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What am I?
What does each animal do? Use information from When the Sun Comes Up and When the Sun is Going Down to fill in the chart below.
When the sun comes up
Lesson Plans
Activity card
Play this guessing game with your friends. 1. Cut out the cards below. 2. On the blank card, draw and label an animal of your choice. 3. Place the cards face down in a pile. 4. Take turns picking a card and giving clues about the animal on your card, OR make a rule that you cannot speak and act out the clues instead. 5. The person who guesses the right animal first gets the next turn.
When the sun is going down
duck
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bird spider fox
bird
spider
duck
rabbit
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When the Sun Comes Up is an information book that describes what various animals do each day when the sun rises. Running words: 165 Text type: Explanation
When the Sun is Going Down is a narrative about mother animals persuading their young to go to sleep at sunset. However, there is one mother who needs to wake her young. Running words: 261 Text type: Narrative
High-frequency words
Key vocabulary
New: before eat keep many need things when
animals bat bed bird bugs catch dive duck fox frog hole hunting hunts insects jump/s leaves log lots mother nest plants pond rabbit safe sing sits sleep/s spider spins still sun swim/s time twigs under wake water web worm/s
Phonics
• Identifying the consonant digraph “wh” as in when • Identifying the consonant digraph “ng” as in sing, hunting
When the Sun Comes Up When the Sun is Going Down
• Clear photographs support and extend the text • Repetitive pattern • Dialogue; question marks
Reading strategies
• U sing letter cues – does it look right? • Using letter cues – scanning the word for the final letter
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills
bat
Can the student find relevant information in the texts? Can the student fill in a data chart appropriately?
Level E (8)
Text features
frog
Assessment
fox
Early reading stage
frog
rabbit
bat
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Phonics 1(2) (B) (ii) Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding words with initial and final consonant blends, digraphs, and trigraphs. 1(2) (B) (vi) Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by identifying and reading at least 100 high-frequency words from a research-based list. Reading 1(6) (I) Monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as rereading, using background knowledge, checking for visual cues, and asking questions when understanding breaks down. 1(7) (C) Use text evidence to support an appropriate response. 1(10) (B) Discuss how the use of text structure contributes to the author’s purpose.
Writing 1(12) (A) Dictate or compose literary texts, including personal narratives and poetry. Speaking and Listening 1(10) (B) Discuss how the use of text structure contributes to the author’s purpose.