Evergreen Trees in Winter
Students read a nonfiction passage about how evergreen trees survive winter, written at 9 reading levels (kindergarten to 8th grade), and answer multiple-choice questions about it.
Student Objectives
- Read a nonfiction passage and find the three ways evergreens survive winter.
- Explain why waxy needles, special sap, and sloping branches help a tree in the cold.
- Compare pine, spruce, and fir trees using details about needles and cones.
- Find the sentence that supports an answer and name the text structure of a paragraph.