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Review these reading strategies before diving into the booklet/slideshow with students. Select those that fit with your teaching goals and grade level.
| BEFORE READING |
| Anticipate: Look at the booklet cover. Name something you think might be the size of a monarch butterfly egg (or point to it in the classroom). Activate
Prior Knowledge: Create a class KWL chart. The first two
columns should list what students know
and want to know about
how monarchs go from an egg to an adult butterfly. (After reading
the book, students can fill in what they
learned.) |
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| DURING READING |
| Get Meaning from Photos: Look at "The Egg" (page 1). What do you think will happen next? Ask this question again after reading each page. Critical Thinking:
Compare and Contrast: What changes – other than size – do you notice as the monarch grows? Reading for Detail (math): Pose this challenge: How long does it take a monarch to develop from an egg into an adult butterfly? Students add up the lowest and highest number of days for each stage. When does it grow the fastest (fewest days)? the slowest? How long is an average life cycle stage? |
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| AFTER READING: EXTENDING LEARNING |
Sequence Events:
Connections to Self: How long do you think it will take you to develop from a newborn baby into an adult? What might you do at different stages along the way? How might you look at each stage? How will you know when you become an adult? Compare and Contrast: Make a chart with these columns: How are monarch life cycles like human life cycles? How are they different? Complete KWL Chart(s): Complete the KWL chart(s) you started before reading the booklet. Observe More Photos: Students can observe a more detailed sequence of monarch life cycle photos and document their responses on a What I Observe, What I Wonder chart. Observe: What's Happening Now? At what life cycle stages are our local monarchs right now? What examples can we find outdoors? More
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