Clear the Air: Understanding Air Pollution – Reading Comprehension for Class 6 

This Grade 6 reading comprehension worksheet helps students understand one of today’s most pressing environmental challenges — Air Pollution. Through a clear and engaging passage, learners explore the causes, effects, and solutions to polluted air caused by vehicles, factories, and waste burning. 

The worksheet builds reading comprehension, grammar awareness, and critical thinking. Students learn how air pollution harms humans, plants, and animals, and what individuals and communities can do to keep the air clean. 

Why Reading Comprehension Matters in Grammar? 

Comprehension bridges knowledge and language use. For Grade 6 learners, this topic is important because: 
1. It strengthens sentence understanding and factual expression. 
2. It encourages logical thinking and solution-based reasoning. 
3. It connects environmental awareness with grammar practice. 
4. It promotes descriptive writing and informed vocabulary use. 

What’s Inside This Worksheet? 

🧠 Exercise 1 – Multiple Choice Questions
Students answer factual questions about causes, effects, and preventive steps for air pollution. 

✏️ Exercise 2 – Short Answer Questions 
Learners define air pollution, identify its sources, and explain how to reduce it. 

📚 Exercise 3 – Higher-Order Thinking & Vocabulary 
Students think critically about solutions, awareness campaigns, and find a synonym for reduce → lessen.

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

Exercise 1 – Choose the Correct Option
1. b) Dust from construction and vehicle smoke 
2. b) It causes health problems like coughing and asthma 
3. b) Using bicycles and planting trees 

Exercise 2 – Short Answer Questions
1. Air pollution is when harmful gases or particles make the air dirty. 
2. People can help by using bicycles, planting trees, and not burning waste. 
3. Smoke from vehicles and factories. 

Exercise 3 – Critical Thinking & Vocabulary
1. It makes it hard to breathe and harms plants and animals. 
2. Schools can organize “Clean Air” campaigns and tree-planting drives. 
3. Governments can set rules to control smoke and vehicle emissions. 
4. Synonym for “reduce” – Lessen. 

Help your child build awareness, comprehension, and responsibility through this impactful environmental worksheet. 
Let learning inspire change — one breath at a time!
 
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