About This Worksheet
This Grade 7 reading worksheet helps students compare how two informational texts explain different ways to fight climate change. One article focuses on large systems such as renewable energy, transportation changes, and government investment. The second article looks at smaller choices made by families and individuals, such as saving energy, reducing waste, and using public transportation. For example, building offshore wind farms is a large-scale solution, while turning off unused lights is an everyday action.
Learning Goals
The main goal is to help students compare central ideas across two texts about the same broad issue. Students should already know how to identify a main idea and locate details that support it. This activity moves them toward explaining how different authors can approach one topic from different angles. It supports CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.9, which asks seventh graders to analyze how multiple texts present information on the same subject.
Student Tasks
On this worksheet, students will read two articles about possible solutions to climate change. They will complete a comparison chart showing how the texts are alike and how their main ideas differ. Students must pay attention to the scale of each solution and the people responsible for carrying it out. Their answers should use details from both passages rather than describing only one article.
Common Challenges
Some students may say both texts are simply “about climate change” without explaining the real difference between them. Others may treat individual actions and large government projects as completely unrelated. Remind students that the texts share one goal but focus on different levels of action. A helpful prompt is, “Who is expected to make the change in each article?”
Teaching Suggestions
A teacher can divide the board into large-scale solutions and everyday solutions before students begin reading. As the class finds examples, place each one in the correct area and discuss how both types can work together. At home, a parent can ask the child which actions require governments or companies and which can begin inside a household. This simple sorting activity makes the contrast between the two texts much easier to explain.
Worksheet Features
The page includes two clearly labeled articles that address one shared environmental concern. Each passage has a strong central idea and several concrete examples that support it. A comparison organizer guides students toward looking at similarities and differences instead of writing two separate summaries. The worksheet works well for environmental science connections, paired reading, homework, or test preparation.