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“Winter Survival” Informational Life Science: Key Details, Vocabulary, & Classifying

3rd Grade • 1 Lesson Plan
$2.00
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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Informational

Type: 1 Lesson Plan

Skills:

  • Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
  • Practice identifying key details, determining the meaning of unknown vocabulary, and classifying information
  • Classify three animal species and how they survive winter using a graphic organizer

Materials Needed:

  • Pencils and crayons or colored pencils
  • blank white paper
  • Document camera or whiteboard

Printable Resources: Required:

  • copies of Informational Text: “Winter Survival” by Jennifer Kaul (1 copy per student)
Optional:
  • “Classifying Design” graphic organizer (1 copy per student -or-project using document camera for students to copy)

CCSS: RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.3, RI.3.4

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

Engaging students in reading and developing reading for meaning skills is a foundational goal for 3rd graders. Perfect for multilingual learners, this 1 hour lesson includes using  a printable Informational Life Science text, “Winter Survival,” written by Jennifer Kaul.  Your students will:

  • Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
  • Practice identifying key details, determining the meaning of unknown vocabulary, and classifying information
  • Classify three animal species and how they survive winter using a graphic organizer

This lesson addresses Third Grade Life Science NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards):

  • LS2.C: Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience When the environment changes in ways that affect a place’s physical characteristics, temperature, or availability of resources, some organisms survive and reproduce, others move to new locations, yet others move into the transformed environment, and some die. (secondary to 3-LS4-4)

**Purchasing both this 1 hour and the ELA Bundle: “Winter Survival” Informational Life Science Bundle, will result in duplicated content.