Solar System | 10 Science Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions UPDATED

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The Solar system is an incredible place to learn about from The Sun itself to planetary rings, to dwarf planets on the fringes of where we live in our galactic bubble. Now, even including Apollo 11, Mars rovers and Jupiter's moons as well! Plus even more. So diving into the content with this 10 article set seems like a great idea. Now with 4 dual reading passages with questions that have additional reading passages to enhance differentiation as well.

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

THESE UPDATED SOLAR SYSTEM ARTICLES 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 THESE SOLAR SYSTEM ARTICLES:

Single Reading Passages

6 - 3 page Word doc teacher version with answers
6 - 2 page Word doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
6 - 3 page PDF teacher version with answers
6 - 2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so)
6 - 3 page Google doc teacher version with answers
6 - 2 page Google doc student version with room to fill answers (text boxes)

Dual Reading Passages (2 passages on these topics for differentiation)

4 - 2 x 3 page Word doc image - textboxes teacher version with answers
4 - 2 x 2 page Word doc image - textboxes student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
4 - 2 x 3 page PDF teacher version with answers
4 - 2 x 2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so)
4 - 2 x 3 page Google doc image - textboxes teacher version with answers
4 - 2 x 2 page Google doc image - textboxes student version with room to fill answers (text boxes)

The Dual Reading Passages topics are: Jupiter's red spot, The Sun, Planetary rings and Dwarf planets.

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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).