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Rainforest Layers Animals in the Amazon Nonfiction Close Reading Passages

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Think Grow Giggle
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Grade Levels
3rd - 5th, Homeschool
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23 + Google Slides™
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This is a great resource for reading intervention. I am using it with low 5th grade students and high 3rd grade students. Works great for intervention and excelleration.
Great resource for independent practice of reading comprehension strategies to use as students read! Thank you!
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Description

Save the rainforests! Looking for reading activities about the rainforests like the Amazon? These nonfiction passages are perfect to welcome spring or anytime you are learning and researching about the rainforests' habitats, animals, and layers.

Students will learn and think critically about the different types of rainforests, the animals that live there, deforestation destroying the rainforests, and how they can protect our rainforests.

Your students will practice gathering important information as they read nonfiction content within informational texts.

Close reading anchor charts are also included to help your students understand the text more deeply. Perfect for the whole group, small group, and literacy or science centers or stations.

Looking for more science passages? Grab this BUNDLE!

This set includes BOTH a printable and a digital Google Slides™ version.

CONTENTS:

Link and directions to use the digital version in Google Classroom™

✓Close Reading Anchor Charts in two sizes

✓Close Reading Graphic Organizer

✓3 articles with reader-response text-dependent questions:

  • What are Rainforests?
  • Life in the Rainforests
  • How to Save the Rainforests

✓Compare and Contrast Tropical and Temperate Rainforests

✓Visualizing the Layers of the Rainforests

✓Answer Keys

Bonus Activities Include:

-Visiting The Rainforest

-Main Idea Activity

-Snapshots to Save the Rainforest

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Standards

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Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).

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