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Reading Adventure Pack: Bees ActivityReading Adventure Pack: Bees Activity
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PBS
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3rd
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Reading Adventure Pack: Bees

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A Reading Adventure pack explores the busy life of bees. After reading a fiction and nonfiction text, scholars complete three hands-on activities. Participants invent a robot that can do the work of bees, cheers to hardworking bees with a homemade smoothie, and compose a piece of a newspaper designed for bees such as a comic, advertisement, or article.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

bees, honey bees, pollen, flowers, plants, flowering plants, reading, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, responding to reading, responding to literature, fiction, nonfiction, nonfiction texts

Instructional Ideas

  • Invite parents and guardians to request reading packs when they plan to add learning opportunities to the home routine
  • Combine newspaper segments to create an entire newspaper written by the class
  • Display robot design on or next to a bee-themed focus wall

Classroom Considerations

  • The two featured stories are The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco and The Life and Times of the Honeybee by Charles Micucci
  • The pack is designed for use at home with parents or guardians

Pros

  • The resource intends to ease any worries about getting stung by a bee
  • Activities meet a variety of learning styles

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.3.1 RL.3.10 RI.3.1 RI.3.10

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