Do you need lesson ideas and activities to teach your students about winter, polar bears, and penguins? Make learning about these 3 topics exciting this winter with these engaging non-fiction ELA and science mini-lessons and activities for the entire winter season!
This bundle of resources 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 winter, penguin, and polar bear themes and concepts.
⭐ Create anchor charts to lead your lessons with each unit and use the low-prep activities to teach a comprehensive unit that supports every student in your classroom.
⭐ Students will discover each of the 3 winter topics 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 3 Unit Winter Bundle:
- Visual activity instructions for your lessons
- Non-fiction children’s book list about each of the topics 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 & activities in each of the spring units
- Printable booklets for kids to fill-in, read, and draw
- Life cycle facts with anchor chart headers, activities, and mini books
- Photo analysis with real pictures for each season
- Differentiated writing prompts
- Directed drawing activities
- Themed writing and craft
- Research report booklet and writing paper
- Compare & contrast on a Venn Diagram
- Observation journals for each season
- Experiments
**Check out the PREVIEW for a thorough look into what this resource includes!**
Why You Need the Winter Bundle:
- This bundle provides several activity and template choices for EACH UNIT making it easy to differentiate and meet the needs of your students.
- Real facts are presented to your students in a fun, engaging way with photographs to keep them focused and excited to learn more.
- This bundle helps you facilitate meaningful lessons and discussions about winter themes to enhance understanding of related vocabulary and facts.
- Build oral reading fluency and comprehension skills with the included stories and ELA activities.
- Easily display, teach, and organize the facts and vocabulary for each unit with the easy to print anchor chart pieces.
- Use the included tools to facilitate a fun research project during the winter!
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 winter, penguins, and polar bears!
TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Shilo B. says, ”This was so much fun to teach with my First Graders. They really loved it and learned so much. Thank you for a great resource!"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kathie G. says, “Very thorough unit. I used different parts of it with different grades. Loved the organizers and labeling parts of snowflakes, pinecones and more. Thank you."
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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):
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
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
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
You might also be interested in these Non-Fiction ELA & Science units:
All About Winter
All About Owls
All About Penguins
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