Description

This is a comprehensive nonfiction unit on rainforests.

Here is what is included:
*Reading passages (these can be printed as articles or projected):

• All About Rainforests
• Forest Floor
• Understory
• Canopy
• Emergent Layer
• Where Are Rainforests
• People of the Rainforest
• Rainforest Deforestation
• Animals of the Rainforest
• Food From the Rainforest
• Products From the Rainforest
• Plants From the Rainforest

*Picture files cards for some of the vocabulary words
*Six videos attached to QR codes for your students to watch and record what they learn about rainforests.
*Vocabulary word wall cards
*Vocabulary word book
*Vocabulary word detective page
*Rainforest notes- gathering facts and evidence from readings
*Caption This! – writing captions related to a drawing
*KWL charts
*Main Idea and detail page
*Can, have, are pages
*Graphic organizers
*Discussion cards that can be used for conversations or writing prompts.
*Writing paper in various sizes

For the QR codes, you will need a QR reader app downloaded onto a tablet or phone.  There are many free ones in the app store.