Sloth Wants to Snooze
Perezosa quería dormir
Sloth Wants to Snooze
Sloth Wants to Snooze
Sloth Wants to Snooze
Sloth Wants to Snooze
Sloth Wants to Snooze
Fantasy (fiction), 109 words, Level E (Grade 1), Lexile 310L
Sloth wants to snooze, but everywhere she goes is too noisy. The monkeys, the bugs, even the lizards are making too much racket for her to get any rest. What will she do? Sloth Wants to Snooze introduces students to one of nature’s more unusual animals, the sloth, and its favorite activity, sleeping. Colorful illustrations add humor and detail. The story also presents opportunities to study sequencing events and verbs.
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Lesson Resources
Teach the Objectives
Reading Strategy
Make, revise, and confirm predictions to understand text
Comprehension
Sequence Events : Sequence events
Phonological Awareness
Initial Blends : Discriminate initial consonant sl-blends
Phonics
Consonant Blends : Identify initial consonant sl-blends
Grammar and Mechanics
Verbs : Identify and use verbs
Word Work
Onomatopoeia : Recognize and use onomatopoeia
Think, Collaborate, Discuss
Promote higher-order thinking for small groups
or whole class
