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Unit 3
1st Grade
Lesson 2 of 24
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Explain how animals use different body parts to survive.
Book: What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins — p. 15 - end
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Pick one animal and explain how it uses its eyes, feet, or mouth to survive.
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Questions about the text that will help guide the students understanding
How do humans use their eyes to survive? How do you predict animals might use their eyes to survive?
How do a bald eagle and a horned lizard use their eyes to survive?
How do humans use their feet to survive? How might animals use their feet to survive?
How do water striders and mountain goats use their feet to survive?
How do humans use their mouth to survive? How do you predict other animals might use their mouth to survive?
How do mosquitos and egg-eating snakes use their mouths to survive?
Literary terms, text-based vocabulary, idioms and word parts to be taught with the text
predator
n.
an animal that eats other animals
prey
an animal that is eaten by other animals
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RI.1.3 — Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
RI.1.6 — Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.
RI.1.7 — Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
SL.1.1 — Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
RI.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RI.1.10 — With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1.
Lesson 1
Lesson 3
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Writing
Identify and use simple sentences with correct ending punctuation.
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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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Narrative – 3 days
Write a narrative about an animal using its color to camouflage and survive.
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Write questions using the words who, what, where, when, why, and how.
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Write four sentences that describe how a red-eyed tree frog gets its food.
Explain what different animals do if something wants to eat them.
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Discussion & Writing
Debate if camouflage is the most effective way for animals to protect themselves.
RI.1.3 RI.1.6 RI.1.7 SL.1.1 SL.1.2 SL.1.3 SL.1.5 SL.1.6
Explain how different animals rely on their brothers and sisters for survival.
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Describe how different brothers and sisters rely on each other for survival.
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.
RI.1.3 RI.1.6 RI.1.7 SL.1.1 SL.1.2 SL.1.3 SL.1.4 SL.1.5 SL.1.6
Writing – 4 days
Write an informational report about a specific animal.
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Explain how lizards are the same and how they are different.
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RI.1.2 RI.1.3 RI.1.6 RI.1.7
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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Assessment
Informative Writing – 4 days
Write a research report on an endangered species.
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