Two products in one! What's a wombat?! Y do jumping beans really jump? Can you ride a seahorse? Are scorpions dangerous? These high-interest / low reading level Google Slides stories & activities, PLUS additional pdf worksheets are sure to capture the attention of reluctant & struggling readers! Designed to turn choppy readers into more fluent, confident readers, Awesome Animals! features vivid photos, short sentences, controlled vocabulary, and a repetition of key words and phrases. A great way to improve reading fluency, comprehension, and general science knowledge!

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These Versatile Lessons are designed to help you work seamlessly between Distance Learning & in Class Instruction!

This versatile bundle set includes:

• 40 Colorful Google Slides Stories
• 40 Skill-based Google Activities Slides
• 48-page enhanced pdf workbook containing additional comprehension, sentence writing, word-to-know vocabulary & cloze-reading activities for each story!
• The workbook is an Enhanced pdf which allows you to cut and paste sentences & activities into new documents - a great way to make student modifications or extend learning!

READY TO USE:
These interactive, no-prep Google Slides are ready to use! Simply download the Google Slides to your Google Classroom/Drive and assign them to your students! Assign the whole set or just a few slides for today's lesson. The worksheets are ready to print and use too!

How do Google Slides Work?

Students read each lesson/activities on a computer or iPad then answer the skill questions right on their copy of the slides. Teachers can see students' answers in real time, or review them later. Slides can also be printed and used as colorful classroom worksheets.

Your students will love these engaging DIGITAL Google Slides lessons! They're perfect for students of all ages as daily homework, skill practice, remediation, review, and distance learning.

What are others saying about Awesome Animals?

"My students LOVED reading about the animals! We even did an extended project on jumping beans! So fun. Thanks" - Dana S.

"Terrific interesting stories at a reading level my lower-level students could read. They really liked them. Thanks for making my job a little easier! - Alli S.

"Good resource for my functional special ed. students and English learners!" - Taylor F.

"It has been a very good resource for short practice passages for reading comprehension." - Mrs. H.

"Great current stories." - Ganya G.

Reading Level: 1.0 - 2.5

Interest Level: 2 - 12

Contents Include:

- 40 Nonfiction Science Topics

- Realistic Colorful Images

- 40 Comprehension & Vocabulary-Building Activity Pages

- List of Words to Know

- Additional questions for extended learning

- Answer Key

Need more information? Here is our Extended Description:
Easy Reading Awesome Animals was created to appeal to reluctant and/ or struggling readers. The stories are ideal to use with individual students or with a small group. The reading level of the stories ranges from grade 1.0 to grade 2.5, as determined by the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale. The wide array of fascinating animal topics and the accompanying realistic illustrations will captivate and hold the interest of any student reading below grade level, regardless of his or her age.
The stories were written using controlled vocabulary and simple sentence structure. Prominent within the stories is the repetition of words and phrases, most noticeably the repetition of each paragraph’s first sentence at the end of the paragraph. This technique has been found to help struggling readers begin to quickly recognize words and phrases, thereby improving reading fluency.The four questions that follow each story will test reading comprehension by requiring students to find facts and locate answers within the story.

Contents:
This product is comprised of 40 stories and accompanied by a 48-page unit of coordinating activities. Activity pages in the unit are reproducible and include cloze reading, alphabetizing, and sentence writing. A “Words to Know” list is included for use prior to reading the stories.

Vocabulary Suggestions & Extended Activities:
Use the “Words to Know” list prior to reading to introduce any words the student may not be familiar with.
Discuss the particular animal the student has chosen to read about. Find out what the student may already know about the animal. Has he or she seen one? Where might this animal be seen? Is this animal dangerous? Would this animal make a good pet?
Following completion of a story, assign the coordinating activity page. Have the student read the completed fill-in-the-blank sentences aloud to assure that they make sense.
When the student shows an interest in a particular animal, help him or her find out more about that animal by using another resource.