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Ways to help at home, from reading together to routines.
- From River to Tap: Cleaning Water Step by Step: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about how drinking water is cleaned for 6th grade, 226 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- The Water That Is Neither Fresh Nor Salty: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about estuaries and brackish water for 6th grade, 242 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- The Chilly Layer Beneath the Warm Sea: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about temperature layers in the ocean for 6th grade, 238 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Why Some Mountain Lakes Glow Turquoise: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about glacier lakes and their color for 6th grade, 224 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Catching Drinking Water With Fog Nets: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about collecting water from fog for 6th grade, 240 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Aspen Groves: Many Trunks, One Root System: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about quaking aspen groves for 6th grade, 213 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Cork: Bark That Grows Back: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about cork oak bark for 6th grade, 224 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Lichen: A Rock Crust Made by Two Partners: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about lichens on rocks for 6th grade, 222 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- A Vault of Seeds for a Rainy Day: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about seed banks for 6th grade, 223 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Root a Pothos Cutting in a Jar: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about growing a plant from a cutting for 6th grade, 223 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Hitchhiking Burrs and the Idea Behind Velcro: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about burrs and seed spreading for 6th grade, 224 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- The Milky Sap Behind Rubber Bands: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about natural rubber from trees for 6th grade, 213 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Indigo: The Leaf That Turns Blue in Air: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about indigo and plant dye for 6th grade, 233 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- The Sensitive Plant That Folds Its Leaves: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about plants that move when touched for 6th grade, 228 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Peat Bogs: Wet Ground That Saves Old Plants: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about peat bogs and sphagnum moss for 6th grade, 241 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- A Butterscotch Sky Over Mars: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about sky colors on mars for 6th grade, 239 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Bouncing Lasers Off Mirrors on the Moon: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about measuring the distance to the moon for 6th grade, 224 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- A Gold Record Sent Toward the Stars: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about the voyager gold records for 6th grade, 220 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Venus Changed Shape Through Galileo's Telescope: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about the phases of venus for 6th grade, 246 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Finding Neptune With Pencil and Paper: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about the discovery of neptune for 6th grade, 241 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- The Small Moon That Sprays Ice Into Space: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about icy jets on saturn's moon enceladus for 6th grade, 244 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Scooping a Handful of Dust From Bennu: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about collecting an asteroid sample for 6th grade, 240 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Winter Comes When Earth Is Closest to the Sun: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about why we have seasons for 6th grade, 247 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Two Shadows Helped Measure the Whole Earth: 6th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about measuring earth with shadows for 6th grade, 237 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.