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Magnets Push and Pull

Grade 2 informational reading: an original article about magnets, with context-clue questions on words like attract, repel and budge.

Grade 2ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRI.2.4

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students use clues in an informational text to work out the meaning of words and phrases.
Students show they understand new science words by using them in new sentences.

How to use

Read the article aloud once, then have students reread each paragraph named in a question and look for the clue words before they answer.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RI.2.4

Work out the meaning of words and phrases in a text on a grade 2 topic or subject area.

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Magnets Push and Pull

Use clues in a science article to work out new words.

Read the article

Read the article about magnets.

Magnets Push and Pull

1Have you ever used a magnet to hang a drawing on a refrigerator? A magnet is an object that can pull some things toward it. Magnets come in many shapes, such as bars, rings and horseshoes.

2When a magnet pulls something toward it, we say the magnet attracts it. Magnets attract things made of iron or steel, such as paper clips and nails. They do not attract paper, wood, plastic or glass.

3A magnet does not attract every kind of metal. Hold a magnet close to a ball of foil or a penny. The foil and the penny will not budge. They do not move even a tiny bit.

4Every magnet has two ends called poles. One is the north pole, and the other is the south pole. When the north pole of one magnet comes near the south pole of another, the magnets snap together. When two north poles come near each other, the magnets repel, or push away from each other.

5A magnet's pull can pass through some thin things. You can make a paper clip glide across a paper plate by moving a magnet under the plate.

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