Challenge your advanced learners with this set of activities based around a common theme. Learners draw, research, share, retell stories, compare and contrast, and more over the course of these activities, which focus mostly on animals and your pupils' lives.

Concepts

spelling, Drawing, animals, facial expressions, initial sounds, final sounds, sharing, presenting, compare and contrast, similarities and differences

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Pick and choose your favorite sections or teach these as suggested in the packet and the teacher instructions included in the materials

Classroom Considerations

• These are designed to accompany a themed unit in Houghton Mifflin's curriculum, but can be taught independently of this unit
• Printable instructions for all of the themes in this curriculum are provided; for this theme, all you need to do find the materials labeled with Theme 1
• This is part of a three-part series; there are 15 challenge activities included because the other parts of the series happen over the course of three school weeks

Pros

• Includes adaptation ideas for English language learners
• Comes with printable instructions for all of the activities in this packet
• See the materials for detailed teacher information on how to use these materials

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.K.1 RL.K.2 W.K.2 SL.K.1.a SL.K.4 SL.K.5