Who Lives in the Forest?

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Read aloud the book Lost In The Woods: A Photographic FantasyBy Carl R. Sams & Jean Stoick
• Pause throughout the read aloud to notice the different animals.

Guided practise

• Create a classroom anchor chart to list the animals who live in the forest using a piece of chart paper.
• Have students brainstorm the animals they learned about from the read aloud to add to the anchor chart.
• Ask students to think about other animals that live in the forest to add to the chart.
• Demonstrate writing a sentence using the sentence stem, “The ____ lives in the forest.” using one of the animals from the anchor chart.
• As you write, model stretching out the beginning, middle, and ending sounds in the animal name as you spell it.

Independent working time

• Tell students that they will now get to choose one forest animal to draw a detailed picture of and to write a sentence using the sentence stem.
• Remind students to practise stretching out their animal name as they write it in their sentence.
• Pass out supplies to each student.