Climate Change Reading Comprehension Article
- Grades
- Grades 8–10
- Pages
- 10
- File type
- Multiple File Types
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- Science, Reading Comprehension
- Topic
- Climate, Change
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- Answer key
- Included
- Standards
- CCSS.RI.8.1
Product description
From the author
Use this climate-change reading with Grade 8 and older learners to combine science comprehension and written reasoning. The five-page article introduces climate, temperature measurement, greenhouse gases, impacts and responses.
The main PDF has ten pages, including the article, twelve prompts, answer guidance, references and a final blank page. Six questions use the article, three use a linked video and three extend the discussion. The final activity asks students to plan a short commercial for a Grade 3 audience.
Editable Word and linked Google Docs versions are included. Check video access before assigning its questions. Numerical examples reflect the original publication period; select and adapt the activities for your class.
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Learning objectives
Explain the difference between weather, climate, and long-term natural climate cycles.
Describe how average global temperature is measured and why current warming is attributed to human activity.
Create a short persuasive commercial about climate change pitched to a specified audience (a grade-3 class).
Teaching tips
Check the linked video before assigning questions 7–9. Use the article questions and extensions independently if the video is unavailable.
Use the Word file to adapt the reading or question set. The numerical examples reflect the article’s original publication period.
Have students plan the short climate-change commercial for its stated Grade 3 audience.
Skills covered
Scientific text comprehension — students answer six questions directly from the article, citing facts such as measured CO2 levels and named emission sources.
Cross-source synthesis — students answer three additional questions using a linked video rather than the printed article.
Audience-aware persuasive communication — students script a short commercial about climate change pitched specifically to a grade-3 audience.
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Why can't all twelve questions be answered from the article alone?
Questions 7 through 9 are tied to a separate linked video on sea ice and sea-level impacts, so students need to watch that video in addition to reading the article before completing the full question set.
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Standards
Standards
- CCSS.RI.8.1 — Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Core concepts
Core concepts
Greenhouse effect
Anthropogenic climate change
Global temperature measurement
Carbon emissions
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