Kindergarden - Plants

Plants: Supplemental Guide 5B| Deciduous Trees 129

Extensions 15 minutes

 Multiple Meaning Word Activity

Sentence in Context: Sheds

Note: You may choose to have students hold up one, two, or three

fingers to indicate which image shows the meaning being described

or have a student walk up to the poster and point to the image being

described.

1. [Show Poster 4M (Sheds).] In the read-aloud you heard, “An apple tree
   sheds its leaves every year.” Which picture shows this?
   
   
   • one
   
   
   
   


2. Sheds can also mean other things. To shed can mean to come out in
   small drops, like shedding a tear. Which picture shows this?
   
   
   • three
   
   
   
   


3. Sheds can mean small buildings used for keeping things. Usually they
   are in the backyard. Which picture shows this?
   
   
   • two
   
   
   
   


4. Now with your partner, make a sentence for each meaning of sheds.
   Try to use complete sentences. I will call on some of you to share your
   sentences.

 Syntactic Awareness Activity

Expanding Simple Sentences

Directions: I will show you a picture. Then I will ask one question at a

time. Each time a question is answered, we will add it to our sentence to

make our sentence expand.

Note: There may be variations in the sentences created by your class.

Allow for these variations and restate students’ sentences so that they

are grammatical. Repeat each sentence for the students. If necessary,

ask students to repeat your sentence.

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