Pine Trees: Evergreens: Mini Thematic Unit Plan

This is a wonderful resource to help children learn about Pine Trees: Evergreens while developing their ability to comprehend what they are reading.

This pack contains so many resources to help you plan and deliver a fantastic lesson that will captivate your pupils!

The Pine Trees: evergreens Minin Thematic Unit Plan

1. Full lesson notes to help you plan a child-centred lesson about Pine Trees and creatures that eat the seeds - which will help you teach the 'plants' element of most Science curricula including touching on food chains and how animals obtain their food from plants.

2. Information you need in an easy-to-read format that you can also use with able pupils

3. 3 differentiated decodable reading passages in both colour and black and white formats and on a PowerPoint

4. 3 differentiated reading comprehension activities

5. 3 differentiated pages to allow pupils to use given vocabulary to write about pine trees.

6. 1 page to draw a cone and describe it

7. 1 page to colour a Crossbill - identified as a bird that relies on pine seeds for its food.

8. Photos/pictures to use during the lesson and/or for display afterwards

9. 1 twenty-slide PowerPoint

10. Flashcards

11. 1 fun art activity

The lesson plan includes:

1. Aims and objectives for the lesson

2. Key vocabulary to be learned

3. A list of resources required to teach the lesson to make your preparation easy!

4. Pointers to assess children's understanding of the subject

5. Step-by-step outline of the lesson

The decodable passages come in three levels:

The first level is for children who have a very basic grasp of phonics. This sheet requires knowledge of the sounds: o-e, i-e, ow, ee- ea and the sight words: have, are, do and the. It uses mostly one-syllable words.

The second sheet requires knowledge of the sound ay and ur as well as of sight words: because, know and come. It still uses mainly one-syllable words.

The third sheet contains yet more text with more words of two-syllables requiring knowledge of alternative spelling patterns for basic sounds, e.g. ea - weather.

Who is the Decodable Reading Comprehension Passages + Lesson Plan: Pine Trees for?

Teachers

Home educators

But not exclusively!!

Format:

1 PDF 30 pages

1 MS PowerPoint 19 slides