Book Summary
Have you ever wondered why some animals hibernate during the cold winter months? Where do they sleep? How do they survive? Hibernation provides information about animals that hibernate and how they stay alive during the winter months. Amazing photographs bring the text to life and draw young readers into the book.

Book and lesson also available at Levels F and I.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand new information in a nonfiction text
• Compare and contrast information
• Identify rhyming words
• Read and identify common nouns
• Correctly alphabetize words

Materials

• Book -- Hibernation (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Dictionaries
• Compare and contrast, common noun, alphabetical order worksheets
• Discussion cards

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

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: have, its, many, their, they
• Content words: breathe, burrows, cold-blooded, hibernate(s), hibernating, migrate, predators, scarce, sound, survive, torpor, trouble, warm-blooded winter