Space, Solar System, Planets Reading Passages and Worksheets for First Grade

Space, planets, and all about the moon explained with a non-fiction story, for children in kindergarten and first grade. This unit also includes activities, worksheets, and crafts to help young learners practice reading, writing, understand, and remember key facts about the solar system.

This outer space unit is a perfect supplemental resource to use for 2nd and 3rd grade lessons on the solar system. The worksheets and passages cover a variety of topics about space, such as the solar system, all the planets, the inner and outer solar systems, the sun, moon, and stars, asteroids, astronauts, and more. There are different types of resources, too. There are reading comprehension passages about space, graphic organizers, writing pages activities, and even a few fold-and-go mini books!

*There is now a digital component included in this resource. The graphic organizers, reading passages and writing pages activities

Space and Solar System Topics covered include:

• Solar System General Information
• Each planet
• Inner Solar System
• Outer Solar System

Things in Space

• Moon

• Moon Phases

• The Sun

• Astronauts

• Asteroids & Meteors

• You will find these types of pages in the Space and Solar System pack:

• KWL Chart

• Fact Writing

• Graphic Organizers

• Passages

• Comprehension Pages

• Informational Writing Page

This activities pack is for on-the-go teachers. There are passages, comprehension activities, cut and paste pages, labeling pages, writing pages, vocabulary pages, and Fold and Go readers.