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“Winter Survival” Informational Life Science: Writing Summary & Narrative

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
  • Create headings for the text in order to infer the main ideas
  • Write a summary  and produce a creative writing assignment based on text

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:
  • “Brainstorming 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, & RI.3.8

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

Perfect for multilingual students learning English, this is a 1 hour fully scripted Life Science based informational text lesson incorporates scaffolds and supports for student in oral language production and collaborative partner work.  Your students will:

  • Work in partners with strategic sentence frames to take a literal interpretation of informational text to evaluation and synthesizing.
  • Create and use three headings to write a summary of the informational text
  • Plan and write a short narrative using a graphic organizer about their own winter survival.

 

 

 

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.