These Earth Day reading comprehension activities will be perfect in teaching your students about key issues that face the planet as well as improving their close reading skills. There are** 5 passages** which focus on **climate change, deforestation, bees, plastic and endangered species. **Each passage has an accompanying questions sheet which will develop their skills of vocabulary, comprehension and information retrieval. These sheets could be as individual or group work and have an approximate Lexile range of 810-1000L. You might also like my **FREE Tigers **close reading sheets here: Tigers or my Science resources for Year 1: Science Bundle

Phonics Alphabet Worksheets Animals Included in this packet is a worksheet for each letter of the alphabet using an animal theme. Be aware that although all the ‘main’ images are animals there aren’t enough animals for all the circle activities for every letter, so there are couple of other images that are unrelated to animals! Can’t be helped, X is a hard letter! Students can write their name at the top and then each worksheet has: Trace the letter activity (caps and lower) Circle the picture beginning with the letter activity Colour in the correct letter activity The designs look lovely printed in colour but will print fine in gray scale if you are producing lots of them for a class. You could use these as part of a wider animal topic or as a morning work activity. These are also great for home school students! I hope you enjoy this product and please review positively if you do! :)

ABC Animal Flash Cards Printable This is a set of animal alphabet flash cards which are easily printable for teachers or homeschool parents. Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a different animal to make learning the ABCs fun for little ones! There are 4 cards to a page so 7 pages in total. We advise printing these on your highest quality colour setting on to card or laminate them for future use. Animals included are: Alligator Bunny Cat Dog Eel Flamingo Goldfish Hedgehog Iguana Jellyfish Koala Lion Manatee Narwal Owl Pig Quail Raccoon Snake Tiger Raccoon Snake Tiger Urchin Vulture Whale X Ray Fish Yak Zebra

Close Reading Animal Passages Tiger This close reading passage is on the topic of tigers and is suitable for key stage 1 pupils. It will develop your pupils’ comprehension skills as well as understanding and information retrieval skills. It includes: A non fiction passage (2 per slide for less printing) A set of three sheets for differentiation; one sheet focuses primarily on drawing what they learnt by picking out extracts from the text, the second asks students to reflect on what they have learnt and the third focuses more on vocabulary and deeper understanding.