While we read the story, we made a list on the board of some of the different animals and facts about those animals.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.2 Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
If you have this book in your classroom, feel free to download this page and use it with your friends too…grab the freebie here!
Last year I posted about another book by Sandra Markle following the same theme: What if you had Animal Teeth!? I seriously love these stories and so do my little friends! My little friends used pictures of themselves and added their own animal teeth to their faces. They then wrote three facts about the animal they chose. I love both of these stories because they are very entertaining, non fiction text that are full of new facts! You can read more about what I did with this text here.
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| Thanks to Erin at I’m Lovin’ Lit for the background! |
Thanks to Amanda over at Teaching Maddeness for hosting her Must Read Monday linky and Charity over at Classroom Freebies Too for her Manic Monday linky!
5 Responses
Now I need two more books for my classroom! These look wonderful and so engaging for the students. I know they would love writing about this. Thank you for sharing them so I can put them on my list!
Lori
Conversations in Literacy
LOVE…I'm DEFINITELY getting this book at the book fair in two weeks! It better be there!!!!
Alison
Rockin' and Lovin' Learnin'
I LOVVVVVVVE those books and so do my firsties!!!! Thanks for the freebie! 🙂
Growing Firsties
These look like must have books!
Tara
The Math Maniac
Thanks for developing and sharing such great activities! Guess what's coming in January, 2015? WHAT IF YOU HAD ANIMAL FEET!? Here's wishing you and your children lots of fun with that one!