March 2021

Too Dry for a Toad?

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Pond Search and Find

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Skill-Building Sheets

Academic Standards

 

Reading Objective:

Children will explain why spadefoot toads must go through their life cycle quickly.

 

Science Focus:

animal life cycles, habitats, and adaptations

 

ELA Skills:

key details, writing, vocabulary, text evidence

 

Page 4 Skill:

read a chart

 

Vocabulary:

habitat, tadpoles, metamorphosis, evaporate, life cycle

 

CCSS:

RI.2.1, RI.2.4, RI.2.8, RI.2.10, L.2.1, SL.2.3

 

Guided Reading Level: 

n

 

Lexile Level:

540L