Home Plan - [GR1-L3-U1-LC1-25 City Animals]

The document provides detailed lesson plans and activities for teaching students about animals living in cities, with a focus on vocabulary, comprehension, and identifying main ideas and details. The lessons include engaging activities to help students understand new words, make predictions, and reflect on their learnings about city animals like dogs, ducks, geese, hawks, mice, opossums, pigeons, raccoons, and squirrels. Extension activities are also offered to deepen students’ understanding through additional information and discussions, enhancing their knowledge of city-dwelling animals.

Contents

• Pages 1—44: Urban animal lesson
• Pages 45—54: Main idea practice.

This section of the document provides tips, learning objectives, and activities for a guided reading lesson focused on animals that live in cities. The lesson includes vocabulary words such as dogs, ducks, geese, hawks, mice, opossums, pigeons, raccoons, and squirrels. The activities aim to help students understand the new words, make predictions, identify main ideas and details, and match phrases to pictures. There are questions to encourage students to think about the animals living in their area and also comprehend the text by answering questions related to the behaviors and habitats of city animals like geese, ducks, mice, squirrels, pigeons, opossums, raccoons, and hawks. The lesson’s structure includes introducing new words, reading and matching activities, comprehension questions, and discussions about city animals.

This section of the document discusses teaching students about identifying the main idea and details in a text, with examples related to American food and different kinds of animals living in the city. It includes activities for students to practice identifying main ideas and details and to reflect on what they have learned. The document also outlines the use of context words, making predictions, and reflecting on new learnings about animals. The extension activities aim to deepen students’ understanding of animals living in cities by providing additional information and opportunities for discussion.