Grade 1 - Animals and Habitats

140 Animals and Habitats: Supplemental Guide 7 | Animals of the Freshwater Habitat

Exercise Materials Details

Syntactic Awareness Activity:

Making a List Using the

Conjunction or

Images 7A-7, 7A-8, and 7A-11;

Large display with space for three

words and the conjunction or,

separated by two commas.

, , or

Vocabulary Instructional

Activity: Enormous

Image 7A-4; chart paper, green,

yellow, and red markers, tape,

index cards

Create a Horizontal Word Wall for

enormous.

Habitat Journal: The

Freshwater Habitat

Instructional Master 7B-1, drawing

tools

Advance Preparation

Find an age-appropriate short video about freshwater habitats

(e.g., rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, wetlands) to show to the class.

For Syntactic Awareness Activity, create a large display with space

for three words, the conjunction or, separated by two commas.

The display should look like the following:

, , or

For the Vocabulary Instructional Activity, create a Horizontal Word

Wall by drawing a horizontal line from left to right on a large piece

of chart paper. Write each of the following words on an individual

index card: (in green) tiny, mini, petite, wee, little, small; (in yellow)

medium, normal, average; (in red) enormous, gigantic, colossal,

giant, jumbo, large, big.

Make a copy of Instructional Master 7B-1 for each student. This

will be the freshwater habitat page in their Habitat Journals.