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Adapting to Survive

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Life science and language arts come together in a passage about animal adaptation. After kids learn about how organisms adapt to conditions in their environments, they complete five reading comprehension questions based on context clues in the passage.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

animal adaptations, biomes, habitats, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, reading paragraphs, context clues

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Have kids research an animal that has adapted to its environment, using the animals in the passage as examples
  • Assess reading levels of incoming learners with comprehension questions
  • Include in a homework packet during a unit about biomes and habitats

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  • Includes an answer key for easy assessment
  • Encourages kids to use critical thinking across two subjects

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  • None

Common Core

RI.3.1 RI.3.2 RI.3.3 RI.3.4

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