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K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

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This text set is designed for kindergartners who will be learning about how plants grow.

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1. Plants grow from seeds
2. You can grow lots of plants in a garden
3. You have to make sure your plants have water, sunlight, and soil
4. There are different types of plants such as flowers, fruits, and vegetables

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1.  Plant: A living thing that grows and needs sunlight, soli, and water to live.

Jack's Garden p. 13

Seed to Plant p.4

How a Seed Grows p.1

2. Seed: Plants grow from seeds.

Jack's Garden p.7

Seed to Plant p.10

How a Seed Grows p.1

Lola Plants a Garden p.10

3.Garden: A place where lots of plants are grown

Jack's Garden pg 3

Lola Plants a Garden p.5

4. Soil: The top layer of the Earth’s surface that plants grow in. We plant seeds in soil.

Jack's Garden pg 5

Seed to Plant p.11

How a Seed Grows p.8

5. Shoot: When a plant is starting to grow and comes above the ground.

Seed to Plant p. 10

How a Seed Grows p.21

Lola Plants a Garden p.17

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Before reading, I would start by going over each vocabulary word and their definitions and writing them on an anchor chart. I would tell students to look out for the words in the readings. While reading, I would stop and talk with students about the words as they came up in the stories. We would discuss how each word is used in the text and what we learned about the word, and I would write it on the chart.

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Description: A young boy named Jack has a garden. Readers learn about all of the things that go into helping the plants in the garden grow.

Rationale: This is a predictable book. The repetitive use of "this  is" and "these are" will help students understand the book better. It is a good introduction to growing plants. It goes into many aspects of things needed to help a plant grow and the process of seeds turning into plants. The illustrations provide even more information than the text itself and can lead to class discussions.

Discussion Question 1: Does anyone have a garden at home? What types of things do you do to help the plants in your garden?

Discussion Question 2: Why do you think that it is important that the rain fell on the seeds?

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National Geographic Kids: Seed to Plant by Kristin Baird Rattini

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National Geographic Kids: Seed to Plant by Kristin Baird Rattini

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Description: This is a nonfiction text that gives information about a variety of different aspects of plants. Readers learn things such as how seeds grow, what plants are used for, and parts of a plant.

Rationale: This book is a great introduction to plants. This would be the second book I read, as it goes over many different things about plants, and covers ideas that will continue to be discussed throughout the text set such as what plants need to grow. The visuals and diagrams shown in the text will help students visualize what they are reading. It also gives information about plants that is interesting to students and will motivate them to learn.

Discussion Question 1: What is something that you learned about plants in this text?
This prompt could be used to incorporate clarification into the discussion, as I could ask students to further explain their answers or provide more information about what they learned (West et al., 2021).

Discussion Question 2: Why are plants important?

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Book 3: How a Seed Grows by Helene J. Jordan

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Book 3: How a Seed Grows by Helene J. Jordan

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Description: This book talks about how seeds grow into plants and walks readers through planting their own bean plants. It goes over the things needed to help a bean plant grow and the process of going from a seed to a plant.

Rationale: This informational text is the third book I would read to the class. This book goes through the steps of growing a plant in a way that would be easy for readers to understand. It also shows students that plants need things such as water, sunlight, and soil. If possible, students in the classroom could even follow along with the steps and grow their own bean plants, and then talk about the things they need to do to help the plant grow. This would go along with West, Wright, and Gotwals' (2021) idea that you should connect phenomenon to discussions with students.

Discussion Question 1: How are the plants in the book similar and different to the plants Jack planted in his garden?

Discussion Question 2: What kinds of things do you have to do to help a seed grow?

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Book 4: Lola Plants a Garden by Anna McQuinn

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Book 4: Lola Plants a Garden by Anna McQuinn

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Description: I would end the text set with a storybook about a little girl named Lola. After reading poems about gardens, Lola wants to plant her own. With research and the help of her parents, she grows a flower garden and has her friends over to see it. I would read this book after reading How a Seed Grows.

Rationale: This book is an engaging way to show students how to grow plants. Students are able to see how the main character starts her own garden, which ties into ideas seen in the nonfiction text How a Seed Grows. After reading a nonfiction text about growing plants, students will be able to connect the story to what they have learned. These connections help build coherence across the different lessons (West et al., 2021).

Discussion Question 1: Lola is going to grow her own garden. Now that we have read about how seeds grow into plants, what kinds of things do we know Lola will have to do?

Discussion Question 2: If you were Lola, what kinds of plants would you want to grow in your garden?

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Cole, H. (1997). Jack's Garden. Mulberry Books.

Jordan, H. J., & Krupinski, L. (2015). How a Seed Grows. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

McQuinn, A., & Beardshaw, R. (2017). Lola Plants a Garden. Charlesbridge.

Rattini, K. B. (2014). From Seed to Plant. National Geographic.

West, J.M., Wright, T.S., & Gotwals, A. (2021).  Supporting scientific discussions: Moving kindergartners’ conversations forward.  The Reading Teacher, 74(6), 703-712.