Nutrition Bundle: Cause & Effect Reading Comprehension (Great Test Prep)

Do your students know the difference in protein and carbohydrates? Are you teaching a unit on Food Science or Nutrition? Your students will love learning new and interesting scientific information about the basics of nutrition in this bundle of reading and writing activities. For example, did you know there are two categories of nutrients: macronutrients and micronutrients? This product has at least 2 hours worth of work for your students to enhance their reading information skills, informative essay writing skills, comprehension skills, understanding of new vocabulary, and general scientific literacy. This is a great resource for emergency no prep substitute teacher plans, or for use as an assessment.

PRODUCT DETAILS:

• FILE TYPE: Download this printable 60 page PDF digital file to use with your students.
• VOCAB CARDS: There are 3 sets of vocabulary cards with colorful pictures and comprehensive definitions.
• LEVELED PASSAGES: There are 3 leveled non-fiction expository passages for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade lexiles: 600 level lexile passage, 800 level lexile passage, and 1000 level lexile passage. Each passage has colorful pictures. The passages structures' focus on the cause and effect of different nutrients in the body, including protein, carbohydrates, fats, fiber, vitamins, and minerals including zinc and iron.
• VOCAB WORKSHEET: Each leveled passage comes with a vocabulary worksheet and an answer key.
• COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS: Each leveled passage comes with multiple choice comprehension questions and an open ended writing question that incorporate higher order thinking skills, and it comes with answer keys. The 600 lexile passage questions address Common Core Standards 3.RI.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. These questions address referring to text, identifying the main idea, sequence, vocabulary meaning, text features, author's point of view, referring to photos for understanding, cause and effect, and compare and contrast. The 800 lexile passage questions address Common Core Standards 4.RI.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 19. These questions address referring to the text, identifying the main idea, explaining concepts, vocabulary, text structure, utilizing photos for understanding, and text evidence. The 1000 lexile passage questions address Common Core Standards 5.RI.1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10. These questions address quoting accurately, summarizing two or more main ideas, relationships between scientific concepts, and text evidence.
• INFORMATIVE ESSAY: There is an informational essay prompt that comes with a planning page, an essay template, standards based writing conventions students checklist, standards based informative writing checklist, peer feedback forms, and grading rubrics. Each of these rubrics and checklists is based on Common Core writing standards for third grade, fourth grade and fifth grade. The rubrics and checklists cover informational writing standards for each grade and writing conventions standards for each grade.
• VOCABULARY WORDS: nutrition, nutrient, waste, function, illness, healthy, clot, milligrams, grams, macronutrients, micronutrients, protein, carbohydrates, fats, fiber, vitamins, minerals, multi-vitamin, iron, zinc, injury, scale, remove, red blood cells, virus, malnutrition, chemical compound, proper, properly, nutritionist, satisfy, strengthen, increase, improve, immune system, adequate
• TEST PREP: This is an excellent standardized test prep resource as you prepare for end of grade testing. The multiple choice questions explicitly state the skill the students are using to answer the question and emphasizes the verbs in the question with the effect of helping students explicitly understand what they are being asked to do. This would be a great resource to display on a SmartBoard, projector, or TV after students have answered questions so that you can explicitly teach the skills needed to answer different types of questions. You could use this resource to demonstrate how to look for particular key wording in questions to know what type of question it is and what it's really asking. I also worded the answer choices in such a way to lend itself to whole-class review, for both the correct answers and incorrect answers which I carefully crafted to assist in correcting misconceptions.

EASY TO IMPLEMENT:

• This assignment is a low prep option that you can literally print and go straight back to your classroom to implement IMMEDIATELY.
• It would also be great for emergency sub plans.
• You could display this passage on your projector, SmartBoard, or TV to utilize as a whole class, or you could print individual pages for easy differentiation.

SCAFFOLD & DIFFERENTIATE: This digital download PDF printable can easily be scaffolded to differentiate learning for 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade. Depending on which ages and levels you teach, this activity can easily be scaffolded to accommodate all learners.

TEST PREP: This is a great resource for preparing for standardized testing.

HOMESCHOOL: As a note, this writing activity also works well for homeschool students.