Introducing The Ultimate Resource to Deepen Students’ Understanding of Seeds and Plant Life! Perfect for expanding vocabulary, encouraging creativity through poetry, and integrating science and literacy in an engaging and meaningful way.
Engage your students with our print-and-go book companion worksheets, tailored to complement the enchanting book ‘A Seed is Sleepy’. This comprehensive workbook includes 22 carefully crafted worksheets, offering a multitude of engaging activities, from exploring vocabulary to creating captivating seed poems. Designed for busy teachers like you, this resource effortlessly integrates into various learning settings, making it perfect for guided reading groups, literacy centers, independent practice, and more!
Key Features:
Vocabulary Exploration: Dive deep into the rich vocabulary of the book, examining the author’s word choices, and justifying how the words personify seeds.
Seed Poem Creation: Stimulate creativity with two ‘write your own seed poem’ worksheets, providing students with an opportunity to express their understanding through poetic writing.
Frayer Model-Based Activities: The worksheets are based on the Frayer Model, encouraging students to research dictionary definitions, write word definitions in their own words, and find examples and non-examples of the selected words.
Benefits:
Fostering Vocabulary Proficiency: By delving into the selected adjectives, students will enhance their vocabulary and language comprehension skills.
Encouraging Critical Thinking: Justifying the author’s word choice and answering thought-provoking questions like “how is a seed secretive?” or “how is a seed generous?” will nurture critical thinking and analysis.
Integrating Science and Literacy: Our resource seamlessly blends plant life concepts, life cycles, and farm-to-table processes with language arts, creating a well-rounded learning experience.
What’s included:
1 schema & ‘what I learned’ follow up worksheet
17 vocabulary worksheets for 13 adjectives
2 ‘describe a seed with your own adjectives’ applying knowledge worksheets
2 write your own seed poem worksheets
** Due to copyright reasons the ‘A Seed is Sleepy’ book is not included in this resource.
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Reading skills:
activities are based on the Frayer Model
research dictionary definitions
write word definitions in your own words
find examples of the word
find non-examples of the word
justify the authors word choice
Ways you can use this resource:
Guided reading groups
Literacy Center or Station
Independent practise
Small group work
Whole group work
Reading assessment
Example text for writing**