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.

Concepts

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

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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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

Pros

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

Cons

• None

Common Core

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