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Explain how animals use colors to survive.
Book: Living Color by Steve Jenkins pp. 1 – 10 — (red and blue)
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Pick two animals. Write four different sentences to describe each animal.
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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.
Literary terms, text-based vocabulary, idioms and word parts to be taught with the text
poisonous
adj.
produces poison to attack enemies or prey
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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
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RI.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
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Describe how animals use color to survive.
Explain how animals use different body parts to survive.
Standards
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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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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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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 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.
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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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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 a research report on an endangered species.
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