Learning about Habitats By Wanda McRae-Jones Turtle Bay Learning about Habitats By Wanda McRae-Jones

Georgia Performance Standards S3L1. Students will investigate the habitats of different organisms and the dependence of organisms on their habitat. ELAGSE3RL2: Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. ELAGSE3RL5: Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections. ELAGSE3RI2: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Can all animals and plants live in any part of Georgia? ENGAGE Can all animals and plants live in any part of Georgia?

W (What do we want to learn?) L (What have we learned?) K (What do we know?) W (What do we want to learn?) L (What have we learned?)

Explore and Explain Let’s read Turtle Bay by Saviour Pirotta

Follow-up Activities Whole Group/Small Group Teacher and students will complete a story map of the book with character, setting, and plot. Use web online source: www.readwritethink.org for story mapping online forms. Teacher and students will write an informational piece (whole group) about sea turtles. EXTEND As an extension, individual students can recreate a scene from the book and narrate it using Alice 2.4 programming.

Documentation of Resources www.georgiastandard.org 3rd Grade Habitats Framework https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Ys1CFfdtI (Turtle Bay by Saviour Pirotta)