Product Description

Give your students an engaging, SBAC-style informational performance task that blends science + informational reading + research + writing—all with a high-interest topic: Louis Pasteur and how his discoveries helped keep people safe and healthy.

Students will read three student-friendly sources about Pasteur (food spoilage & pasteurization, vaccines, and hospital sanitation), answer text-dependent comprehension questions, respond to research questions, and then write a 5-paragraph informational article using evidence from multiple sources.

This resource is perfect for test prep, a science/ELA integrated unit, or an end-of-unit performance task and it includes clear structure and scaffolds to support writers at different levels.

What’s Included

✅ Student Directions/Scenario

✅ 3 informational sources with visuals/diagrams

• Source #1: Spoiled food & pasteurization
• Source #2: Vaccines + how they work
• Source #3: Hospital sanitation & stopping infections
  Informative Performance

✅ Comprehension questions for each source
✅ Research questions (includes a color-coded “match evidence to sources” activity + a written response)

✅ Writing task: 5-paragraph informational article prompt with expectations

✅ Graphic organizers for:
Introduction (hook + background + thesis)
3 body paragraphs (claim, evidence, reasoning)
Conclusion (restate thesis + final thought)
✅ Student-friendly informational writing rubric aligned to W.5.2 components
✅ Typing/formatting checklist (great for final drafts)
✅ Word bank to support vocabulary development

Skills Covered

• Reading informational text & citing evidence
• Comparing/connecting ideas across multiple sources
• Responding to research questions
• Writing an organized informational essay (intro/body/conclusion)
• Using academic vocabulary (germs, infection, pasteurization, vaccine, etc.