Teach non-fiction, animal, and science topics ALL YEAR with this massive bundle of 17 Non-Fiction & Animal Science Units. Make learning about animals, seasons, and other non-fiction topics fun with these engaging non-fiction ELA and science mini-lessons and activities.
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 non-fiction themes and concepts all year long.
⭐ 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 learn about the four seasons, popular animals, earth day, and more by reading captivating non-fiction text written in student language and completing partner projects and independent activities.
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All 17 units in this HUGE bundle include:
- Visual activity instructions for your lessons
- Non-fiction children’s book list about each topic to use for your projects
- 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 with each unit
- Printable booklets for kids to fill-in, read, and draw
- Life cycle information with anchor chart headers, activities, and mini books
- Photo analysis
- Differentiated writing prompts
- 4 or 6 step directed drawing activities
- Themed writing and crafts
- Research report booklet and writing paper
- Compare & contrast on a Venn Diagram
- Observation journals in some of the units
- Science experiments in the season units
**Check out the PREVIEW for a thorough look into what this resource includes!**
Why You Need the Non-Fiction & Animal Science Bundle:
- This bundle provides several activity and template choices, making it easy to differentiate and meet the needs of your students.
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Real facts are presented to your students in fun, engaging ways with photographs to keep them focused and excited to learn more.
- This bundle helps you facilitate meaningful lessons and discussions about non-fiction themes to enhance understanding of related vocabulary and facts.
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Build oral reading fluency and comprehension skills with the included stories and ELA activities.
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Easily display, teach, and organize the facts and vocabulary for this unit with the easy-to-print anchor chart pieces.
- Use the included tools to facilitate a fun research project with every topic!
The best part? This resource saves you time as it comes with print-and-go activities and everything you’d need to teach your students about each topic.
Units Included:
Fall:
All About Fall (apples, pumpkins, leaves)
All About Spiders
All About Owls
All About Bats
Winter:
All About Winter (evergreen trees, snowflakes, snowmen)
All About Penguins
All About Polar Bears
Spring:
All About Spring (rainbows, ladybugs, birds, plants)
All About Butterflies
All About Frogs
All About Chickens
All About Flowers
All About Earth Day
Summer:
All About Summer
All About Whales
All About Sea Turtles
All About Salmon
Raving Customer Feedback:
“Love the graphic organizers, headers for charts, templates and how you provided differentiated activities for varying abilities. This is very thorough-definitely worth it!”
“Worth every penny. Great resource!”
"I LOVE your "All About..." units!! They are so comprehensive and work for so many levels of children!"
"This is such an awesome product. my students learned so much and i was able to have that cross-curricular approach that I love in the second grade classroom. so informative."
"I highly recommend this resource. It is literacy heavy and great for descriptive writing. It has great science experiments that get students observing and predicting what will happen next."
"Wow! There is so much here! I bought it to supplement my unit - instead, I am replacing!"
"LOVE the real pictures in here - has been great for our science unit as well as our writer's workshop working on informational text!"
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