Close Reading: Deserts by Gail Gibbons

                
                     

Teaching Environmental Science through Close Reading and Fine Arts using GLAD strategies. Great activities for Earth Day too. Prep free! Grade 1-5!


 


Materials include lesson plans, reading & writing activity pages, and posters with both student version and teacher’s version (with teaching scripts).
 




Major components of this close reading product:


- Student Package: 


- 1 Info Organizer


- 3 Reading Passages


- 3 Text Dependent Questions Sets ( each with 4 questions)


- 1 Vocabulary Sheet


- 1 Blank World Map Drawing in black and white


-Teacher Package: 


- 1 Info Organizer with answers


- 3 Reading Passages with Close Reading marks


- 3 Text Dependent Questions Sets with answers


- 1 Vocabulary Sheet with answers


- 1 Desert Distribution World Map Black Line Drawing Set


- 1 Desert Distribution World Map Color Drawing Set


- 1 Desert Landscape Drawing Black Line Drawing Set


- 1 Desert Landscape Color Drawing Set


- 1 Desert Succulent Black Line Drawing Set


- 1 Desert Succulent Color Drawing Set


- 1 Vocab Poster with Post-it notes


- 1 Desert Writing Information Poster


- 1 Teacher Sample Writing


- 2 Student Individual Sample Writings


- Lesson Plan embedded in 2 teaching scripts: 1 for Reading Passage and 1 for Text Dependent Questions.
 


This product is included in Close Reading Bundle: Science + Holidays.


 


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