Theme: Eggs

Grade Levels: JK-SK-Grade 1

PART I

Book Selection

 An Extraordinary Egg by Leo Lionni – big book format

 Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones by Ruth Heller

 “Meg’s Egg”, IN, Tasty Poems, collected by Jill Bennett.

Learning Activities

 Shared Reading – An Extraordinary Egg for four sessions, includes pre-reading,reading and after reading

 Shared Reading with a Focus on Phonics – for two sessions – ample details and script page-by-page

 Interactive Writing with guidelines for reading, demonstration of wonderings and making connections, think-aloud, textuality connections, text reconstruction, framed sentences,

 Book Making Center for a pop-up and a mural with children’s writings.

 Drawing Science Concepts with eleven guidelines

Part II

Book Selection

 Rechenka’s Eggs by Patricia Polacco

 Goose’s Story by Cari Best

 Rechenka’s Eggs. Audio Cassette. New Rochelle, NY: Spoken Arts, 1991.

 Rechenka’s Eggs. Video. Color, 11 minutes. New Rochelle, NY: Spoken Arts, 1991.

 Why Do Geese Fly South in the Winter? A Book about Migration by Kathy Allen

Learning Activities

 Vocabulary instruction based on the Robust Vocabulary Theory

 Interactive Read-aloud for “Rechenka’ s Eggs”

 Interactive Read-aloud “Goose’s Story”

 Book Making Center: Pop-up card – Plasticine

Length of text: 11 pages

File Format: PDF

Price: $10.00