Question

coherent reading protocol
these prompts are designed to help you make sense of the main ideas from any reading. three chunks of text
have been identified. stop and summarize the main idea after each chunk using words or images.
box 1: navigate into the reading: what information do you want to figure out as you read?

you are already familiar with a force as a push or pull. in everyday life, many things move because you push or
pull on them directly. however, we have also seen objects get pushed or pulled at a distance. this happens
more often than you might think. when you drop a pencil, the gravitational force between it and the earth
causes the pencil to be pulled toward the ground even though nothing is touching it (except for air). magnetic
forces cause certain objects to snap back together when pulled apart. however, static electricity is due to a
third distance force: the electrostatic force.
box 2: do you think lightning would be caused by a contact or non - contact force?

the electrostatic force
what materials experience the electrostatic force? the electrostatic force
acts between any two objects or particles that have charge. any
material can become positively or negatively charged, but different
materials, like metals and non - metals, handle charges and therefore
interact with electric fields, very differently. charge is a property of
image: diagram with + and - charges, \opposite charges attract\, \like charges repel\

Explanation:

Box 1:

The reader wants to figure out about forces, especially those that act at a distance (like gravitational, magnetic, electrostatic forces) as they read, since the text starts by introducing familiar contact forces and then moves to distance forces.

Lightning is caused by electrostatic forces between charged clouds (or clouds and ground). Electrostatic force is a non - contact force (acts at a distance between charged objects). So lightning is caused by a non - contact force.

Answer:

Information about different types of forces, especially those acting at a distance (gravitational, magnetic, electrostatic)

Box 2: