1st Grade Unit--Frogs

Standards
accesses information using various formats; explains meaning of a visual and/or aural message
Big 6/Handy Five
listens to others' ideas, waits for one's turn and describes others' ideas accurately and completely
think-pair-share

Lesson Plan

Resources

Everything on It by Shel Silverstein, The Frog, p. 81
The Frog Wore Red Suspenders by Jack Prelutsky
Toad by the Road by Joanne Ryder
Frog Went A-Courtin' by John Langstaff

Increasing Engagement PDF

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Day 1  KWL
           Fiction:    Poem The Frog by Shel Silverstein            Nonfiction: Frogs and Toads and Tadpoles, too       
           Vocabulary: Researcher, Scientist, frog, tadpole, egg
           think, pair, share
Day 2   
            Fiction:  The Frog Wore Red Suspenders by Jack Prelustky       Nonfiction: Tale of a Tadpole
           listens to others' ideas, waits for one's turn and describes others' ideas accurately and completely
Day 3  
           Fiction: Toad by the Road, poem The Pond's Chorus            Nonfiction: Poison Dart Frogs Up Close
          accesses information using various formats; explains meaning of a visual and/or aural message
Day 4
          Fiction:  Frog Went A-Courtin'            Nonfiction: A Wood Frog's Life
          Big 6/ Handy 5 
         What have we learned round up