All About Flowers

Building academic language

Sentence

• Explain that students will now get make observations, or look closely to see what they notice as they explore flowers with a peer.
• Model how to use sentence frames to share observations with a peer.
• Pass out 1 flower per two students and have students spend time using magnifying glasses and close looking to observe their flowers.
• Create a classroom anchor chart titled "Flowers" and post it on the board to add to and reference.
• Read aloud the text The Tiny SeedBy Eric Carle, pausing as you read to define new vocabulary words (using vocabulary cards and glossary) and placing the words on the classroom anchor chart.
• At the end of the book, use the Complete the Flower Fill-In worksheet to review the parts of the flower.

Discourse

• Bring students back together and show them the Jump Into Writing worksheet. Model how to choose one of the observations or facts from the book and either draw a picture of or write a sentence about flowers.
• Have students turn and talk to a partner to share the fact or observation they are going to write or draw about. Pass out the vocabulary cards for students to use as reference.
• Pass out worksheets for students to complete independently.