Living And Nonliving Things Reader

Living and non-living things are defined on facing booklet panels — living things need food, water, air and a place to live and can reproduce — with a classification prompt asking whether pictured items are living or nonliving.
Year levels
Pre-school (Early Years), Foundation–Year 2
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Updated Sep 27, 2026

Subject
Basic Science, Science
Topic
Living Things, Non-Living Things
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This Living and Non-living Things - Fold and Read Booklet resource is ready to print-and-go!

It is designed for students to classify and review the definitions of living and non-living things.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • State the four needs of living things — food, water, air, and a place to live — and that living things can reproduce

  • Contrast living and non-living things using the parallel wording of the two definitions

  • Classify things as living or nonliving in response to the booklet's question prompt

Teaching tips

  • Model the folding once for the whole class before handing out sheets, since the panels print in mixed orientations on the flat page

  • Choral-read the two definition panels together so students hear how the non-living definition mirrors the living one word for word

  • Extend the "Is it living or nonliving?" panel beyond the booklet: point at classroom objects, plants and pets and have students answer using the definitions they just read

Skills covered

  • Living vs. non-living classification — students answer "Is it living or nonliving?" using the booklet's paired definitions.

  • Science vocabulary — the definitions establish that living things need food, water, air and a place to live, and can reproduce.

  • Booklet folding — the single printed sheet is folded into a small reader before use.

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