“Parts of a Plant” Informational Life Science Bundle

1st Grade • Lesson Plan Bundle

$6.00

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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Informational

Type: Lesson Plan Bundle

Skills:

Practice close reading comprehension techniques
Participate in collaborative conversations around details of photographs
Identify the topic of a text, retell key details and create diagrams of a plant.

Materials Needed:

Teacher copy of the text
Pencils, chart paper or whiteboard
Document camera or interactive whiteboard for displaying text

Printable Resources: Required:

copies of informational text, “The Parts of a Plant,” by Jennifer Kaul (1 copy per student)

Optional:

printable “Exit Slip” as an optional assessment component (1 copy per student)

CCSS: RI.1.1, RI.1.2, RI.1.4, RI.1.5

Lesson Plan Description

Engaging for all readers, especially multilingual students learning English, this bundle of lessons is based on Life Science standards and a text, “The Parts of a Plant,” by Jennifer Kaul. Your students will:

Segment 1: Use images and details in a text to describe its key ideas, ask and answer questions with sentence frames to determine word meaning
Segment 2: Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text and ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Segment 3: students will create and label a diagram that supports an informational text.

First Grade Life Science NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards) include: LS1.A: Structure and Function All organisms have external parts. Different animals use their body parts in different ways to see, hear, grasp objects, protect themselves, move from place to place, and seek, find, and take in food, water and air. Plants also have different parts (roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits) that help them survive and grow. (1-LS1-1)

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