8/14/2019 Guess Who? - Teaching Guide for Who's Looking at Me? - BrickHouse Education - TG9781598351385

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Objectives Compare and contrast, make predictions, make inferences,identify animal traits and behavior

Materials paper, crayons or colored pencils, magnifying glasses, mirrors,sticky ags or strips of paper

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Activate Prior Knowledge Tell children: Today, we will read about animal eyes. Both animals and people use their eyes to see. Do everyones eyes look the same? Do eyes comein different colors? Distribute magnifying glasses and mirrors and have childrencompare and contrast their eyes with a partners. Ask children: What color are your eyes? What color are your partners eyes? How about your eyelashes? Have children draw apicture of their eye using crayons or colored pencils.

Introduce the Focus Skill: Compare and Contrast Explain to the class thatcomparing means telling how things are the same or alike and contrasting meanstelling how they are different. Tell children to compare and contrast the drawings they just made. Ask them to tell you how they are similar and how they are different. Forexample: I drew a blue eye because my eyes are blue. Timmy drew a green eye because his eyes are

green. My eyelashes are brown and curly. Lauries eyelashes are brown and curly, too.

Acquire New Vocabulary Introduce the following words that appear in the book: predator, hunt, scales, swamp,feathers, hoots, tropical, trunk, deserts, and stuns . Write the words on the board. Have children scan the text to nd thewords. Ask them to use ags or strips of paper to mark the pages that they appear on. Tell children to be on the lookout for vocabularywords that appear more than once (i.e. hunts appears on p. 5 and hunt appears on p. 7). Then have children write the words. Reviewspelling and pronunciation as a class.

Read and Respond Display the book. Read the title and author name aloud as you track the print. Tell the class that theyare going to play a guessing game as you read. As you do a picture walk of the book, point to each eye and ask children to guess whatanimal is shown. For example, point to the eye on p. 18. Ask: What animal do you think this eye belongs to? (a camel)Also, encourage childrento compare and contrast the animal eyes throughout the book and make inferences. For example: The eye on page 10(owl) looks a lot likethe one on page 11(eagle). Maybe they are both birds.Have children list their guesses. When they are done, have children vote on the answerfor each page. The majority votes will decide the answer. Check answers at the back of the book when reading is complete. Discussincorrect answers as a class. Then ask and answer questions to review the vocabulary words and make connections to the animals.For example, point to the word deserts on p. 18. Then ask: What is the animal? (a camel) Where does it live? (in the desert) How do you k(because It walks indeserts , mile after mile.). Repeat with other pages and vocabulary words.

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Curricular Enrichment: Science Explain to children that eyes are very important for both animals and peoplebecause we couldnt see without them. Without our eyes, we wouldnt be able to read road signs, see shapes, or know whatanimals look like. Tell children that they are going to draw a picture of an animal eye and label it with the animal name. Theywill also write a Fun Fact or two about the animal they chose, for instance: Eagles can see from very far away. They have very goeyesight. Frogs have transparent eyelids so they can see underwater. Cats can see really well in the dark.You may want to provide access to acomputer for children to conduct additional research. Then compare and contrast the drawings as a class. Encourage childrento read their Fun Facts out loud.

Home Connection (Teacher, you may want to photocopythis activity for children to complete with a family member.) Ask your child to tell you what he/she learned about eyes inschool. Encourage him/her to compare and contrast his/hereyes to yours. For example: I have brown eyes. What color are

yours? (Mine are brown like yours.)or (Mine are hazel like Daddys.)Then point out the eye parts, such as the pupil, iris, etc. Use aashlight to show your child how the pupil contracts when lightis shone directly into it, and how it dilates when the light isdiverted. Ask your child why he/she thinks this happens.

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NATIONAL STANDARDS

Language Arts: K-12.1, K-12.3, K-12.4, K-12.5, K-12.6, K-12.7, K-12.8, K-12.11, K-12.12Mathematics: Numbers PK-2.1, PK-2.2; Algebra PK-2.1, PK-2.4; Geometry PK-2.1PK-2.4;

Measurement PK-2.1; Data & Analysis PK-2.1, PK-2.2; Connections PK-12.3Science: K-4.1, K-4.2, K-4.3, K-4.4Social Studies/Geography: K-12.1, K-12.2, K-12.3, K-12.4Visual Arts: K-4.1, K-4.2, K-4.3, K-4.5, K-4.6Technology: K-12.1, K-12.2, K-12.3, K-12.4, K-12.5