Close Informational Reading - Alligators and Crocodiles with Activities

Kiddos Connect has created close reading and informational text passages that focus on:

*Alligators

*Crocodiles

We have included WOW! words and Questions (text dependent and BIG thinking).

Each close has a variety of writing formats:

*KWL

*Can, Have, Is

*A Picture and Two Facts

*Bubble Map

*Comparison Charts

*A factual take-home book for each animal

For extensions we have provided:

*Alligator Pie poem

-Take-home book

-Class book

*Never Smile At A Crocodile poem

-Take-home book

-Class book

*Literacy activities:

-Word families - printables

-Alligator Squeeze - printable (letter practice or letter/sound

practice

-Letter Fluency - printables (upper and lower case)

* Math activities

-Comparing numbers - printables (more than, less than)

-Comparing numbers - printables (greater than, less than, equal

to)

-Number fluency - printables

-Tens/Ones - printables

-Gator Group - printables (adding fluently to 5)

-Croc Club - printables (subtracting fluently from 5)