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Practise locating ideas, facts and relationships in expository texts. Choose by topic and ask learners to point to evidence before writing.

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Slowing Food Spoilage

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

Food spoils when microbes, such as moulds and bacteria, grow in it. Natural substances called enzymes can also change its colour, taste and texture. Preservation methods slow spoilage by making conditions less suitable…

Level
Primary
Words
140 words
Questions
2 comp · 1 refl · 1 opin
Language
English
Text commentaries English

Why a Metal Spoon Warms Up

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

When a metal spoon stirs hot soup, the soup is warmer than the spoon. Energy passes from the soup to the part of the spoon beneath the surface. This transfer of energy caused by a difference in temperature is called hea…

Level
Primary
Words
132 words
Questions
2 comp · 1 refl · 1 opin
Language
English
Text commentaries English

How Scale Changes a Map

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

A scale tells us how a distance on a map matches the real distance on the ground. For example, two maps may be printed on sheets of the same size but represent very different areas. On the town map, 1 centimetre repres…

Level
Primary
Words
127 words
Questions
2 comp · 1 refl · 1 opin
Language
English
Text commentaries English

How Food-Preservation Methods Slow Spoilage

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

Food spoils when bacteria, moulds and yeasts multiply, or when enzymes and chemical reactions alter its colour, flavour and texture. Preservation slows one or more of these changes; it does not necessarily kill every mi…

Level
Secondary
Words
186 words
Questions
2 comp · 1 refl · 1 opin
Language
English
Text commentaries English

Why a Metal Spoon Warms Up in Soup

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

When a metal spoon at room temperature is placed in hot soup, the part under the surface soon warms up. Because the soup is at a higher temperature, energy moves from the soup into the cooler spoon. Heat is the transfer…

Level
Secondary
Words
212 words
Questions
2 comp · 1 refl · 1 opin
Language
English
Text commentaries English

The Same Place at Different Scales

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

A map cannot show a place exactly as it appears on the ground. Its scale determines how distances are reduced and, therefore, which features can be represented clearly. Scale expresses the relationship between a distanc…

Level
Secondary
Words
211 words
Questions
2 comp · 1 refl · 1 opin
Language
English
Text commentaries English

How Food-Preservation Methods Slow Spoilage

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

Food spoils when microorganisms grow, natural enzymes alter its tissues, or oxygen causes chemical changes such as fats becoming rancid. Preservation methods slow one or more of these processes, but they do not make eve…

Level
High school
Words
252 words
Questions
2 comp · 1 refl · 1 opin
Language
English
Text commentaries English

Why a Metal Spoon Warms Up When Stirring Soup

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

When a metal spoon is placed in hot soup, the immersed end warms first. The soup is at a higher temperature than the spoon, so energy passes from the soup to the metal. This energy in transfer because of a temperature d…

Level
High school
Words
257 words
Questions
2 comp · 1 refl · 1 opin
Language
English
Text commentaries English

How Map Scale Changes Representation

Readings with comprehension, reflection, and opinion questions on ready-to-print worksheets.

Map scale expresses the relationship between a distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground. A scale of 1:10,000 means that one unit measured on the map represents 10,000 of the same units on the groun…

Level
High school
Words
257 words
Questions
2 comp · 1 refl · 1 opin
Language
English
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