Life Cycles Science 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions

Life Cycles science reading comprehension passages with questions for 2nd grade allow teachers to integrate the content area of science into reading! Your students will focus on asking and answering questions, cause and effect, vocabulary, the author's purpose, and visuals that impact meaning. (Print and Digital Included- Google Sides)

Getting to EVERYTHING can be so difficult. Short informational passages can help a busy teacher cover informational text standards as well as cover important science concepts. This packet can be taught in a week with a bonus science experiment on the last day of the week. Students will have the opportunity to investigate and observe life cycles, Informational text, and The Next Generation Science standards taught at the same time!

What's Inside:

KWL Life Cycles

What Do Living Things Need?

How Do Plants Grow and Change?

How Does the Sun Affect the Earth?

How Do Humans and Animals Grow?

How Do Animals Grow and Change?

Science Vocabulary

Investigating Sunflower Seeds and Pumpkin Seeds

Informational Text Standards:

RI. 1 Questions and answers in nonfiction text

RI. 3 Cause and Effect- connections in scientific concepts

RI. 4 Vocabulary

RI.6 Author's Purpose

RI. 7 Visuals impact meaning