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My View as an Ant

Give students a chance to experience a different point of view! This fANTastic lesson on narrative style turns young readers into characters of Chris Van Allsburg's Two Bad Ants.
Need extra help for EL students? Try the First- and Third-Person Point of View pre-lesson.
Grade
Third Grade
Subject
Reading & Writing
English Learner
English Learner Content
View aligned standards
RL.3.6
W.3.3.b
Need extra help for EL students? Try the First- and Third-Person Point of View pre-lesson.

Learning Objectives

  • Students will be able to identify characteristics of both first and third person narrative styles.
The adjustment to the whole group lesson is a modification to differentiate for children who are English learners.
EL adjustments

Introduction

(10 minutes)
My View as an AntFirst Person
  • Ask the class to share what they know about ants.
  • Display the cover of Two Bad Ants and ask students what they think the story will be about.
  • As they share their thoughts, have them talk about things on the front cover that may have led to their predictions.
  • Read aloud Two Bad Ants.

Beginning

  • Display an image of an ant. Ask questions, such as:
    • Where do ants live?
    • How do they survive?
    • When you see an ant or group of ants, what are they usually doing?*
  • Provide sentence stems to answer the discussion questions, such as "Ants live ________. They survive by ________. When I see ants, they are usually ________."

Intermediate

  • Provide student-friendly definitions and images during the read aloud of the following words: tunnel, scout, crystal, delicious, nest, journey, scoop, lake, crawl, tilt.
  • Identify the terms for items and situations in the book that the ants do not understand. For example, the brown lake is coffee.