Book Summary
This book introduces students to the various environments of animals and plants on Earth. Animal cards are provided for students to cut apart and place in the appropriate environment in the book. Repetitive phrases and high-frequency words support early readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
• Identify setting
• Discriminate final sound /s/
• Identify final consonant Ss
• Recognize plural nouns
• List words in alphabetical order

Materials

• Book -- Places Plants and Animals Live (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Animal cards (found at the back of the book Places Plants and Animals Live)
• Final consonant Ss, plural nouns worksheets

    Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: all, and, are, be, can, has, in, no, the, very
• Content words: animals, cold, deserts, flat, grassy, hot, mountains, oceans, plains, plants, rainforests, rivers, salty, steep, tall, trees, tundra, water, wet, world