Is That My Home?

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Read aloud the book Welcome to the Neighborwood by Shawn Sheehy
• Pause as you read to notice the different animal homes.

Guided Practice

• Using a piece of chart paper, create a classroom anchor chart to list the different kinds of homes of forest animals.
• Ask students to think about the different kinds of animal homes they learned about from the read aloud. Add them to the anchor chart.
• Have students think about other kinds of animals that live in the forest and where they live. Add these ideas to the class chart.
• Using one of the animals from the anchor chart, demonstrate writing a sentence using the sentence stem “The ____ lives in a ____.”
• Model stretching out beginning, middle, and ending sounds in the animal names and animals homes as you write them.

Independent working time

• Tell students that they will now choose one animal and its home. They will then draw a detailed picture and write a sentence using the sentence stem.
• Remind students to practice stretching out all of the sounds in their words as they write their sentences.
• Pass out supplies to each student.