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Reading Lesson with Rain Forests
Sara Broughton
Title: Reading About the Rain Forests
Content Area: Language arts (reading) and social studies
Objective: The students will obtain information about
rain forests by reading different books.
Materials: Four to five books on rain forests: Rain
Forest by: H. Cowcher, Tropical Rain Forest : Around
the World by: E. Landau, What's in the Rain Forest
by: S. Ross, Animals of the Rain Forest by: L. Stone,
and Amazing Tropical Birds by: G. Legg.
Directions: Divide the class into groups of four to six.
Set up the room in stations with a different book at each station.
Assign the groups to their first station and then have them
rotate clockwise until each group has read each book. The students
should preview the books and discuss the illustrations first and
then read. The members of the groups should have a turn to read
from each book. Encourage the students to pay attention as they
read because they will be discussing and writing in their journals
later. After each group has read the books have them discuss
as a class the different books and what they learned. Talk about
the different animals and plants native to the rain forests.
Discuss with the students what they liked or didn't like about
each book and the illustrations. After the discussion the students
will be writing in their journals what they learned new about
rain forest and what they would like to learn.
Assessment/Evaluation: Use the journal writings as a way
to assess the students knowledge about rain forests. Keep in
mind that some students are going to have more previous knowledge
of rain forests.
Adaptation/Assessment: As an extension to this activity
or a different form of assessment, you could have the students
make a poster advertising one of the books they just read. They
would need to include information abut the book and rain forests
and also illustrations.
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