Informational Reading Comprehension: Where Are the Stars?

Read an enlightening passage about light pollution and learn ways to bring back the dark night skies! Designed for seventh- and eighth-grade students, this three-page worksheet features an original nonfiction text along with standards-based comprehension questions. After reading this fascinating piece about our night skies, students will get to practice a variety of essential reading comprehension skills, including citing text evidence, making inferences, summarizing a text, finding the main idea, and determining the meaning of words and phrases in context.