Do you need lesson ideas and activities for your spring unit and lesson plans? Make learning about spring exciting with these engaging non-fiction ELA and science mini-lessons and activities about plants, ladybugs, birds and rainbows!
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 spring themes and concepts this spring 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 spring by reading captivating non-fiction text that is written in student language and completing partner projects and independent activities.
What you get in this HUGE Spring unit:
- Visual activity instructions for your lessons
- Non-fiction children’s book list about spring 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 bird, plant, and rainbow
- Printable booklets for kids to fill-in, read, and draw
- Life cycle of a ladybug with anchor chart headers, activities, and mini books
- Spring photo analysis
- Differentiated writing prompts
- Ladybug directed drawing
- Rainbow or nest with eggs writing and craft
- Research report booklet and writing paper
- Compare & contrast spring to winter on a Venn Diagram
- Spring observation journal
- 3 spring experiments
**Check out the PREVIEW for a thorough look into what this resource includes!**
Why You Need the Spring unit:
- This ONE science and non-fiction ELA unit has several activities making it easy to differentiate for all students.
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Real facts are used in an engaging, student-friendly way.
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Saves you time with simple print and go activities.
- Helps guide meaningful lessons that enhance understanding of spring vocabulary and facts.
- Build oral reading fluency and comprehension skills with the stories.
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Easily create and display anchor charts with the included pieces.
- Conduct engaging and meaningful research projects about the spring.
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 spring.
TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Brandee W. says,” Love all of your resources! They are very well planned and thought out with a variety of activities, supporting visuals and reading materials. I use it for a variety of grade levels from K-3.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jessica L. says, “I am so happy with this resource! It is exactly what I was looking for in bring non fiction into a class lesson at a age appropriate level!”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Deborah S. says, “What a wonderful resource! I will be using this with my 1st graders for the entire year. I love the cross curricular element. They will love the nonfiction reading. Thanks!”
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The activities align to the Common Core standards for Reading Informational Texts and Writing and the Next Generation Science Standards.
Supports Common Core Standards (CCSS):
First grade-W.1.2, W.1.7, RI.1.1, RI.1.2, RI1.3, RI.1.4, RI.1.5, RI.1.6, RI.1.7, RI.1.9, RI.1.10
Second grade-W.2.2, W.2.7, RI.2.1, RI.2.2, RI2.3, RI.2.4, RI.2.5, RI.2.6, RI.2.7, RI.2.9, RI.2.10
Third grade-W.3.2, W.3.7, W.3.8, W.3.10, RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.3, RI.3.4, RI.3.5, RI.3.6, RI.3.7, RI.3.9, RI.3.10
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