Carnivorous Plant Bundle: Nonfiction, Fiction, Writing, Crafts and More

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62 Unique pages over 200 total pages

Documents are available in full color, ink-saving color, black and white, and ink-saving black and white

Answer sheets are available where applicable

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NONFICTION MAIN TOPIC

Read the nonfiction story Snap, Stick, Trap: Carnivorous Plants in Action. This story focuses on how these carnivores of the plant world capture their prey. Read about the sundew plant, Venus flytrap, pitcher plant, and cobra lily as well as a carnivorous bromeliad, brocchinia reducta. These plants have different ways for trapping insects using sticky surfaces, trap doors, slippery walls, and bowls of enticing digestive fluids. This text was written on a second-grade reading level.

Play a game such as Pictionary or charades with the vocabulary word cards. There are 16 vocabulary cards provided. Eight word cards and eight definition cards. The vocabulary words included are: carnivorous, digest, native, survive, lure, prey, irresistible, and waxy. These words are used frequently throughout the unit to help reinforce their meanings.

Practice RI. 2.2 Main Topic and Key details with an adorable recording sheet.

Work on comprehension by labeling the plants with their proper names. All plants except one are carnivorous. Actual photos are used. There is a writing prompt asking which plant is not carnivorous. There is also a carnivorous plants sort where students can sort which plants eat insects from the ones that do not.

Complete the Venus flytrap craft by writing facts about the carnivorous plant inside the trap and putting the craft together. Students can also choose a different plant from the story to write about if they don’t want to write about the Venus flytrap.

Work on RI.2.5 as students search the text for various text features. They are then prompted to reflect on how the photographs helped them to better understand the text. Practice with photo captions as students caption the carnivorous plant photos and then write a caption of their own.

Early finishers have a fun maze to complete. The maze is also a way to check their understanding of which plants are carnivorous as they are not allowed to pass through the carnivorous plants.

WHAT'S INSIDE?

• Cute Carnivorous Plants poster

• Nonfiction Text, Snap, Stick, Trap: Carnivorous Plants in Action

• 16 Vocabulary Cards [8 word cards, 8 definition cards]

• Main Topic Recording Paper

• Label the Plants Paper

• Venus flytrap Craft

• Early Finisher Maze

• Carnivorous Plants Sort

• Text Features Find

• Caption the Photo

NONFICTION GEOGRAPHY

Read the nonfiction story about carnivorous plants, Where in the World are Carnivorous Plants? This story focuses on the location of carnivores of the plants. Read about the sundew plant, Venus flytrap, pitcher plant, and cobra lily as well as a carnivorous bromeliad, brocchinia reducta. These plants can be found all over the world including North and South America, Australia, Africa, Asia, and even Europe. The only continent without carnivorous plants is Antarctica. Can students predict why that might be? This text was written on a second-grade reading level.

Play a game such as Pictionary or charades with the vocabulary word cards. There are 16 vocabulary cards provided. Eight word cards and eight definition cards. The vocabulary words included are environment, widespread, bogs, and swamps. Also included are compass directions north, south, east, and west. These words are used frequently throughout the unit to help reinforce their meanings.

Practice RI.2.9 by comparing and contrasting two types of carnivorous plants. Gather information about a specific carnivorous plant and record them on the Information gathering recording sheet. You can use the internet to look up additional information OR get the entire unit which includes more texts about these plants.

Further work on comparing by recording the differences between different types of wetlands. Many carnivorous plants are found in wetlands. Research more about bogs, marshes, swamps, and fens. A simpler ecosystem sort is also provided that has students sorting swamps, mountains, deserts, and rainforests.

Practice W.2.2 as students use the information they have gathered on their carnivorous plant to write an informative essay about it. Cute, themed writing paper is included.

Practice with identifying fact and opinion with a carnivorous plants fact and opinion paper.

Practice with L.2.1 and parts of speech. Identify and capitalize proper nouns with a proper noun worksheet. Complete an adorable pitcher plant craft and then cut out the fly nouns and verbs. This pitcher plant is picky and only eats nouns. Have the students feed it with a cute pitcher plant game.

Incorporate geography and work on reading comprehension as students sort the countries mentioned in the text by continent. There is also a seven continents labeling worksheet to help refresh student’s memories on the names of the continents.

WHAT'S INSIDE?

• Cute Carnivorous Plants poster

• Nonfiction Text, Where in the World are Carnivorous Plants?

• 16 Vocabulary Cards [8 word cards, 8 definition cards]

• Comparing Carnivorous Plants Paper

• Information Gathering Recording Paper

• Cute Carnivorous Plants Writing Paper

• Proper Nouns Worksheet

• Carnivorous Plants of the World Continent Paper

• Seven Continents Paper

• Pitcher Plant Craft

• Sort the Nouns and Verbs [Feed the Flies to the Pitcher Plant]

• Sort fact and opinion

• What’s the Difference Between Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, and Fens

• Label the Ecosystem: Swamp, Mountain, Desert, and rainforest

FICTION STORY

Read the fiction story about carnivorous plants, Malika’s Snapping Pet. This story focuses on Malika’s search for the perfect pet. She’s quite picky and none of the usual pets are fitting the bill. Finally, she discovers a Venus flytrap. Can a plant be a pet? Students can practice predicting and inferring from the pictures RL.2.7 as well as seeing dialogue in use. This text was written on a second-grade reading level.

Play a game such as Pictionary or charades with the vocabulary word cards. There are 16 vocabulary cards provided. Eight word cards and eight definition cards. The vocabulary words included are impressed, delightful, tabby, swat, tropical, hermit crab, ignore, and joyful. These words are used frequently throughout the unit to help reinforce their meanings.

Practice the correct punctuation for when characters speak. Apply quotation marks to dialogue with a quotation worksheet. Then write your own sentence with dialogue.

Further work L.2.1 with using and identifying the parts of speech. There is an identify the adverb worksheet where you can practice with Montessori marks to help visualize adverb usage. There is also an adjective worksheet of a similar style. There is a Montessori-aligned Parts of Speech poster to help kids visualize the Montessori symbols for different parts of speech. Students can then color the symbols to help them remember which color goes with which part of speech. There are cutouts of of manipulatives for the parts of speech symbols.

Practice W.2.3 as students write their own narrative stories about carnivorous plants. There is a planning paper included. Cute, themed final draft writing paper is also included. There are narrative rubrics for the teacher as well as a student-friendly version.

There is a make-a-bromeliad craft. Not all bromeliads are carnivorous. The species of bromeliad, brocchinia reductaI, is one example of a carnivorous bromeliad. You can use the internet to look up additional information OR get the entire unit which includes more texts about these plants.

Early finishers can complete a cute flower word search of adjectives used in the story. There is also a maze where they can help Malika get to her new pet and then write about their favorite kind of plant using an adjective and an adverb. Also included is a carnivorous plants coloring page with a writing prompt.

WHAT'S INSIDE?

• Cute Carnivorous Plants Poster

• Fiction Text, Malika’s Snapping Pet

• 16 Vocabulary Cards [8 word cards, 8 definition cards]

• Quotations Worksheet

• Adverbs Worksheet

• Adjectives Worksheet

• Adjectives Flower Word Search

• Malika’s Maze

• Parts of Speech Poster

• Parts of Speech Coloring

• Parts of Speech Manipulatives

• Carnivorous Plant Coloring Page with Writing Prompt

• Narrative Writing Planning Paper

• Carnivorous Plant Narrative Final Draft Paper

• Narrative Writing Rubric for Teachers

• Narrative Writing Rubric for Students

• Make a Bromeliad Craft

SPELLING

Take a bite out of this spelling unit with a carnivorous plant theme. Practice with two phonics patterns. Carnivorous has an r-controlled vowel pattern. Practice the ar pattern with other words. Plants has a blend. Work on the pl blend with other words as well. Words used are carnivorous, shark, car, alarm, arm, part, plant, play, plate, plow, place, and please. Read a funny poem with all these words included. There are multiple activities to give students lots of practice with these words.

What's Inside?

• Carnivorous Plants Poster

• 12 Spelling words with two phonics patterns [carnivorous, shark, car, alarm, arm, part, plant, play, plate, plow, place, please]

• Spelling word poster with words and a picture for each word

• A cute themed alphabet to make the spelling words

• Match the words to the picture to check student understanding of the meaning

• Read the words in context with a funny poem

• Sort the Spelling Words

• Finish the Pattern

• Categorize the Words

• Put the Spelling Words in ABC Order

• 5 Center or Homework activities [write the words, draw the words, rainbow words, fancy words, and color code the words]

The Text level can be compared with: 2nd grade, age 7-8, lexis 810, AR 2.5, DRA 28, Fountas & Pinnell L, reading recover 20, PM readers 22 gold

This unit was originally made for 2nd grade but can be used with many elementary grades and possibly even an advanced preschooler.

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