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Exploring Penguin Care: Understanding the Emperor's Egg

In this lesson, we dive into the fascinating world of Emperor penguins, focusing on the roles of male and female penguins during the egg care process. Students will learn about penguin behavior, the significance of teamwork in parenting, and the challenges faced by these incredible birds in their harsh environment. We will activate prior knowledge on penguins and make connections to personal experiences and other texts. Additionally, students will engage in vocabulary word study, focusing on prefixes and high-frequency words, and explore persuasive writing through creative activities.

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Exploring Penguin Care: Understanding the Emperor's Egg

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  1. Unit 6, Week 3, Day 2 Growing Up

  2. Reinforce the Theme • Page 16, The Emperor’s Egg • Is this a male or female penguin? What is he/she doing? • Why is he/she taking care of the egg? • How will he/she take care of it? Activate Prior Knowledge • What have you learned so far about penguins?

  3. Reinforce Theme Vocabulary

  4. Comprehension Strategy Make Connections: • Connect text to your own life (text-to-self) • Connect to other texts (text-to-text) • Connect to outside world (text-to-world)

  5. Making Connections • Page 17- Reading about the penguins standing in the snow makes me think of a time I was waiting for a bus on a snowy day. I had to stand there for a long time. My feet felt like blocks of ice. I was very uncomfortable.

  6. Prepare to Read • Preview and predict • Think about the Theme Question: How do living things grow and change? • Read pages 18-32 • How does the author help you connect with the penguin not having food? • What activity does this part remind you of? How does • that connection help you understand the text? • Why do male and female penguins make a good team?

  7. Word Study • Prefixes: Sometimes a beginning can be added to a word to change its meaning. • pre- “before” • in-, im- “not” Underline the base word, circle the prefix and give definition. prepay incorrect impossible imperfect invisible preview

  8. High-Frequency Words: been, brother, stronger, year • Decodable Reader #22: Clare’s Secret • Fluency: “Growing Up” (dialogue) Practice companion p. 108 (phrasing)

  9. Characteristics of Persuasive Writing:

  10. Traits Focus: Ideas • A factis something that actually happened or can be proved true or false. • An opinion is a statement that tells someone’s feelings about a subject. It is a personal judgment, view, or idea. It cannot be proven true or false. (Use practice p. 137 to practice)

  11. Writing: Persuasive Poster • Reread Writing Models Chart 44 (Practice p. 137) Choose a Topic

  12. Generate Ideas:

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