Write a booklet report about a real or imaginary trip to the desert. These pages include directions for writing specific information about your trip, including animals, plants, and sights, and daily journal pages. Prompts develop narrative, persuasive, and descriptive writing skills.
List of desert insects and spiders to research, with a list of targeted questions to answer in a box. The boxes can be cut out to make a bulletin board display.
An introduction to some basic poetic structures, including alliteration, similes, and acrostics, using desert themes. Includes border paper for final drafts.
From "beetle" to "red velvet mites". These vocabulary building word strips with pictures are great for word walls, sentence strips, spelling and vocabulary practice.
Nothing lifeless about this: plants, animals, and people who live in the desert are all included. This desert unit also includes vocabulary work, grammar reviews, a writing prompt, and word problems.
Do you know the difference between a dromedary and a Bactrian? Which one has two humps? Your students will know this and more after this thorough reading comprehension.