Specific Criteria: Using Pictures to Understand Details of a Story

Write to Read Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? Author(s): Bill Martin Jr/ Eric Carle

Focus Trait: Ideas Focus Trait: Voice Specific Criteria: Reader Specific Criteria: Using interacts with the writer pictures to understand through characters details of a story In the story, each animal’s Before reading the story Polar unique “voice” is heard. Select Bear, Polar Bear, have the a few of the animals and have students describe some of the the students create the sound ideas represented within the they believe the animal is pictures. Make a list with making. Examples include: detailed descriptions about the . Lion roaring animals in the story. . Hippo snorting Exp. (Fat Blue Hippo or Long . Boa hissing Green Snake) . Elephant trumpeting . Walrus bellowing

Focus Trait: Organization Focus Trait: Word Choice Specific Criteria: Patterns of Specific Criteria: Expanding a story Knowledge of Vocabulary

In the story, each page After re- reading the story, continues the pattern of animals create a word web using the hearing different sounds. word, What do you Hear?. Go Extend the pattern of the story through the book to add the by asking the students to think different sounds that the about what other animal could animals hear. be heard in the story. You could use the words Have students draw a picture to provided to have the students show one thing the zookeeper add these sounds to the word heard and label/dictate what he web. heard. Talk about how all of these words are ways the animals make their sounds heard. Focus Trait: Sentence Fluency Specific Criteria: Sentence Structure Focus Trait: Conventions Specific Criteria: Punctuation After reading the book a few times, students should be Each animal is asked what he familiar with the pattern. heard. At the end of each sentence is a question mark. As Write the sentence on a a class look for the question sentence strip and have the mark on each page. Students class help to unscramble it. could come up to the book and Point out the sentence begins point out the question mark on with a capital letter and ends the page. (A big book is maybe with a period. easiest for this)

After finding the question marks on the page, have the class make up three questions they have about the animals in the story. Write the questions down on chart paper and make sure to point out how you put a question mark at the end of the sentence.