No Prep GCSE Biology Cell Biology Literacy Activities

This resource is designed to help students strengthen their understanding of cell structure and function through engaging literacy activities that promote reading, writing, and comprehension skills in science. This resource covers the following areas of middle school cell biology:
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• Eukaryotes and prokaryotes
• Animal cells and plant cells
• Cell specialization
• Cell differentiation
• Microscopy
• Culturing microorganisms
• Diffusion
• Osmosis
• Active transport

Each of the 9 areas covered has 4 different types of activities that come as full A4 sheets, 2 per page and in black and white. The types of literacy activities include:

• A basic literacy activity where students read a piece of key information. Then 3 questions for students to answer using what they have read.

• A SPAG literacy activity. SPAG stands for spelling, punctuation & grammar. Students have to pick out issues as they read through the key information before answering questions based on the text they have read

• A key word identification literacy activity. After students have read the text, they need to pick out 3 key words and explain why they think those key words are important before answering questions based on the text they have read

• A literacy activity with a diagram. Next to the block of text, there is a diagram relating to it. This can help students visualize the concept and make connections to what they already know. There are then 3 short questions for students to answer on the text

• A version of the literacy activity with answers to use with students

Terms of Use

This resource was created by David Chalk, all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students, but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded.