Author: Katherine B. Hauth Illustrator: David Clark
Copyright: 2011
Publisher:Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge
Reading Level: 7-10 years old
Description: insightful, descriptive, comical, detailed, and visual
Suggested Delivery: Independent/Group Read
Electronic Resources:
Poetry Writing Lessons for Kids: Poetry for Kids
This website has creative lessons for students to learn how to write different types of poetry.
ELA Teaching Suggestions:
Key Vocabulary-
reside: where something stays/lives
jackknifes: to move rapidly at an angle
vegetarian: something/someone that only eats vegetables
dainty: delicate
phalarope: a slender-necked shorebird
forte: a talent/skill
grand jeté: a jump where a dancer jumps on one leg and lands on the other
alliance: a team
carcass: skeleton
pulverized: crushed up (chewed up)
defecation: pooping
menagerie: a collection of wild animals
abates: reduce/lesson/decrease
muddle: mess
dither: vibration
escort: a person/animals that guides others
deceit: the act of tricking
adjoining: connecting
mottled: speckled
Before- Since there is a lot of vocabulary that means the same thing in the book, have students skim through the book and create shades of meaning.
During- Ask students to analyze the poems on each page (Does the poem rhyme? Does the poem not rhyme? What does it have? How many syllables does each line have? What is that type of poem? What is the structure of the words?)
After- After analyzing the poems, ask students why they think the author chose to create each poem in the style that she did.
Writing Activity- Have students pick an animal that is not already in the book and create their own poem about it.
Copyright: 2011
Publisher:Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge
Reading Level: 7-10 years old
Description: insightful, descriptive, comical, detailed, and visual
Suggested Delivery: Independent/Group Read
Electronic Resources:
Poetry Writing Lessons for Kids: Poetry for Kids
This website has creative lessons for students to learn how to write different types of poetry.
This
website has detailed information about the different diets of specific animals,
carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, and food chains.
Key Vocabulary-
reside: where something stays/lives
jackknifes: to move rapidly at an angle
vegetarian: something/someone that only eats vegetables
dainty: delicate
phalarope: a slender-necked shorebird
forte: a talent/skill
grand jeté: a jump where a dancer jumps on one leg and lands on the other
alliance: a team
carcass: skeleton
pulverized: crushed up (chewed up)
defecation: pooping
menagerie: a collection of wild animals
abates: reduce/lesson/decrease
muddle: mess
dither: vibration
escort: a person/animals that guides others
deceit: the act of tricking
adjoining: connecting
mottled: speckled
Before- Since there is a lot of vocabulary that means the same thing in the book, have students skim through the book and create shades of meaning.
During- Ask students to analyze the poems on each page (Does the poem rhyme? Does the poem not rhyme? What does it have? How many syllables does each line have? What is that type of poem? What is the structure of the words?)
After- After analyzing the poems, ask students why they think the author chose to create each poem in the style that she did.
Writing Activity- Have students pick an animal that is not already in the book and create their own poem about it.
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