NGSS Middle School Science Reading Passages Life Science Earth Science Physical Science

Learn about the scientific method, variables and controls, and accuracy and reproducibility through this science reading expository text with a note-taking template that guides the students, comprehension worksheets that have leveled questions, and Task cards to extend the learning. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.

This will guide students through reading information about chemical bonding, ionic compounds, and covalent compounds with note-taking templates. They then have to apply their knowledge by answering leveled questions in the comprehension worksheets that accompany them and task card questions. 

Looking for a way to increase science reading comprehension and science literacy in your classroom? Help your students learn all about the type of waves including longitudinal and transverse waves, and how to measure wave properties including wave speed, frequency, and wavelength with note-taking templates that guide the students, comprehension worksheets that have leveled questions, and Task cards to extend the learning. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.

Looking for a way to increase science reading comprehension and science literacy in your classroom? Help your students learn all about friction, fluid friction, air resistance, gravity, the elastic forces of tension and compression, and buoyant force with these motion science reading comprehension passages with note-taking templates that guide the students, comprehension worksheets that have leveled questions, and Task cards to extend the learning. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.

Looking for a way to increase science reading comprehension and science literacy in your classroom? Help your students learn all about thermal energy transfer through conduction, convection, and radiation with this thermal energy comprehension reading passage with note-taking templates that guide the students, comprehension worksheets that have leveled questions, and Task cards to extend the learning. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.

Help students understand how synthetic materials are made from natural resources and their impact on society with science reading passages aligned to NGSS MS PS1-3.

Looking for a way to increase science reading comprehension and science literacy in your classroom? Help your students learn all about the three main states of matter (solid, liquid, and gas) and how they change from one state to another with this science reading comprehension passages with note-taking templates that guide the students, comprehension worksheets that have leveled questions, and Task cards to extend the learning. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.

Help students understand the behavior of light and sound waves through science readings on reflection, absorption, and transmission. Aligned to MS‑PS4‑2.

Looking for a way to increase science reading comprehension and science literacy in your classroom? Help your students learn all about the periodic table of elements with this science reading comprehension passages with note-taking templates that guide the students, comprehension worksheets that have leveled questions, and Task cards to extend the learning. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.

Looking for a way to increase science reading comprehension and science literacy in your classroom? Help your students learn all Newton's 1st law, 2nd law, and 3rd law of motion with this science reading comprehension passages with note-taking templates that guide the students, comprehension worksheets that have leveled questions, and Task cards to extend the learning. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.

Looking for a way to increase science reading comprehension and science literacy in your classroom? Help your students learn all about speed, velocity, acceleration, and motion graphs with these motion science reading comprehension passages with note-taking templates that guide the students, comprehension worksheets that have leveled questions, and Task cards to extend the learning. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.

Looking for a way to increase science reading comprehension and science literacy in your classroom? Help your students learn all about how to measure matter including volume of regular and irregular solids and density with this science reading comprehension passages with note-taking templates that guide the students, comprehension worksheets that have leveled questions, and Task cards to extend the learning. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.

Help students explore light waves and how they behave through reflection, refraction, transmission, and absorption with science reading passages aligned to MS‑PS4‑2.

Help students grasp key gas laws using science reading passages that explain Charles Law, Boyles Law, and Gay-Lussacs Law in clear and engaging terms.

This science reading will guide students through reading information about potential energy, kinetic energy, and conservation of energy with note-taking templates. They then have to apply their knowledge by answering leveled questions in the comprehension worksheets that accompany them and task card questions. 

Help students explore electromagnetism, electric forces, and magnetic forces with science reading passages aligned to MS‑PS2-3.

This will guide students through reading information about chemical bonding, ionic compounds, and covalent compounds with note-taking templates. They then have to apply their knowledge by answering leveled questions in the comprehension worksheets that accompany them and task card questions. 

Learn about chemical changes, exothermic and endothermic, and chemical equations through this science reading expository text with a note-taking template that guides the students. Check their knowledge with comprehension worksheets that have leveled questions, and Task cards to extend the learning.

Learn about atoms and isotopes through this science reading expository text with a note-taking template that guides the students, comprehension worksheets that have leveled questions, and Task cards to extend the learning. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.

Help students explore digital and analog signals with science reading passages aligned to MS-PS4-3.

Learn about Acids and Bases and the pH scale through this science reading expository text with a note-taking template that guides the students, comprehension worksheets that have leveled questions, and Task cards to extend the learning. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.

This print-and-digital types of ecosystems resource includes everything you need to teach terrestrial, freshwater, and aquatic ecosystems while building science reading comprehension skills in your middle school classroom. Alliged for NGSS MS-LS2-2

Help students explore asexual and sexual reproduction with mutations in these science reading passages aligned to MS-LS3-1 and MS-LS3-2

Engage students with readable passages that explore human body levels of organization: cells, tissues, organs, and systems. NGSS MS‑LS1‑3 aligned.

This science reading will guide students through reading information about genetics including, Mendel and heredity, Punnett squares, and meiosis using the note-taking templates. They then have to apply their knowledge by answering leveled questions in the comprehension worksheets that accompany them. And then extend their learning with the task card questions. Paper and Digital version included.

This science reading will guide students through reading information about Darwin and natural selection, speciation, extinction, taxonomy, and cladograms with note-taking templates. They then have to apply their knowledge by answering leveled questions in the comprehension worksheets that accompany them and task card questions. 

Help students explore evidence of evolution: comparative anatomy, embryology, and fossils with these science reading passages aligned to MS-LS4-1, MS-LS4-2, MS-LS4-3.

Simplify complex science topics with clear reading passages on food chains and food webs. Designed for middle school and aligned to NGSS LS2-3.

This science reading will guide students through reading information about cellular energy including photosynthesis and cellular respiration with note-taking templates. They then have to apply their knowledge by answering leveled questions in the comprehension worksheets that accompany them and task card questions.

Help students learn about cell theory, the types of cells (prokaryote and eukaryote), and the difference between animal and plant cells through this science reading expository text with a note-taking template that guides the students, comprehension worksheets that have leveled questions, and Task cards to extend the learning.

Support student understanding of how adaptations aid plant reproduction and animal reproduction. Includes science readings and worksheets aligned to MS‑LS1‑4.

Support your middle school students as they explore the water cycle and its impact on weather. Aligned to NGSS MS-ESS2-4 and MS-ESS2-5.

Looking for a way to increase science reading comprehension and science literacy in your classroom? Help your students learn all about the life cycle of stars, characteristics of stars, and galaxies with these science reading comprehension passages with note-taking templates that guide the students, comprehension worksheets that have leveled questions including differentiated handouts of the H-R diagram, and Task cards to extend the learning. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.

Looking for a way to increase science reading comprehension and science literacy in your classroom? Help your students learn all about how the solar system was formed, the inner planets, outer planets, and other objects in the solar system with these science reading comprehension passages with note-taking templates that guide the students, comprehension worksheets that have leveled questions, and Task cards to extend the learning. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.

Support comprehension of the rock cycle using science reading passages on igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, and metamorphic rocks. MS-ESS2-1 aligned.

Engage students with science readings on plate tectonics, including transform, divergent, and convergent boundaries, mountain formation, and sea floor spreading. NGSS MS‑ESS2‑3 aligned.

Engage middle school students with science reading passages on natural hazards. Covers typhoons, volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and floods. MS-ESS3-2 aligned.

Engage students in reading about human population growth and its effects on Earth. NGSS MS-ESS3-4 aligned science comprehension resource.

Support student understanding of human impact on nonrenewable resources, fossil fuel formation and mineral use with science reading passages aligned to MS‑ESS3‑1.

Support student understanding of climate change and human impact on Earth’s systems with NGSS MS-ESS3-5 science readings on global warming and human activity.

Help middle school students understand how convection currents, the Coriolis effect and global winds shape Earth’s climate. Aligned to NGSS MS‑ESS2‑6.

Teach how geoscience processes change Earth with NGSS MS-ESS2-2 aligned readings on weathering, erosion, earthquakes, and volcanoes.

Guide students through the geologic time scale and structural clues like faults and intrusions with science reading passages aligned to MS ESS1 4.

Support student understanding of moon phases, eclipses, and seasons using middle school science readings aligned to NGSS MS-ESS1-1.