Grade 2 Short Stories Comprehension – A Desert Toad’s Tale. Easy short stories with comprehension for Second graders. Free eBooks/Flipbooks and PDFs
A Desert Toad’s Tale – Short Stories Comprehension
Grade 2 Short Stories Comprehension – A Desert Toad’s Tale
Grade 2, Unit 5
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Life in the desert
Content Objectives
Children will:
- Learn about the concept of life in the desert.
- Access prior knowledge and build background about desert animals.
- Explore and apply the concept of desert animals to why desert animals are able to survive in a desert habitat.
Language Objectives
Children will:
- Demonstrate an understanding of deserts.
- Orally use words that describe what desert animals look like.
- Extend oral vocabulary by talking about how desert animals are different from other animals.
- Use key concept words [polar bear, clownfish, rattlesnake, den, reef, the Arctic, habitat].
Explain
Explain that children are going to learn about:
- What a habitat is.
- What the Arctic habitat is like.
- What a coral reef habitat is like.
- What a desert habitat is like.
Model
- Ask children: What do you see in this picture? (sand, rocks, a few plants). Why is a desert a hard place to live? (really hot, really dry, very little water to drink).
- Proceed to the next slide. Ask children: Why does a camel’s hump help it live in a desert? (helps it go longer without food).
- Say: The desert seems like a hard place to live. If you lived in the desert, what would you do to be comfortable? (answers will vary).
Apply
Have children play the games that follow. Have them discuss with their partner the different topics that appear during the Talk About It feature. After the first game, ask children to talk about how they can tell which animals can survive in the desert and help them learn more about the animals they’re interested in. After the second game, have them discuss whether they would want to live in a desert.
Close
- Ask children: Why is the desert a good habit for some animals? Explain.
- Summarize for children that a desert is an area that is very hot, very dry, and very sandy. A desert can be a hard place to live, but some plants and animals have special ways to survive in the desert. Encourage children to think about what they would do and see on a trip to a desert.
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