Lesson Plan
A Day at the Zoo
Your class will have so much fun reading books about the zoo and sharing reactions about the story that your they will be itching for a class field trip to the zoo!
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Learning Objectives
Students will narrate several linked events, use specific details to tell about the events in order, and provide a reaction to what happened.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Inform your students that you are going to be reading two stories about the zoo today.
- Ask them if they have ever been to the zoo. Allow them to describe to the class a short memory, like an animal, things or people they saw, or their favorite part of the zoo.
- Encourage students to share information about their experience at the zoo and specific details about things that happened during their visit.
Beginning
- Pair students with another student who speaks the same home language (LI) to share their thinking.
Intermediate
- Preview unknown concepts, such as a zoo by providing visuals such as pictures or movies.