Using the Daisy Comes Home Prompt
November 15, 2007 at 2:40 pm | In Picture Book Lessons |
WritingFix has a fabulous (and free-to-use) on-line lesson inspired by this picture book. Click here to read the lesson’s overview and have access to all its resources.
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The state of Georgias’ third grade Social Studies standards include teaching about some of the major rivers in the United States. I adapted this lesson to use with these standards. I taught about the rivers, where they begin, end and animals they might see. Then the students chose a river, started their story at a certain location in the river, shared three animals from their chosen river they would see and then shared the location they got out of the river. It was a great way to see what they know about the rivers I taught.
I used this activity pretty much straight from the provided lesson plan. What made it extra special was my class had just gone to the Oxbow Nature study for a field trip, we used this writing project the next day/week for a follow up activity. Since we were studying the Truckee River, the whole class used that for our river and they used animals that they might actually see while floating down the Truckee River.We all ended our trip at Pyramid Lake. We also used our Kid Pix in the computer lab to create a picture to match the story. I really liked how the graphic organizer helped the kids think about equal details-each animal got the same amount of attention in the story. Their final drafts were very well organized just by using the graphic organizer.