How Safe Is the Air?

Easy News Stories

Beg – Low Int
Teens & Adults
Grades 4–12

In this lesson featuring content adapted from The Associated Press, students read a true story about air quality and the system for measuring it. Students review vocabulary and answer comprehension questions.

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Focus

authentic materials
reading
air quality
pollution
wildfires
interpretive

Vocabulary

air purifier
itchy
N95 mask
particle
smoke
lungs
exercise
wildfire
pollution
A spinning paper plane
A spinning paper plane