1st Grade Informational Text Google Apps

What is Pollination? has now been made for use in the Google Classroom™. You can share this resource with your students through Google Classroom™ or Google Drive™. Students can then type directly on this document and share it back with you.

This science lesson plan is an introduction to pollination for kids. Students will read about pollination and different pollinators. There are video links as well as a suggested pollination activity.

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Help your students master the difference between facts and opinions with this engaging Informational Writing Lesson. This comprehensive resource is perfect for elementary students including 1st - 3rd Grade, and covers everything you need to teach fact-based writing with clarity. The lesson comes with interactive digital activities, printable versions, and more, making it versatile for in-class, hybrid, or remote learning environments.

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✨ What's Included:

✏️ Editable PowerPoint for easy lesson customization

✏️ Interactive Digital Activities and PDF Versions

✏️ Mentor text for students to see a real-life example of facts

✏️ Anchor Chart for visual reinforcement

✏️ Engaging Quiz to assess student understanding

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Key Features:

• Suitable for 1st to 3rd grade
• Editable to fit your specific class needs
• Ideal for literacy centers, homework, remote learning or whole-class instruction

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Why You'll Love It:

• No prep required! Just print or assign digitally.
• Customizable PowerPoint for your teaching style.
• Boosts students' confidence in identifying factual information and developing informational writing skills.

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"Spiders" by Nic Bishop:This introductory Google Slide lesson provides digital pre-reading information for the story’s author and genre. Bold photo visuals and engaging video clips support the story details. The lesson includes an in-depth vocabulary study, practice, assessment, and printable organizers.

This standard-aligned material is for use with whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual/homeschool classrooms

Google Slides:

1. **Author Biography** We provide author biographies for each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the story in the context of the author's life experience.

2. **Setting**Highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links allowing students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time-period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.

3.**Bold Photos: ** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.

4. **Vocab with Concise Definitions and Part of Speech: ** Our lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context. Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.

Vibrant Vocab slides (dribbles, prey, camouflaged, pounce, poisonous, extraordinary, vibrations, predator)

5.**Quizlet Practice Link ** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.

6. **Fun Fact Images and Videos** These features highlight unique elements of the text to aid comprehension

PDF FILE.

Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing printable worksheets to be used with the lesson!

**Grammar Sort**

Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.

**Connotation Sort**

Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.

**Context Clues Sentences, Word Bank and Key: **

Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.

**Vocabulary Organizer**

This worksheet allows the students to infer the meaning from the animated vocabulary slide. After students complete the organizer, it is a great reference sheet.

**Synonym and Antonym Word Study**

The graphic organizer allows the students to explore the variations in meaning of the new vocabulary word.

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:

· Introduce new story

· Provide backstory to text

· Stimulate group discussion

· Create predictions about text

· Use as distance learning resource

· Post on webpage for review

· Add to electronic notebooks

· Provide test review

· Prompt Writing or Research assignments

· Grammar study / parts of speech

· Discuss Word Connotation

Please be sure to view the preview and watch the video for detailed images and descriptions of the lesson.

This lesson is also available in PowerPoint.

Enjoy!

-From Kiwious About Vocab!

2017 edition

Tarra and Bella: The Elephant and Dog Who Became Best Friends, by Carol Buckley is a narrative non-fiction picture book. This literature unit is common core aligned for 1st-3rd grade.

This is a true story about an elephant held in captivity for human entertainment. She winds up being transferred to an Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee to live out the rest of her days. An unlikely companion on the sanctuary grounds shows Tarra what true friendship is all about. What a sweet, sweet story!

This packet includes activities in the following areas:

• genre
• character, setting, plot
• sequencing
• opinion writing
• vocabulary
• compare/contrast
• parts of speech
• research
• fact/opinion
• comprehension
• summarizing
• making inferences
• writing a newspaper article about anunlikely friendship
• friendship

Answer Keys are included where deemed necessary. 

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NARRATIVE NONFICTION BUNDLE LITERATURE UNITS

Or individually here:

IVAN: THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF THE SHOPPING MALL GORILLA LITERATURE UNIT

TUESDAY TUCKS ME IN: THE LOYAL BOND BETWEEN A SOLDIER AND HIS SERVICE DOG

NOTE: THIS FILE NOW INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

As of 5/17/21, this product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The digital portion instructions appear at the end of the packet.

Technology Requirements:

• A Google Drive account
• If sharing with students, a Drive account that is linked to student Google accounts
• Can be shared/delivered on Google Classroom
• Only need access to Google Drive--no outside links to worry about!

This file can be used with iPads, chrome books, laptops, and desktops as long as your students have access to Google Drive or Classroom on a device. The digital portion of this product is on Google Slides™.

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Kirsten Tulsian has 18 years of experience in elementary education. She has been a homeroom teacher for first grade, third grade, and fourth grade, as well as ESL. She has also been a school counselor for grades PK-6, an ESL pullout teacher for K-6, and a Reading Recovery Teacher. She received her Bachelor’s degree in elementary education and psychology from The University of Iowa and a Master’s of Education in school counseling from Sam Houston State University. She believes that students make the most progress when they are engaged in their hearts as well as their minds. Her resources offer relevant, rigorous, engaging content that nurtures the whole child.

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Tuesday Tucks Me In Book for Veterans Day and Memorial Day Writing: Veteran's Day Activities

Veteran's Day Literature Unit: Tuesday Tucks Me In: The Loyal Bond Between a Soldier and His Service Dog, by Luis Carlos Montalvan is a narrative non-fiction picture book that is perfect for Veteran's Day.

This literature unit is common core aligned for 1st-3rd grade. It was born from the book Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him by Luis Carlos Montalvan.

This Veteran's Day packet includes activities in the following areas:

• genre
• character, setting, plot
• sequencing
• opinion writing
• vocabulary
• compare/contrast
• letter writing
• research
• fact/opinion
• comprehension
• summarizing
• loyalty

NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The digital portion instructions appear at the end of the packet.

Need more narrative nonfiction? Buy the BUNDLE!

• NARRATIVE NONFICTION BUNDLE LITERATURE UNITS

Or in singles here:

• IVAN: THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF THE SHOPPING MALL GORILLA LITERATURE UNIT
• TARRA AND BELLA: THE ELEPHANT AND DOG WHO BECAME BEST FRIENDS LITERATURE UNIT

Finding Winnie Activities and Worksheets: Read Aloud Literature Unit Book Study

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick is a perfect picture book for Veteran's Day or any other time of year.

This is a narrative non-fiction picture book about how Winnie became a world-famous bear. This literature unit is common core aligned for 1st-4th grade and is perfect for Veteran's Day.

PLEASE NOTE: Some activities may be more appropriate for 1st graders during the second half of the school year.

This packet includes activities in the following areas:

• genre
• characters
• setting
• summary
• sequencing
• character traits
• alphabetical order
• vocabulary
• compare/contrast
• letter writing
• research
• comprehension
• summarizing
• bear craftivity
• fiction writing

Answer keys are also included where necessary.

NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The digital portion instructions appear at the end of the packet.

You may also be interested in these literature units:

• LITERATURE UNITS