Grade 1 - Animals and Habitats

16 Animals and Habitats: Supplemental Guide 1 | What Is a Habitat?

 Lesson Objectives

Core Content Objectives

Students will:

 Explain what a habitat is

 Explain why living things live in habitats to which they are

particularly suited

Language Arts Objectives

The following language arts objectives are addressed in this

lesson. Objectives aligning with the Common Core State

Standards are noted with the corresponding standard in

parentheses. Refer to the Alignment Chart for additional standards

addressed in all lessons in this domain.

Students will:

 Describe an illustration of an alley habitat and use pictures and

detail in “What Is a Habitat?” to describe the read-aloud’s key

ideas (RI.1.7)

 Compare and contrast students’ habitats with the alley habitat

described in “What Is a Habitat?” (RI.1.9)

 Make personal connections to the habitats described in “What

Is a Habitat?” (W.1.8)

 With assistance, categorize and organize information about the

food and shelter seen in their habitat (W.1.8)

 Describe Rattenborough’s habitat in “What Is a Habitat?” with

relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly (SL.1.4)

 Sort words and ideas into the categories of living and nonliving

to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent (L.1.5a)

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