Protecting Our Blue Planet: Water Pollution – Reading Comprehension for Class 6 

This Grade 6 reading comprehension worksheet focuses on Water Pollution, one of the most urgent environmental issues facing our planet today. Students will learn how harmful substances like plastics, chemicals, and sewage pollute rivers, lakes, and oceans, affecting both humans and animals. 

Through this engaging passage and structured exercises, learners build reading comprehension, inference, and vocabulary skills while also developing environmental awareness. The worksheet encourages responsible thinking, sentence formation, and factual understanding aligned with Grade 6 learning goals. 

Why Reading Comprehension Matters in Grammar? 

Comprehension allows learners to connect language with knowledge and meaning. For Grade 6 students, this topic is important because: 
1. It strengthens grammar through real-world reading practice. 
2. It helps students form complete and meaningful responses. 
3. It builds awareness about environmental responsibility. 
4. It develops analytical and reflective writing skills. 

What’s Inside This Worksheet? 

🧠 Exercise 1 – Multiple Choice Questions
Students answer factual questions about causes, effects, and prevention of water pollution. 

✏️ Exercise 2 – Short Answer Questions
Learners write short responses defining pollution, naming pollutants, and suggesting solutions. 

📚 Exercise 3 – Higher-Order Thinking & Vocabulary 
Students reflect on the importance of clean water, the impact of human actions, and find a synonym for valuable → precious.
 

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

 Exercise 1 – Choose the Correct Option
1. a) Throwing harmful substances into water bodies 
2. c) They may fall sick 
3. c) Using eco-friendly soaps 

Exercise 2 – Short Answer Questions
1. It happens when harmful waste goes into water. 
2. People can keep water clean by not dumping waste and cleaning lakes. 
3. Plastic and factory chemicals. 

Exercise 3 – Critical Thinking & Vocabulary
1. Clean water helps all living things survive. 
2. Schools can organize clean-water drives and awareness programs. 
3. Human waste and chemicals harm rivers and animals. 
4. Synonym for “valuable” – Precious.
 

Help your child learn to protect the planet while improving reading and grammar skills through this eco-friendly comprehension worksheet! 
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