Bugs - Reading, Writing, Tests, Art

If you are looking to build critical thinking skills, stronger reading comprehension, and experience your students begging to read and write about bugs, then this unit is for you! Passages and activities have been differentiated so that there are materials to meet the needs of first and second graders or the lows and highs in your classroom. Materials are interactive and engaging and SURE to get you results, as well as applause! This unit is perfect for open house, since you get 5 art projects and 2 complete paragraph writing units! And don't forget to fill your grade book with the 4 provided tests! Make your life easy and get everything you need to teach informational reading in one place!

Included:

-2-3 week lesson plan

-What is an Insect? Reading Comprehension

Bees

-Reading Comprehension

-Fluency Passage

-Writing Unit

-Fact and Opinion

-Art

-Test

-Links to video clips to help students build schema

-Bulletin Board Lettering and picture inspiration of my boards

Preying Mantis

-Preying Mantis Reading Comprehension

-Art

-Links to one video clip to help students build schema

-Bulletin Board Lettering and picture inspiration of my boards

Ladybugs

-Fluency

-Reading Comprehension

-Art

-Writing Unit

-Test

-Links to video clips to help students build schema

-Bulletin Board Lettering and picture inspiration of my boards

Ants

-Reading Comprehension

-Life in an Anthill Informational Text

-Art

-Test

-Links to video clips to help students build schema

-Bulletin Board Lettering and picture inspiration of my boards

Butterflies

-Butterfly Little Book "Look How Much I Have Changed"

-Writing activity in Butterfly book

-Fact and Opinion

-Test

-Art

-Links to video clips to help students build schema

-Bulletin Board Lettering and picture inspiration of my boards

Just For Fun

-Silly Syllables

-Buggy ABC Order

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