Building Skills
Phonics
Explain hyphens to children. Hyphens sometimes connect two words in order to make one describing word. Show children the hyphenated words on page 6 and page 9. Explain that hyphens are important because they tell the reader that the two words are combining to make one idea. Write the term meat-eating plant on the board. Ask: Could you get the same meaning for this term if one of the words were missing? Is meat plant the same as meat-eating plant? How about eating plant? Do you need both words to complete the idea? The hyphen creates a two-word adjective, and we have to think of the two words as one idea to understand the meaning.
Have children complete the worksheet on using hyphens.
Word Work
Word structure
Have children look at the compound words into, sundew, daytime, nighttime, underground. Have children think of some compound words, and write them on a chart paper. Also have children make up compound words and invent definitions for their new words.
Grammar
Have children think about the sentences that were in the book. Ask: Were the sentences questions? Explain that the sentences were declarative. This means that they are factual statements. Have children read four different sentences of their choosing and turn each sentence into a question. Ask: How does this change the information in the book?
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