Energy Sources Cloze Passage

This worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen science literacy by completing a cloze passage focused on energy resources and sustainability. Learners apply key vocabulary, reading comprehension, context clues, and environmental reasoning as they fill in missing words related to renewable and nonrenewable energy sources and their impacts.

Academic Focus

• Energy Vocabulary (Grades 4-6) – Students use terms such as solar, wind, renewable, nonrenewable, hydropower, geothermal, and pollution correctly within context.
• Reading Comprehension Skills – Learners analyze sentence meaning and apply context clues to complete a scientific passage.
• Energy Science Concepts – The passage explains how energy sources are formed, how long they last, and how they affect the environment.
• Environmental Reasoning – A reflection question encourages students to think critically about why countries should adopt more renewable energy.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to align with upper-elementary science standards.
• Supports Science & Literacy Integration – Combines reading, vocabulary, and environmental science concepts.
• Flexible Use – Ideal for independent work, homework, review lessons, science notebooks, or assessment.
• Structured Support – A word bank helps students focus on meaning while building confidence with science terms.

This energy sources cloze passage worksheet helps students build strong foundations in science vocabulary, reading comprehension, and sustainability concepts. By applying key terms in context and reflecting on renewable energy adoption, students deepen their understanding of how energy choices affect the environment. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this printable resource offers meaningful, low-prep practice that supports both literacy and environmental science learning.

This worksheet is part of our Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Sources Worksheets collection.