Grade 2 - Read-Aloud Insets

102 Insects: Supplemental Guide 5 | Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Advance Preparation

Make a copy of Instructional Master 5A-1 for each student. Refer

to it as Response Card 4; it has pictures of ants and termites.

Students may refer to the Response Card as you discuss the

content of the lesson.

Create a Venn diagram on chart paper, chalkboard, or whiteboard

as students name differences between ants and termites for

Comprehension Question #8. Also ask students to name ways in

which ants and termites are similar, and add that information to the

chart as well.

Termites Ants

insects;

social;

live in

colonies;

build

chambers;

have a

queen;

work hard

incomplete

metamorphosis;

no exoskeleton;

blind;

more than one

king and queen;

males have more

than one job

complete

metamorphosis;

exoskeleton; only

one queen;

males have only

one job

Make a copy of Instructional Master 5B-1 for each student. This

will be the fi fth page of their Insects Journal. Students will draw

and write about ants and/or termites.

Make a copy of Instructional Master 5B-2 for each student.

Students will plan out their Insect Story on this planning

worksheet. You may wish to reproduce this worksheet on a

transparency and model this planning step for students