Light and Shadows Cloze

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About this worksheet

A Year 3 science cloze on light and shadows for the England National Curriculum. Pupils complete three short paragraphs using a bank of twelve words, each used once, such as opaque, source, straight and blocked. The text moves from needing light to see, to light sources like the Sun and a torch, to how a shadow forms and changes size. Two questions follow. One asks for a sentence using opaque, and the other asks what happens to a puppet's shadow near a torch. The key lists the twelve words in order.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Light

“Recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light”

The first two gaps (eyes and dark) cover this.

Light

“Recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object”

The middle paragraph, with blocked, opaque and shadow, and question 1.

Light

“Find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change.”

The last paragraph and question 2 give the pattern. Pupils fill it in rather than finding it by experiment.

What's inside this worksheet

Exploring Light and Shadows

The word bank: opaque, Sun, closer, dark, smaller, torch, eyes, blocked, bigger, source, shadow and straight.

How Light and Shadows Work

Three paragraphs with twelve gaps, and a picture of a torch beam. The last paragraph asks what happens to a shadow as the object moves closer or further away.

Check Your Understanding

Pupils write a sentence about a classroom object using opaque, then say what happens to a toy puppet's shadow as it moves closer to a torch.

How teachers use it

After the torch lesson

Use it the day after pupils have made shadows with torches, so the last paragraph matches what they saw.

Puppet test

Let pupils check their answer to question 2 with a real puppet and torch.

Cover the bank

For a harder version, fold the word bank under and see how many gaps pupils can fill without it.

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