Sample The Story Behind Our Seasons Worksheet
Reading Comprehension Worksheets

edHelper.com Subscribers:
Build a printable worksheet with the complete story and puzzles
Build a proofreading activity

 

The Story Behind Our Seasons
By Laura G. Smith
  

1     Maybe the summer season is your favorite time of year - school's out, the weather's warm - you might take a trip to the beach or hang out at your neighborhood pool. The fall season usually makes us think of leaves changing colors or the kick-off of a new football season. Then the winter months follow, bringing colder air and maybe snow for sledding or an icy pond for skating. Maybe spring is the season you look forward to the most! The blossoming trees and flowers can surely brighten things up after the drab, gray days of winter. All four of the seasons display their own unique characteristics, but what causes the change?
 
2     There are two things that cause the change in seasons: the Earth's orbit (the path it travels around the sun), and the tilt of the Earth's axis (which is at an angle of 23.5 degrees).
 
3     It takes the Earth one year to make a single orbit (or revolution). At the same time the Earth is revolving around the sun, it is also spinning (or rotating) on its axis. The Earth completes one rotation every 24 hours.

Paragraphs 4 to 7:
For the complete story with questions: click here for printable



Weekly Reading Books

          Create Weekly Reading Books

Prepare for an entire week at once!


Feedback on The Story Behind Our Seasons
Leave your feedback on The Story Behind Our Seasons   (use this link if you found an error in the story)



More Lessons
             Solar System and Planets
             Free Four Seasons Worksheets | edHelper.com


Science
             Science


    Careers in Science  
 
    Caring for Earth  
 
    Clouds  
 
    Dinosaurs  
 
    Earth's Land  
 
    Earth  
 
    Earthquakes  
 
    Electricity  
 
    Energy  
 
    Erosion  
 
    Food Pyramid  
 
    Food Webs and Food Chain  
 
    Forces and Motion  
 
    Fossils  
 
    Health and Nutrition  
 
    How Things Work  
 
    Landforms  
 
    Life Science  
 
    Light  
 
    Magnets  
 
    Matter  
 
 
    Moon  
 
    Natural Disasters  
 
    Photosynthesis  
 
    Plant and Animal Cells  
 
    Plants  
 
    Rocks and Minerals  
 
    Science Process Skills  
 
    Scientific Notation  
 
    Seasons  
 
    Simple Machines  
 
    Soil  
 
    Solar System  
 
    Sound  
 
    Space and Stars  
 
    Sun  
 
    Tsunami  
 
    Volcanoes  
 
    Water Cycle  
 
    Water  
 
    Weather  
 



Copyright © 2018 edHelper