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Little Turtle

Little Turtle. 3rd Grade Language Arts Mary Ruebusch McCurdy School. Click for Teacher Pages. Teacher Page OBJECTIVE: The learner will use a Graphic Organizer to remember and retell a story. The learner will relate science principles to the poem. ACTIVITY: The students will read a poem

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Little Turtle

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  1. Little Turtle 3rd Grade Language Arts Mary Ruebusch McCurdy School Click for Teacher Pages

  2. Teacher PageOBJECTIVE: The learner will use a Graphic Organizer to remember and retell a story. The learner will relate science principles to the poem. ACTIVITY: The students will read a poem and remember and retell it using a web. The class will write in journals and discuss answers to questions about turtles.

  3. Teacher Page PROCEDURE: 1. Copy the poem either for the class or on a transparency. (The next slide contains the complete poem.) 2.Click through and read slides. 3. Students will make a web to remember and retell the story. 4. Students will use a journal to answer questions about the animals in the poem.

  4. Little Turtleby Vachel Lindsey There was a little turtle Who lived in a box. He swam in the puddles And he climbed on the rocks. He snapped at a mosquito. He snapped at a flea.He snapped at a minnow, And he snapped at me. He caught the mosquito. He caught the flea.He caught the minnow, But he didn’t catch me!

  5. Little Turtleby Vachel Lindsey There was a little turtle Who lived in a box. He swam in the puddles And he climbed on the rocks. continue

  6. He snapped at a mosquito. He snapped at a flea.He snapped at a minnow, And he snapped at me. continue Minnow= a small fish

  7. He caught the mosquito. He caught the flea.He caught the minnow, But he didn’t catch me!

  8. Make a web of the things that were snapped at by the turtle. Answer follows.

  9. Web of the things that were snapped at by the turtle. Click 5 times for answers mosquito flea Turtle me minnow

  10. Use your web to retell the poem. Write a paragraph about what happens in the poem.

  11. What clues did you find in the poem to prove whether the turtle was a meat eater or a plant eater?

  12. Label the animals in the poem--insect, mammal, reptile, or fish.

  13. Explain why the turtle was able to catch some things and not others.

  14. Was this poem fantasy or realistic? Explain your answer. The end

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