Butterfly Unit Bundle

Butterfly Unit Bundle

The Butterfly Unit Bundle is a meticulously curated teaching resource. It aims to enhance students' understanding of butterflies and their ecology, proving beneficial for educators in public schools and homeschools. Catering primarily to students in grades 2 to 4, it revolves around the subject of science with a particular focus on insects.

Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages about Butterflies

• Introduction to Butterflies
• The Butterfly Life Cycle
• Butterfly Migration
• Parts of a Butterfly.

This interactive resource includes vibrant illustrations fostering visual learning and promoting rigorous learning while ensuring easier comprehension among young learners.

CLOSE Reading Instructions & Anchor Charts

Bolster reading skills with CLOSE reading instructions and anchor charts that encourage interaction with the texts. A set of text-dependent questions align systematically with content promoting critical thinking amongst learners.

Vocabulary Tools: Cards & Cognitive Content Dictionary

• Sets of cards accompanying each nonfiction text.
• An enclosed Cognitive Content Dictionary allowing definition insertion along-side self-drawn images.

Addtional Resources: Performance Tasks & RAFT Ideas

1. KWL Charts for inquiry-based education technique encouraging active engagement between pre-existing understanding versus new knowledge during start-end evaluation throughout the unit.
2. A research report template about butterflies offering independent inquiry opportunities.
3. Different roles and perspectives in writing tasks using Role Audience Format Topic (RAFT) based themes.
4. A butterfly crossword puzzle to celebrate and reinforce learning in an interactive way.

This resource proves invaluable towards making science irresistible among young minds!

This unit contains the following elements:

• Four CLOSE reading nonfiction passages with illustrations:

1. Introduction to Butterflies

2. The Butterfly Life Cycle

3. Butterfly Migration

4. Parts of a Butterfly

• Four sets of vocabulary cards with definitions, one for each CLOSE reading

passage (Lexiles range from 500-850; we provide vocabulary support to scaffold

for students who need more support).

• CLOSE Reading Instructions PowerPoint ( or handout) explaining the steps of

CLOSE Reading.

• Anchor Charts for student annotation and Discussion Topics for CLOSE Reading.

• Four sets of “Text Dependent Questions”, on set for each CLOSE reading

passage.

• Common Core Essential questions (to be used after all four passages are read,

can be used as a summative assessment or a performance task.

• Butterfly Research Report (template to be used to write a complete report on

butterflies). This can also be used as a performance task.

• RAFT ideas (explanation included if you’re not familiar with RAFTS).

• Cognitive Content Dictionary (to be made into a “book” for student vocabulary

words, definitions, and pictures).

• KWL Chart (you can use this at the beginning of the unit to ascertain what they

may already know about butterflies).

• Venn Diagram to compare and contrast similarities and differences.

• A Tree Map Graphic Organizer ( a grammar component for students to analyze

the words in the passages and their parts of speech).

• A CLOZE worksheet (a fill-in the blank) worksheet and answer sheet to assess

vocabulary attainment and your students’ ability to utilize context clues.

• Butterfly Crossword Puzzle (an added extra, can be used for early finishers or

homework) with answer sheet and word bank.