Kindergarden - Plants

160 Plants: Supplemental Guide 7B | Plants and People

Extensions 15 minutes

 Multiple Meaning Word Activity

Multiple Choice: Pit

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 3M (Pit).] In the read-aloud you heard that “[t]he seed of
   the cherry is inside the cherry pit.” Which picture shows a cherry pit?
   
   
   • one
   
   
   
   


2. Pit also means to compete against each other, like having a race.
   Which picture shows children pitted against each other?
   
   
   • three
   
   
   
   


3. Pit can also be a hole. Which picture shows a hole in the ground?
   
   
   • two
   
   
   
   


4. Now that we have gone over the different meanings for pit, quiz your
   partner on these different meanings. Try to use complete sentences.
   For example you could say, “Valencia and Chien were pitted against
   each other to see who could finish their watermelon slice first.” And
   your partner would respond, “That’s number three.”

 Syntactic Awareness Activity

Making Compound Sentences Using and

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 using a special little word, and.

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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