Summer Season Science & Non-Fiction ELA Unit

Do you need lesson ideas and activities for your summer unit and lesson plans? Make learning about summer exciting with these engaging non-fiction ELA and science mini-lessons and activities about honeybees, starfish, and sunflowers!

This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension, and learn interesting facts about important summer themes and concepts this summer season.

⭐ Create anchor charts to lead your lessons and use the low-prep activities to teach a comprehensive unit that supports every student in your classroom. 

⭐ Students will discover about autumn by reading captivating non-fiction text that is written in student language and completing partner projects and independent activities.

You can get this unit in the Non-Fiction & Science for the Whole Year Bundle. This bundle has many units covering themes for the whole year.

What you get in this HUGE Summer unit:  

• Visual activity instructions for your lessons
• Non-fiction children’s book list about summer to use for your project
• Know, Wonder, Learn (KWL) & Schema activities with anchor chart headers
• Vocabulary and fact posters with real photographs
• Vocabulary activities – matching & cards
• Fact sorting and recording pages
• Labeled diagrams of a sunflower, honeybee, and starfish
• Printable booklets for kids to fill-in, read, and draw
• Life cycle of a honeybee with anchor chart headers, activities, and mini books
• Summer photo analysis
• Differentiated writing prompts
• Bee directed drawing
• Starfish writing and craft
• Research report booklet and writing paper
• Compare & contrast summer to fall on a Venn Diagram
• Summer observation journal
• 2 summer experiments

**Check out the PREVIEW for a thorough look into what this resource includes!**

Why You Need the Summer unit:

• This ONE science and non-fiction ELA unit has several activities making it easy to differentiate for all students.
• Real facts are used in an engaging, student-friendly way.
• Saves you time with simple print and go activities.
• Helps guide meaningful lessons that enhance understanding of summer vocabulary and facts.
• Build oral reading fluency and comprehension skills with the stories.
• Easily create and display anchor charts with the included pieces.
• Conduct engaging and meaningful research projects about the summer.

The best part? This resource saves you time as it is comes with print-and-go activities and everything you’d need to teach your students about summer, starfish, sunflowers, and honeybees.

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lanier’s Lions says,” This pack was a great addition to my summer unit! Thank you!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jessica M. says, “This resource is amazing, partly because of the content, but also because of how much is included. Amazing!!!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Adria K. says, “I used this with my summer school kids. and they really liked it. It was small groups of 3-4 and we had great discussions based on what they learned. Thank you so much for making a great product.”
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You might also be interested in these Non-Fiction ELA & Science units:

All About Polar Bears
All About Penguins
All About Spiders
All About Butterflies
All About Chickens.
All About Frogs
All About Whales

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