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Bird, Bird, Bird (A Chirping Chant)
English/Language Arts Standards
Kindergarten
K.1.1 Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
K.1.2 Follow words from left to right and from top to bottom on the printed page.
K.1.3 Understand that printed materials provide information. Continue reading “Standards for Bird, Bird, Bird: A Chirping Chant”
These are based on Indiana Standards but should fit most.
Ant, Ant, Ant (An Insect Chant)
English/Language Arts Standards
Kindergarten
K.1.1 Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
K.1.2 Follow words from left to right and from top to bottom on the printed page.
K.1.3 Understand that printed materials provide information.
K.1.4 Recognize that sentences in print are made up of separate words.
K.1.5 Distinguish letters from words.
K.1.6 Recognize and name all capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
K.1.10 Say rhyming words in response to an oral prompt.
K.1.22 Listen to stories read aloud and use the vocabulary in those stories in oral language. Continue reading “English/Language Arts and Science Standards for Ant, Ant, Ant: An Insect Chant”
| Sayre’s Books As Models For Teaching The 6 + Traits of Writing |
| Ideas | (details, development, focus) | Trout Are Made of Trees
Stars Beneath Your Bed: the Surprising Story of Dust Secrets of Sound: Studying the Calls of Whales, Elephants, and Birds Ocean, Coral Reef, and other in the “Exploring Earth’s Biomes” series |
| Organization | (internal structure) | Vulture View
Trout Are Made of Trees Home At Last: a Song of Migration Secrets of Sound: Studying the Calls of Whales, Elephants, and Birds Ocean, Coral Reef, and other in the “Exploring Earth’s Biomes” series |
| Voice | (tone, style, purpose, audience) | Trout Are Made of Trees
The Bumblebee Queen If You Should Hear a Honey Guide Army Ant Parade Dig, Wait, Listen: a Desert Toad’s Tale |
| Word Choice | (precise language and phrasing) | Vulture View
The Bumblebee Queen Stars Beneath Your Bed Dig, Wait, Listen: a Desert Toad’s Tale Shadows Secrets of Sound: Studying the Calls of Whales, Elephants, and Birds |
| Sentence Fluency | (rhythm, cadence) | Vulture View
Bird, Bird, Bird: a Chirping Chant Home At Last: a Song of Migration Trout, Trout, Trout: a Fish Chant Ant, Ant, Ant: An Insect Chant Shadows |
| Conventions | (mechanical correctness) | any |
| Presentation | (handwriting, formatting, layout) | The Bumblebee QueenTrout, Trout, Trout: a Fish Chant
One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab (Great for pagination.) |
Indiana Mathematics Standards
(Why every Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade teacher in Indiana needs her/his own copy ONE IS A SNAIL, TEN IS A CRAB.)
ONE IS A SNAIL, TEN IS A CRAB provides a fun and creative way to fulfill the standards below. For ideas on how to extend the book to fulfill standards, particularly problem solving, see the projects used by others in the educator’s section. Worksheets of related math problems are also available in the educator’s section.
KINDERGARTEN
Standard 1: Number Sense
Students understand the relationship between numbers and quantities up to 10, and that a set of objects has the same number in all situations regardless of the position or arrangement of the objects.
K.1.1 Match sets of objects one-to-one.
K.1.2 Compare sets of up to ten objects and identify whether one set is equal to, more than, or less than another.
K.1.3 Know that larger numbers describe sets with more objects in them than sets described by smaller numbers. Continue reading “IN Math Standards Fulfilled by One Is a Snail”
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