FSTL TEKS FL Amazing Gardens - The Giant's Garden

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Gardens galore

Design your own amazing garden Draw and label an amazing garden you would like to grow.

Use Amazing Gardens to fill in the data chart. Type of garden

Description of the garden

Lesson Plans

Activity card

Blackline master

Purpose of the garden

Maze garden

Fluent reading stage Level K (20)

Name of your garden: Purpose of your garden:

Vertical garden

Amazing Gardens explains how different types of gardens are made, and the purpose of each type of garden.

The Giant’s Garden is a narrative about a giant who does not like people. But this doesn’t stop Harriet from making friends with the giant and creating a magical garden with him.

Running words: 528 Text type: Explanation

Running words: 788 Text type: Narrative

Content vocabulary

butterfly/ies carrots corn crops dug eggplants farm flower fruit trees garden/s grow/s hedges herbs leaves maze plant/s/ed pumpkins shrubs sky farm soil stems temperature trees vegetables vertical garden water watering can weeds

Phonics

• Identifying “ui” making the /oo/ sound as in fruit • Identifying “eau” making the /ew/ sound as in beautiful

Sky farm Text structures and features Amazing Gardens

• Contents page; chapter headings; index

The Giant’s Garden

• Dialogue • Chapter headings

Reading strategies

• Using multiple sources of information • Reading dialogue with fluency and expression

Storybook garden

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills

Assessment Can the student use his/her knowledge of a topic to fill in a data chart? Can the student find relevant information in a text?

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Phonics 2(2) (B) (ii) Decoding words with silent letters. 2(2) (B) (vii) Identifying and reading high-frequency words from a research-based list. Reading 2(6) (H) Synthesize information to create new understanding. 2(7) (B) Write brief comments on literary or informational texts that demonstrate an understanding of the text. 2(13) (A) Generate questions on a topic for formal and informal inquiry.

Writing 2(12) (A) Compose literary texts, including personal narratives and poetry. Speaking and Listening 2(10) (C) Discuss the author’s use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes.


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