Transcript Little Turtle: Summary

Little Turtle
3rd Grade Language Arts
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Mary Ruebusch
McCurdy School
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OBJECTIVE: The learner will use a
Graphic Organizer to remember and
retell a story. The learner will relate
science principles to the poem.
ACTIVITY: The students will read a poem
and remember and retell it using a web.
The class will write in journals and discuss
answers to questions about turtles.
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PROCEDURE:
1. Copy the poem either for the class or
on a transparency. (The next slide contains
the complete poem.)
2.Click through and read slides.
3. Students will make a web to remember
and retell the story.
4. Students will use a journal to answer
questions about the animals in the poem.
Little Turtle
by Vachel Lindsey
There was a little turtle
Who lived in a box.
He swam in the puddles
And he climbed on the rocks.
He snapped at a mosquito.
He snapped at a flea.
He snapped at a minnow,
And he snapped at me.
He caught the mosquito.
He caught the flea.
He caught the minnow,
But he didn’t catch me!
Little Turtle
by Vachel Lindsey
There was a little turtle
Who lived in a box.
He swam in the puddles
And he climbed on the rocks.
continue
He snapped at a mosquito.
He snapped at a flea.
He snapped at a minnow,
And he snapped at me.
continue
Minnow= a
small fish
He caught the mosquito.
He caught the flea.
He caught the minnow,
But he didn’t catch me!
Make a web of the things
that were snapped at by the
turtle.
Answer
follows.
Web of the things that were
snapped at by the turtle.
mosquito
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for answers
flea
Turtle
me
minnow
Use your web to retell
the poem.
Write a paragraph about
what happens in the poem.
What clues did you find
in the poem to prove
whether the turtle was a
meat eater or a plant
eater?
Label the animals in the
poem--insect, mammal,
reptile, or fish.
Explain why the turtle
was able to catch some
things and not others.
Was this poem fantasy or
realistic?
Explain your answer.
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