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Little Turtle. 3rd Grade Language Arts Mary Ruebusch McCurdy School. Click for Teacher Pages. Teacher Page OBJECTIVE: The learner will use a Graphic Organizer to remember and retell a story. The learner will relate science principles to the poem. ACTIVITY: The students will read a poem
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Little Turtle 3rd Grade Language Arts Mary Ruebusch McCurdy School Click for Teacher Pages
Teacher PageOBJECTIVE: The learner will use a Graphic Organizer to remember and retell a story. The learner will relate science principles to the poem. ACTIVITY: The students will read a poem and remember and retell it using a web. The class will write in journals and discuss answers to questions about turtles.
Teacher Page PROCEDURE: 1. Copy the poem either for the class or on a transparency. (The next slide contains the complete poem.) 2.Click through and read slides. 3. Students will make a web to remember and retell the story. 4. Students will use a journal to answer questions about the animals in the poem.
Little Turtleby Vachel Lindsey There was a little turtle Who lived in a box. He swam in the puddles And he climbed on the rocks. He snapped at a mosquito. He snapped at a flea.He snapped at a minnow, And he snapped at me. He caught the mosquito. He caught the flea.He caught the minnow, But he didn’t catch me!
Little Turtleby Vachel Lindsey There was a little turtle Who lived in a box. He swam in the puddles And he climbed on the rocks. continue
He snapped at a mosquito. He snapped at a flea.He snapped at a minnow, And he snapped at me. continue Minnow= a small fish
He caught the mosquito. He caught the flea.He caught the minnow, But he didn’t catch me!
Make a web of the things that were snapped at by the turtle. Answer follows.
Web of the things that were snapped at by the turtle. Click 5 times for answers mosquito flea Turtle me minnow
Use your web to retell the poem. Write a paragraph about what happens in the poem.
What clues did you find in the poem to prove whether the turtle was a meat eater or a plant eater?
Label the animals in the poem--insect, mammal, reptile, or fish.
Explain why the turtle was able to catch some things and not others.
Was this poem fantasy or realistic? Explain your answer. The end