3rd Grade Language Arts Mary Ruebusch McCurdy School Little Turtle 3rd Grade Language Arts Mary Ruebusch McCurdy School Click for Teacher Pages

Teacher Page 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.

Teacher Page 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, 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. Click 5 times for answers mosquito 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. The end