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Describe how different brothers and sisters rely on each other for survival.
Book: Sisters and Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page pp. 10–18
Rubric: Editing Checklist 2 (G1, U3)
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Explain how animals use different body parts to survive.
Standards
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Use frequently occurring conjunctions and a comma to produce compound sentences.
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Explain what it means to camouflage and give two examples of how animals use camouflage to survive.
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Explain how animals use colors to survive.
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Describe how animals use color to survive.
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3 days
Write a narrative about an animal using its color to camouflage and survive.
Brainstorm a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end.
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Draft a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end.
Revise compound sentences to remove and replace repetitive words.
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Write two compound sentences about the gecko.
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Use frequently occurring adjectives to describe nouns.
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Explain what different animals do if something wants to eat them.
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Debate if camouflage is the most effective way for animals to protect themselves.
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Explain how different animals rely on their brothers and sisters for survival.
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Describe how different animals rely on their brothers and sisters for survival.
Discuss the behaviors parents, siblings, and babies engage in to help each other survive.
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Write an informational report about how an animal group survives.
Brainstorm the main idea and supporting facts about an animal group before writing an informational report.
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Draft an informational report to teach a reader about an animal and how it survives.
Revise an informational text by adding text features to tell the reader more information.
Explain how lizards are the same and how they are different.
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Explain how frogs are the same and how they are different.
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Discuss the ways individual animals of the same kind are similar and different.
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Write an informational report about an endangered species.
Brainstorm the main idea and supporting facts about an endangered animal group before writing an informational report.
Draft an informational report to teach a reader about an endangered animal, the challenges it faces, and a potential solution to its challenges.
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