These PowerPoints build background for a science unit on Living Things. It specifically pre-teaches, or re-teaches vocabulary from the Benchmark Advance reading curriculum for 1st-3rd grade unit 1. It covers vocabulary like living vs. non-living, life cycles, habitats, survival, adaptations, predator/prey, and more! The PowerPoint activities include opportunities for listening, speaking, reading, writing, sequencing, compare/contrast, physical TPR actions, and sentence frames through gradual rel