1. 3rd Grade Language Arts Mary Ruebusch McCurdy School
Little Turtle
3rd Grade Language Arts
Mary Ruebusch
McCurdy School
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2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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!

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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!

8. Make a web of the things that were snapped at by the turtle.
Answer
follows.

9. Web of the things that were snapped at by the turtle.
Click 5 times
for answers
mosquito
flea
Turtle me
minnow

10. Use your web to retell the poem.
Write a paragraph about
what happens in the poem.

11. What clues did you find in the poem to prove whether the turtle was a meat eater or a plant eater?

12. Label the animals in the poem--insect, mammal, reptile, or fish.

13. Explain why the turtle was able to catch some things and not others.

14. Was this poem fantasy or realistic?
Explain your answer.
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