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“Abracadabra! Changes in Matter” Informational Physical Science Bundle

5th Grade • Lesson Plan Bundle
$6.00
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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Informational

Type: Lesson Plan Bundle

Skills:

  • Participate in a collaborative and active close reading lesson by asking and answering questions text dependent questions with the support of sentence frames
  • Use context clues to determine meaning of unknown words
  • Classify information and create a new layout for an informational text with a focus on text features

Materials Needed:

  • Blank & lined pieces of paper
  • Pencil & crayons/colored pencils
  • Document camera or whiteboard.

Printable Resources: Required: copies of Informational Text: “Abracadabra! Changes in Matter” by Jennifer Kaul found in the appendix of this document (1 per student) Optional:

  •  “Exit Slip” assessment component
  • "Classifying Design" graphic organizer
  • "Brainstorming Design" graphic organizer
Optional Teacher Resources: “Protocols” (used throughout lesson - be familiar with each protocol)

CCSS: RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.6, RI.5.7, RI.5.8

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

Perfect for multilingual students learning English, this bundle of lessons includes 3 separate segments (30-60 minutes each) based around an Informational Physical Science text, “Space Junk: Earth’s Unofficial Ring,” by Jennifer Kaul.  Your students will:

  • Segment 1: work in partners with strategic sentence frames to take a literal interpretation of informational text to evaluation and synthesizing.
  • Segment 2: complete a graphic organizer to classify three animal species and how they survive winter
  • Segment 3: create a new layout for the informational text that incorporates purposeful text features

This lesson text addresses NGSS: PS1.B:

  • Chemical Reactions When two or more different substances are mixed, a new substance with different properties may be formed. (5-PS1-4)

These lessons can be taught over the span of a half day or you can use the lessons independently, broken up over several days.