance of working together to prevent further desert expansion. By integrating a reading comprehension passage on how deserts can get bigger, you can provide students at different readiness levels with texts of varying complexity, ensuring that both more and less advanced learners engage meaningfully with the material.

This tiered approach—offering two sets of guiding reading and questions tailored to each text—builds foundational skills in reading, critical thinking, and scientific inquiry, so you can use the right one for you.

This 2 article set of growing deserts articles provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can help your students learn all about growing deserts. For digital, you can provide a Google doc copy for ease of submission or a Microsoft word version as well. In this growing deserts article with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking.

For many educational standards, a base level of content knowledge is needed around the relevant topics, this growing deserts article covers that foundational knowledge for the standards: MS-ESS2-2 | MS-ESS3-4 | MS-LS2-5.

THIS HOW DO DESERTS GET BIGGER? 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 HOW DO DESERTS GET BIGGER? ARTICLE:

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

Please note: That the Doc versions are images with editable text boxes overlayed on top and this is the most effective way to keep the article sleek and well-designed and also that students cannot change things significantly.

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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).