Storm on the Desert

In the classroom/library:

Goal:
to use literature to access information about the desert and its creatures to make connections to the environment to use the text as an art prompt Created a web on the board by asking students what they could expect to find or see on the desert.

Relevant questions asked: (PO3) What animals live in the desert? Can you predict what the story is about by looking at the book jacket? What other things are found in the desert?

After reading Storm on the Desert students created their own art work based on the web and text.

 

ARIZONA STANDARDS:

READING:
Concept 6: Comprehension Strategies: Employ strategies to comprehend text.
PO 1. Predict events and actions, based upon prior knowledge and text features.
PO2. Compare a prediction about an action or event to what actually occurred within a text.
PO 3. Ask relevant questions in order to comprehend text.
PO 4. Answer clarifying questions in order to comprehend text.
PO 5. Extract information from graphic organizers (e.g., webs, Venn diagrams, flow charts) to comprehend text.
PO 6. Connect information and events in text to experience and to related text and sources.

ART:
1AV-F1. Select and use subjects, themes and symbols in works of art
PO 1. Use subjects in a work of art
PO 2. Use themes in a work of art
PO 3. Use symbols in a work of art

Possible links to: Language Arts - subjects and themes; Social Studies - subjects and themes; Technology - use of electronic encyclopedias, indexes, catalogs as references.

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