Reading Comprehension Passage With Questions, Hot Topics: Marijuana

This informational text lesson on Marijuana and the dangers of adolescents using marijuana is the perfect ready-to-go lesson to practice critical reasoning, standards-based questioning, and writing while using textual evidence. Students will be engaged with the Hot Topic that is currently a major issue nationwide debate. 

Students will be presented with terminology to define and a detailed set of critical thinking questions to consider before reading. 

During reading, students will learn:

* What is marijuana and what are the compounds it contains?

* What does marijuana do to the brain?

* Why is marijuana use more risky in adolescents than adults?

* What does the data say about marijuana and its addictive nature?

* What are the health risks of consuming marijuana? 

After reading, students will answer a variety of multiple choice questions which cover:

- Tone

- Central Claim

- Text Structure

- Puns and Similes

- Counterpoints

- Textual evidence

- Rhetorical Questions 

Students are also presented with writing prompts which push them to use textual evidence as well as their own personal experiences and ideas. 

Full answer key for MC included!