Amazing Animals

Lesson 5
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ELA

Unit 3

1st Grade

Lesson 5 of 24

Objective


Explain how animals use colors to survive.

Readings and Materials


  • Book: Living Color by Steve Jenkins  pp. 1 – 10 — (red and blue)

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Target Task


Discussion & Writing Prompt

Pick two animals. Write four different sentences to describe each animal.

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Key Questions


  • How does the Malaysian cherry-red centipede use its color to survive?

  • How does the stonefish use its color to survive?

  • How does the flame scallop use its color to survive?

  • Pick one other animal that uses the color red to survive. Explain how.

  • How does the poison dart frog use the color blue to survive?

  • How do the cobalt blue-tarantula, the blue-tailed skink, and the blue-tonged skink use the color blue to survive?

  • Pick one other animal that uses the color blue to survive. Explain how.

Vocabulary


poisonous

adj.

produces poison to attack enemies or prey

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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.
  • 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

Supporting Standards

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