Amazing Animals

Lesson 4
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ELA

Unit 3

1st Grade

Lesson 4 of 24

Objective


Explain what it means to camouflage and give two examples of how animals use camouflage to survive.

Readings and Materials


  • Book: What Color Is Camouflage? by Carolyn B. Otto 

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Target Task


Discussion & Writing Prompt

What is camouflage? Give two examples of how animals can use camouflage to survive.

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Key Questions


  • What do you notice on these pages? What do you wonder?

  • What is camouflage? Give an example of how animals camouflage from pp. 10-13.

  • Describe two to three different ways that animals camouflage themselves. How does the camouflage help them survive?

  • Describe two to three different ways that animals camouflage themselves. How does the camouflage help them survive?

  • Create four different sentences about what you see in the illustrations on pp. 31 and 32.

Vocabulary


disguise

v.

to change the way something looks so it is unrecognizable

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Common Core Standards


  • L.1.1.j — Produce and expand complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.
  • L.1.2.b — Use end punctuation for sentences.
  • L.1.4 — Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
  • L.1.6 — Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships (e.g., because).
  • RI.1.4 — Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases 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
  • SL.1.2 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Supporting Standards

RI.1.1
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