This close reading packet contains leveled texts, comprehension questions, and journal responses relating to topics around life cycles, traits and inheritance.

The titles of the texts are:

• Genetics According to Gregor Mendel
• Insects//Mammals (paired texts)
• Instinctive Plant Behaviors

Each of those close reading sets includes:

- Essential question

- Leveled texts (available at beginning, middle, and end of third grade levels)

- 3 sets of CCSS aligned questions

- 2 journal prompts (1 corresponding to the EQ and another at DOK 4 relating to the content of the text)

These are also available digitally as Google Slides presentations. Each leveled text, its question sets and journal prompts are in a presentation, so each title has 3 presentations (B/M/E). That's a total of 9 Google Slides presentations.

Please NOTE: These are the same close reading articles included in the complete NGSS traits and inheritance unit and the Gr3 Close Reading Bundle. If you have already purchased or plan to purchase the complete unit or close reading bundle, you already own this close reading set.

For paperless math, science, and literacy activities to go with this close reading, check out the Traits and Life Cycles Digital Packet.

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