Lesson Plans for EXTREME ANIMALS level K

Building Skills

Phonics
Long and Short Vowel Sounds
All vowel letters have more than one sound associated with them. Draw a two-column chart on the board. Write Short Vowel Sounds at the top on the left and Long Vowel Sounds at the top on the right. Write the words fat/fate, met/meet, Tim/time, pot/poke, and tub/tube in the appropriate columns. Have children say these words. Have volunteers come up with other examples. Give children the vowel worksheet to complete, leaving the chart on the chalkboard for reference.

Word Work
Have children look through the text to find the opposites. Make a list of opposites on the chalkboard. Have children brainstorm their own favorite opposite words and incorporate them in the list. Have children add the words to their word notebooks. Word notebooks are spiral notebooks or any type of notepad in which children write new vocabulary words.

Mechanics/Grammar
Discuss how the apostrophe s shows ownership. Write the following words on the board: whale’s, lizard’s, father’s, cricket’s, eagle’s, ostrich’s. Have children say a sentence using each word, for example—The whale’s tail made a big splash. Ask children how else they can express ownership. To help them think of ownership words, say: This is ________ shirt. These are ________ shoes. Point to children’s clothing or your own to demonstrate as you read the sentences.


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