Artificial Preservatives - Digital Science Reading Article - Grades 5-7

Artificial Preservatives. This resource is suitable for high school students as well as strong middle-school students. Tackle literacy and science by having your students read and answer questions from a scientific article. Questions include knowledge (direct from the paper), thinking, connecting, application and open-ended varieties.

No prep, no formatting, no issues. Simply download, print (or upload to your class site) and you're all set.

To give you an accurate idea of what this resource includes, I've included the complete versions of two other readings as the SAMPLE FILE - The Common Cold and Climate Change. You can also see exactly what the reading looks like in the Preview images.

This resource is fully editable for your convenience

This resource covers the following topics:

- What are artificial preservatives?

- What are the different kinds of artificial preservatives?

- Is there a difference between additives and artificial preservatives?

- Are artificial preservatives harmful?

- Examples of artificial preservatives.

- Future application

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The Problems You Face

- Not having the time to properly teach scientific literacy (disciplinary literacy) or improve your students reading comprehension and analysis skills.

- Some students work faster than others and you would like an interesting extension activity for your faster-moving students to keep them learning and engaged.

The Solution

This fully editable, NO PREP reading comprehension article is composed of relevant, applicable and engaging reading activities which can be used to:

• introduce your topic

• improve your students literacy skills

• improve your students reading comprehension and scientific literacy skills

• improve your student's analysis skills

• provide an extension activity to students who move at a faster pace

• provide extra credit to students in need

• measure your students literacy skills

Furthermore, this resource works very well as an emergency substitute plan as it will keep your students on task and focused while you are away.

This resource will take your students between 40-60 minutes to complete and includes a variety of questions. An answer key is also included for your reference.

1 zip file with:

-Reading passage as a DOC and PDF

-Comprehension questions w/ Answer Key

-Google Reading Access PDF