Home Plan - [GR2-L5-U1-LC1-17 What Lives in This Hole]

The document provides tips and activities for elementary school students to learn new vocabulary related to animals and their habitats, specifically focusing on animals that live in burrows like naked mole rats, puffins, salamanders, and wombats. The suggested activities include looking at pictures, learning definitions, and answering questions to enhance comprehension. The document aims to help students utilize new vocabulary, improve reading comprehension skills, ask questions, and identify main ideas and details related to animal habitats. It also encourages students to engage with the text by summarizing content and discussing the habits and roles of different animals living in holes.

Contents

• Pages 1—28: Animal vocabulary activities.
• Pages 29—49: Animal hole activities.

The document section provides tips and activities to introduce elementary school students to various vocabulary words related to animals and their habitats. It includes definitions and examples related to animals living in burrows, such as naked mole rats, puffins, salamanders, and wombats. The suggested activities involve looking at pictures, learning definitions, reading sample sentences, and answering questions to check for understanding. The document aims to help students use new vocabulary, understand text, ask questions, and identify main ideas and details in the context of animal habitats. It also introduces reading comprehension skills and strategies to enhance students’ understanding of the text, such as predicting the main idea and details, asking questions before, during, and after reading, interpreting the table of contents, and answering questions about the text.

The section of the document provides various tips and activities for students to engage with the text they are reading, focusing on different animals that live in holes such as naked mole rats, salamanders, and wombats. The activities involve reading the text, answering questions in their own words, and comprehending the information presented in the text. The section includes descriptions of how these animals live, their habits like digging tunnels, laying eggs, and staying cool, as well as the roles of male and female animals. The activities aim to familiarize students with the main ideas and details of the text, allowing them to summarize and talk freely about the content. Additional activities are also suggested for further engagement with the topic if time allows.