This PowerPoint builds background for a science unit on Living Things. It specifically pre-teaches, or re-teaches vocabulary from the Benchmark Advance reading curriculum for 3rd grade unit 1. It covers vocabulary like survive, adapt, adaptations, animal body coverings, predator, and prey. The PowerPoint activities include opportunities for listening, speaking, reading, writing, comparing/contrasting, sentence frames, and videos through gradual release. Though this was originally based off of a