ELD-Animals Descriptions 5 Objective: Students will be able to use taught forms of adjectives, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, and conjunctions to make comparisons and contrasts. vocabulary word: moribund

Our predictions for the word moribund

moribund adjective- approaching extinction; at the point of death. Sample sentence: There are some moribund mammals in the Pacific Ocean.

The grammatical forms we will use are adjectives, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, and conjunctions to make comparisons and contrasts.

Adjectives that might describe various animals gigantic vicious greedy territorial furry dirty timid friendly playful selective deadly reclusive miniscule melodious protective unpredictable

Various Physical Abilities of Animals (verbs) crawl jump slither squawk run eat walk sleeps kills attacks strikes defends defecates scratch shelter purr

Modifying Physical Attributes (adverbs) gracefully purposefully effortlessly cautiously stealthily recklessly swiftly hurriedly thoughtfully Carefully slowly quickly perfectly disgracefully protectively clumsily

Our Sentence Frames Question: What do two animals have in common and how are they different? Response: Both a______(animal name) and a _______ (animal name) feel/look/sound _________ (adjective). However, a _______(1st animal name) can __________ (physical ability-verb) ________ (adverb) while a ______ (2nd animal) can __________ (physical ability-verb) _______(adverb).  

Our Sample Response Sentence Frames Both a polar bear and a kangaroo look furry. However, a polar bear can crawl slowly while a kangaroo can jump quickly.

10 point bonus opportunity Use the five vocabulary words we learned in this unit to compare two different animals. endangered gait swarm evaluate extract