edHelper.com Water Water Cycle

Water, Water Everywhere!

---

Water, Water Everywhere!
Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	high interest, readability grades 4 to 6
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	4.82

Vocabulary

challenging words:

droughts, budget, meters, outer, atmosphere, level, travel, underground, vapor, holds, liquid, specific, present, state, during, amount

---

Print Water, Water Everywhere!

Print Water, Water Everywhere!  (font options, pick words for additional puzzles, and more)

Quickly Print

Quickly print reading comprehension

Proofreading Activity

Print a proofreading activity

---

Feedback on Water, Water Everywhere!

Leave your feedback on Water, Water Everywhere!  (use this link if you found an error in the story)

---

Water, Water Everywhere! By Patti Hutchison

---

¹     If you were to travel into outer space and look back at the earth, it would look blue. Earth is called the blue planet because it is mostly covered with water. In fact, over seventy percent of the surface is covered by ocean water.
 
²     The oceans contain ninety-seven percent of Earth's water. The other three percent is fresh water. This water is found on and under the ground. It is also contained in the polar ice caps. The atmosphere also holds a tiny fraction of Earth's fresh water.
 
³     Water on Earth is constantly changing states of matter. It can be a solid, which is ice. It can be a liquid or a gas, which is water vapor. This is called the water cycle. Water evaporates, condenses, and falls back to Earth. But the total amount of water on Earth doesn't change much. This is because of nature's balancing act called the water budget.
 
⁴     You can think of the water budget as a kind of bank. When it rains, the water is collected. It goes into lakes and rivers. Or it seeps underground and is stored there. Water is deposited into the bank for us to use later.

Paragraphs 5 to 11:
For the complete story with questions: click here for printable

---

Weekly Reading Books

Create Weekly Reading Books Prepare for an entire week at once!

---

Water

Water

---

Water Cycle

Water Cycle

---

More Lessons

Special Education Science Materials for Teachers

---

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         Natural Disasters         Photosynthesis         Plant and Animal Cells         Plants         Rocks and Minerals         Science Process Skills         Seasons         Simple Machines         Solar System         Sound         Space and Stars         Tsunami         Volcanoes         Water Cycle         Water         Weather

---

More Activities, Lesson Plans, and Worksheets

Back to School Graphic Organizers Alphabet Worksheets Sight Words Math Worksheets Mazes 50 States Monthly Themes January February March April May June July August September October November December

Fractions Place Value Time and Calendar Money Earth Day Solar System Analogies Nouns Following Directions Listening Capitalization Cursive Writing Patterns and Sequencing Dinosaurs All About Me Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Sixth Grade

Multiplication Division Main Idea Cause and Effect Measurement Decimals Rounding Order of Operations Verbs Community Helpers Adjectives Plants Grammar Addition and Subtraction Contractions Bulletin Board Ideas Word Searches Crossword Puzzles Printable Puzzles Reading Comprehension Reading Skills English Language Arts

Copyright © 2011 edHelper