Do you need lesson ideas and activities for your winter unit? Make learning about winter fun with these engaging non-fiction ELA and science mini-lessons and activities about snowmen, snowflakes, and evergreen trees!
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 winter themes and concepts this winter 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.
What you get in this HUGE Winter unit:
- Visual activity instructions for your lessons
- Non-fiction children’s book list about winter 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 snowman, snowflake, and evergreen tree
- Printable booklets for kids to fill-in, read, and draw
- Life cycle of a snowflake with anchor chart headers, activities, and mini books
- Fall photo analysis
- Differentiated writing prompts
- Snowflake directed drawing
- Winter writing and craft
- Research report booklet and writing paper
- Compare & contrast winter to summer on a Venn Diagram
- Winter observation journal
- 3 winter experiments
**Check out the PREVIEW for a thorough look into what this resource includes!**
Why You Need the Winter unit:
- This unit provides several activities 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 a fun, engaging way with photographs to keep them focused and excited to learn more.
- This resource helps you facilitate meaningful lessons and discussions about winter 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 winter research project!
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 fall.
TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jennifer M. says,” This is a beautiful resource. My students love doing the activities and investigating. We spread the resource over a few weeks. They also love the little experiments. It is definitely a cross-curricular resource. Thank you.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Hannah V. says, “LOVED this resource. It was a fun way to look at winter other than through the lens of holidays. My students enjoyed this and it worked well on distance learning too.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Holly H. says, “This product is AMAZING! So many activities and resources for my students. The quality of work is spectacular. This is definitely something I will use year after year! Thanks for this amazing product!”
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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
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