Weird Bird Beaks Level H
Text Type: Nonfiction • Word Count : 130

Book Summary
Have you ever wondered why some birds have such weird beaks? Have you wondered how they can eat or fly with such oddly shaped beaks? Weird Bird Beaks provides insight as to why some birds have the weird beaks they do. Illustrations support the text.

Book and lesson also available at levels N and R.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Summarize

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand nonfiction text
• Identify details to compare and contrast beaks
• Manipulate medial sounds
• Read words with long /e/ digraphs
• Identify adjectives and the nouns they describe
• Recognize and use antonyms

Materials

• Book -- Weird Bird Beaks (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Sticky notes
• Thesauruses
• World maps
• Compare and contrast, long /e/ digraphs, adjectives, antonyms worksheets
• Discussion cards

      Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be demonstrated by projecting book on interactive whiteboard or completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: long, use, very
• Content words: beak, bearded barbet, crossbill, pelican, rhinoceros hornbill, shoebill stork, spoonbill, sword-billed hummingbird, toucan