152 Plants: Supplemental Guide 7A | Plants and People
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7 A
Introducing the Read-Aloud 15 minutes
My Plants Pages
- Give students their My Plants Pages booklet.
- Show students an example of completed Plants Page for Lesson 6.
- Have them turn to the next blank page and write the number “6”
on the bottom corner. Tell students to draw something they learned
about evergreen trees. Alternatively, you may choose to have students
go outdoors and find needles from evergreen trees and glue or tape
them onto their Plant Page. - Choose a few students to dictate what they have drawn. Be sure to
repeat back to them what you have written on their paper.
➶ Above and Beyond: If they are able, students may label their
drawing. - Have students share their Plant Page with their partner, in small
groups, or with home language peers. Encourage them to comment
on each other’s picture. Then direct students to go back to their
picture and revise it based on your comments or the comments of
their peers.
Introducing “Plants and People”
- Remind students that they learned about living and nonliving things at
the beginning of this domain. You may wish to refer to the living and
nonliving examples you have in the classroom. - Ask students: “Do you remember what all living things need to survive?”
- All living things need food, water, and air.
- Tell students that in today’s lesson, they will learn that plants provide,
or give, two very important things for animals and humans to survive:
oxygen and food. - Distribute examples of edible plant parts you have prepared for
students to examine. Have them guess what the food is and which
plant part it comes from.