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🌱 Engage Readers with Science + Writing: Venus Flytrap Performance Task
Perfect for Grades 2–5 | ELA • Informational Text • Comprehension • Writing
🔍 Help your students build reading comprehension AND writing skills with a meaningful cross-curricular performance task centered around the fascinating Venus flytrap!
📚 What This Resource Includes
✔ Leveled informational reading passages (3 levels to support diverse learners)
✔ “Right There” comprehension questions — students locate and highlight answers directly from the text
✔ Answer key for quick checking
✔ Letter-writing template — students write a friendly letter explaining how to care for a Venus flytrap based on text evidence
✔ Aligned to CCSS RI.2.1–RI.4.1 & W.2.2–W.5.2 standards
🎯 Skills Students Practice
✨ Close reading and text evidence
✨ Citation and comprehension
✨ Informational writing with a real-world purpose
✨ Vocabulary in context
💡 Why Teachers Love It
🌿 Easy to prep — print and go
🌿 Differentiated reading levels
🌿 Great for small groups, literacy centers, or independent work
🌿 Engaging science connection that motivates students
🌿 Supports both reading AND writing instruction
A MEANINGFUL PERFORMANCE TASK ASSESSMENT!
This activity is one that can be made so meaningful, to students, especially if there is a Venus fly trap in the classroom. I bought one from the grocery store for less than $5! Carnivorous plants are such a hit with young students, use this as a great teaching focus!
The problem can be posed that you are unsure of how to take care of the plant and need the students’ help to understand what the Venus fly trap needs to live, whether you have one or are thinking of getting one. Students then answer the questions you have using one of the leveled readers in this download.
The questions are on the seventh page and the students should color code the questions and the “right there” answers in the text. Then, when students have answered all of the questions, ask them to write you a letter about how to take care of the plant. There is a template for letter writing on the eighth page of this download.
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Isabelle O'Kane from Wild & Free in Grade Three
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Venus Flytrap Performance Task | Informational Text, Questions, & Letter Writing
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What others say
Description
🌱 Engage Readers with Science + Writing: Venus Flytrap Performance Task
Perfect for Grades 2–5 | ELA • Informational Text • Comprehension • Writing
🔍 Help your students build reading comprehension AND writing skills with a meaningful cross-curricular performance task centered around the fascinating Venus flytrap!
📚 What This Resource Includes
✔ Leveled informational reading passages (3 levels to support diverse learners)
✔ “Right There” comprehension questions — students locate and highlight answers directly from the text
✔ Answer key for quick checking
✔ Letter-writing template — students write a friendly letter explaining how to care for a Venus flytrap based on text evidence
✔ Aligned to CCSS RI.2.1–RI.4.1 & W.2.2–W.5.2 standards
🎯 Skills Students Practice
✨ Close reading and text evidence
✨ Citation and comprehension
✨ Informational writing with a real-world purpose
✨ Vocabulary in context
💡 Why Teachers Love It
🌿 Easy to prep — print and go
🌿 Differentiated reading levels
🌿 Great for small groups, literacy centers, or independent work
🌿 Engaging science connection that motivates students
🌿 Supports both reading AND writing instruction
A MEANINGFUL PERFORMANCE TASK ASSESSMENT!
This activity is one that can be made so meaningful, to students, especially if there is a Venus fly trap in the classroom. I bought one from the grocery store for less than $5! Carnivorous plants are such a hit with young students, use this as a great teaching focus!
The problem can be posed that you are unsure of how to take care of the plant and need the students’ help to understand what the Venus fly trap needs to live, whether you have one or are thinking of getting one. Students then answer the questions you have using one of the leveled readers in this download.
The questions are on the seventh page and the students should color code the questions and the “right there” answers in the text. Then, when students have answered all of the questions, ask them to write you a letter about how to take care of the plant. There is a template for letter writing on the eighth page of this download.
☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼
50% off new items for the first 24 hours!
Click the green follow star next to my store logo to be alerted of these deals!
Don't forget to provide feedback on your purchases to receive TPT credit to use towards future purchases! Feedback is also helpful in letting the seller know what you love and want more of! Thanks in advance!
☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼
Thank you for your support!
Isabelle O'Kane from Wild & Free in Grade Three
For more from Isabelle O'Kane, visit her TPT store!
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