Studying plant, animal, or insect life cycles? Pair a science unit with a reading comprehension worksheet on life cycles. The passage touches briefly on butterfly, plant, frog, and dog life cycles before prompting readers to answer six open-ended questions.

Concepts

butterfly life cycle, animal life cycles, life cycles, insect life cycles, reading comprehension, plant life cycles

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Give as homework or classwork after studying the process of a living thing's life cycle
• Compare and contrast several life cycles of different animals or insects in a Venn diagram
• Have readers underline their answers within the text to support the answers they wrote

Classroom Considerations

• Provide notebook paper for pupils that need a more structured space to write their answers to the questions

Pros

• Contains six short answer type questions

Cons

• No answer key is provided

Common Core

RI.3.1