Grade 1 - Animals and Habitats

42 Animals and Habitats: Supplemental Guide 2A | Animals of the Arctic Habitat

Now, speaking of home, I really must go. It’s absolutely frigid^10

here, and my whisker warmers just aren’t doing the job! We’ve

learned a lot about the Arctic habitat and the animals that have

managed to adapt and survive here. I think our next stop should

be somewhere warmer, don’t you? Remember that even habitats

as extremely cold as the Arctic tundra and Arctic Ocean can be full

of life. Now, it’s not easy for me to stay hidden in all this snow, and

I can barely move with all these clothes on, so I’m getting out of

here before I’m spotted by that Arctic fox. See you next time!

Discussing the Read-Aloud 15 minutes

Comprehension Questions 10 minutes

If students have diffi culty responding to questions, reread pertinent

passages of the read-aloud and/or refer to specifi c images. If

students give one-word answers and/or fail to use read-aloud

or domain vocabulary in their responses, acknowledge correct

responses by expanding the students’ responses using richer

and more complex language. Ask students to answer in complete

sentences by having them restate the question in their responses.

1. Literal Describe the Arctic tundra habitat. (The Arctic tundra
   is very cold and windy. The ground is frozen and covered with
   ice during the winter, when there is very little sunlight. In the
   summer, the top layer of ice melts, and the ground gets wet
   and muddy. It has no trees, or is treeless.)


2. Literal Describe the Arctic Ocean habitat. (very cold water; too
   cold for many living creatures to live in for very long; covered
   with a great deal of ice)


3. Inferential What kind of plants grow in the Arctic tundra?
   (mosses and grasses) How have these plants adapted to the
   Arctic tundra? (grow close together, grow low to the ground)


4. Inferential How have seals adapted to keep warm? (They have
   fur coats and a layer of blubber beneath their skin.)

10 or very, very cold