Rocking and Rolling with Reading

Introduction

A day at the zoo is always such fun! You can see lions, and tigers, and bears. Oh my! You are going to read a book about animals you can see at the zoo. After you read the story, you will write down and answer questions about your favorite animal. Start think about these questions:

1) What is the name of your favorite animal?

2) Was that animal in the book?

3) What type of weather does your animal like?

4) What food does it eat?

5) What sound does it make?

6) From the arctic animal link, why are many animals white?

7) Did you see any of the same animals on the different links?

8) Do the African Animals look like the arctic animals?

9) What anmal was floating on his backs with another animal of the same species.

10) Do you think the pink birds were well protected from predators?

Task

1) Read the Story about zoo animals.

2) Using paper and pencil, write the answers to the questions.

3) Draw a picture of your animal.

4) Tell the class about the questions you answered and share your picture.

The questions and pictures will be hung out in the hall for parent teacher conferences, and can be entered in the art show.

Process

First, read the book about zoo animals. Next, pull out your pencil and paper to answer these questions.

1) What is the name of your favorite animal?

2) Was that animal in the book?

3) What type of weather does your animal like?

4) What food does it eat?

5) What sound does it make?

6) From the arctic animal link, why are many animals white?

7) Did you see any of the same animals on the different links?

8) Do the African Animals look like the arctic animals?

9) What anmal was floating on his backs with another animal of the same species.

10) Do you think the pink birds were well protected from predators?

I will provide some links to help you with your project:

This link is some real pictures of animals.

This link has funny animal pictures.

This link has animal fun facts

This link has exotic African animals

This link has arctic animals.

[video:https://youtu.be/McQl6I2oZis]

Evaluation

Best Score

Good Score

Let’s Work On It

I answered all the questions.

3

Answered all

2

Attempted to answer all

1

Had trouble answering most questions

I Drew And Colored My Animal

3

Sketched animal and used losts of colors

2

Sketched but used some color

1

Very little drawn or colored

I Talked To The Class About My Animal

3

Spoke loud and showed picture

2

Quiet and showed picture

1

Did not want to speak or show picture

Conclusion

This project will help you practice answering questions about a topic, and actively talking to students about their animal. This is building up your super powers for finding the hidden treasure of information in the texts you read.