Changes � How do daily and seasonal changes affect living things?
- reading
- writing
- science (daily and seasonal changes effect on society and environment)
Students explore this inquiry question by first thinking about what they already know about how living things (animals, plants, people) are affected by daily and seasonal changes. Throughout the unit, students will find new information they can connect to their own understandings and focus on what living things do to adapt to daily and seasonal changes. Students will be able to respond to the inquiry question by providing evidence of how different living things are affected by daily and seasonal changes.
Read Aloud � Rain
Info-fiction: Narrative
In this cumulative story, a group of animals living in the African grasslands sense the coming of the rainy season. With the rains come many changes in their environment. The rainy season leads to yet another dry season, showing the cyclical nature of the seasons.
Partner-Shared Reading Texts
These Shared Reading texts reveal what different living things (animals, plants, people) do in the day versus the night. Through the use of photographs and illustrations, readers can clearly distinguish the information and determine how living things adapt to changes in their environment.
Daytime, Nighttime Non-fiction: Description, comparison
- 1 Big Book
- 6 small book versions
This book uses repeated text to describe what a variety of living things do in both the day and the night. The end of the book poses the question back to the readers, asking what they do in the day and night.
What Do You Do in the Cold? Fiction: Narrative, question and answer
- 1 Big Book
- 6 small book versions
In order to find out what he should do in the cold, a young boy asks various friends about what they do when the weather grows cold. Each animal and plant describes a different way in which they adapt to the change in seasons.
Audio CD
Audio CD with fluent reading of both shared reading texts. What Do You Do in the Cold? is accompanied by a song.
DVD
DVD digital versions of the two shared reading texts.
Teaching Guide � print and online
Includes support for Before, During, and After Reading of the texts, Working with Words, text-type writing for Question-and-Answer, modelled, guided, and independent writing, student self-assessment, Oral Language Assessment Scale and developmental checklist, and strategies for concluding and extending the unit.