Theme: Ants

Grade Levels: JK-SK-Grade 1

Part I: Thinking about Ants

Book Selection

Thinking about Ants by Barbara Brenner

Learning Activities

 Activity One: Shared Reading “Thinking about Ants” & Vocabulary Development

 Activity Two: Writing Workshop – Making a Classroom Big Book on Harvester Ants

Part II: Two Bad Ants

Book Selection

 Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg

Learning Activities

 Activity One: Visual Literacy – “Two Bad Ants”

Part III: The Cobbler’s Holiday or Why Ants Don’t Wear Shoes

Book Selection

The Cobbler’s Holiday or Why Ants Don’t Wear Shoes by Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Centipede’s One Hundred Shoes by Toni Ross

Learning Activities

 Activity One: Interactive Read-aloud

 Activity Two: Choral Reading a nursery rhyme

 Activity Three: Social Studies

 Activity Four: Math Activities

 Activity Five: Interactive Writing I

 Activity Six: Interactive Writing II

 Activity Seven: Art

 Activity Eight: Wall Story

 Activity Nine: Retelling with Sequence Picture

Length of Text: 18 pages

File Format: PDF

Price: $10.00