Beruflich Dokumente
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Teaching Guide
identify animal traits and behavior
Who’s Looking At Me?
Materials paper, crayons or colored pencils, magnifying glasses, mirrors,
sticky flags or strips of paper
Introduce the Focus Skill: Compare and Contrast Explain to the class that
comparing means telling how things are the same or alike and contrasting means
telling how they are different. Tell children to compare and contrast the drawings they
just made. Ask them to tell you how they are similar and how they are different. For
example: I drew a blue eye because my eyes are blue. Timmy drew a green eye because his eyes are
green. My eyelashes are brown and curly. Laurie’s eyelashes are brown and curly, too.
Acquire New Vocabulary Introduce the following words that appear in the book: predator, hunt, scales, swamp,
feathers, hoots, tropical, trunk, deserts, and stuns. Write the words on the board. Have children scan the text to find the
words. Ask them to use flags or strips of paper to mark the pages that they appear on. Tell children to be on the lookout for vocabulary
words that appear more than once (i.e. hunts appears on p. 5 and hunt appears on p. 7). Then have children write the words. Review
spelling and pronunciation as a class.
Read and Respond Display the book. Read the title and author name aloud as you track the print. Tell the class that they
are going to play a guessing game as you read. As you do a picture walk of the book, point to each eye and ask children to guess what
animal is shown. For example, point to the eye on p. 18. Ask: What animal do you think this eye belongs to? (a camel) Also, encourage children
to compare and contrast the animal eyes throughout the book and make inferences. For example: The eye on page 10 (owl) looks a lot like
the one on page 11 (eagle). Maybe they are both birds. Have children list their guesses. When they are done, have children vote on the answer
for each page. The majority votes will decide the answer. Check answers at the back of the book when reading is complete. Discuss
incorrect answers as a class. Then ask and answer questions to review the vocabulary words and make connections to the animals.
For example, point to the word deserts on p. 18. Then ask: What is the animal? (a camel) Where does it live? (in the desert) How do you know?
(because “It walks in deserts, mile after mile.”). Repeat with other pages and vocabulary words.