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Teaching Living and Non-Living to EL students(Reading in Content)

Author: Banlang Phommasouvanh

Living and Non-Living Things

How will students process and check what they’ve just learned by summarizing, connecting, and asking and answering questions?
I will have students answer the questions, “What Did You Learn?”
1. What can all living things do?
All living things can grow and change.
2. What is need?
A need is something a living thing must have in order to live.
After Reading
Nonliving things are different than living things. Write to explain some of the ways they are different. Use words from the reading as you write.
Sentence stems:

The nonliving things are different from the living thing because they…

Unlike the living things , the nonliving things can not…

Organizing Information
Graphic Organizer: Alike and Different
Students will complete the Alike and the Different chart to tell how the needs of plants and animals are alike and how they are different.

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Source: Pearson Success Net and Promethean Planet