58 Plants: Supplemental Guide 2B | Plant Parts
Extensions 15 minutes
Multiple Meaning Word Activity
Multiple Choice: Leaves
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.
- [Show Poster 2M (Leaves).] In the read-aloud you heard: “[L]eaves are
usually green, but they can be other colors too.” Which picture shows
the leaves of a plant?- one
- Leaves also mean other things. To l e ave means to go away from a
place. Which picture shows a girl leaving her home?- two
- Leaves also has another meaning. To leave something means to put
it somewhere and forget about it. Which picture shows someone
leaving her keys on the table?- three
- Now that we have learned the different meanings for leaves, quiz your
partner on these different meanings. Use the word leaves when you
tell about it. For example, you could say, “Weishen leaves her artwork
at the table instead of putting it on the drying rack.” And your partner
would respond, “That’s number three.”
Syntactic Awareness Activity
Simple Sentences with the Plural /s/, /z/, or /es/
Materials: Pictures or realia of plant parts: seeds, leaves, stems,
and flowers
Directions: When we want to show that there is more than one thing, we
will use /s/ at the end of most nouns. Remember, nouns can be people,
places, animals, or things.
PPlant Partslant Parts^2 B
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