My Text Set: 5th Grade Science Life Cycles

Along with two classmates, I designed a set of 11 books that could be used while teaching about animal life cycles in fifth grade.  This SOL includes the topics of animal habitats, diets, survival mechanisms, relationships with one another and other species, and fossils.  We chose books written not only on a fifth grade level but on many reading levels so that all children in the classroom could be appropriately challenged when learning this material.  We have included these Flesch-Kinkaid reading levels, as well as a citation, summary, and suggested literacy-building activity for each book.