Reading Comprehension - "Outfoxing the Freeze" Article

This short reading comprehension activity is designed to help younger elementary students practice reading and answering questions about an article they have read.

There are two pages of questions on sheets with a colorful border as well as two pictures of arctic foxes, one showing how they look in the warm months, and one showing how they look in the winter. Questions include:

1. Word completion

2. Fill in the blank

3. Open-ended questions

4. Drawing opportunities

Students will read the article and answer the questions, either alone or as a team. When the reader clicks on the article link, it will take them to the website where the article is. Note, that it is a creation science website, and God and the Bible will be mentioned.

There is an audio of the article available on the website so that the students also have the option to listen to the article. This will especially helpful if students haven't learned to read yet or if they are visually impaired. Audio of the article can increase literacy because the students can listen to the article while reading it visually as well.

The questions will help the students find facts in the "Outfoxing the Freeze" article. This is a reading, writing, as well as life science type activity. The teacher can choose to have the students write the facts on the lines given or ask them to draw a picture of what they remember after reading the article.

The article link is in the activity pack, the title of the article is "Outfoxing the Fox" and discusses ways that the arctic fox survives extreme temperatures in regions where lives.

You can read with the students or have them read the article on their own, depending on their reading level. The answer key is included.

Critical thinking will also be practiced because the students get to choose which facts they want to list, talk about, or draw about.