Grades: 1-6
*This is a book I wrote and a lesson I taught to first through sixth grade students at six different elementary schools as part of an afterschool program.
First, read and discuss the book I wrote about various ways that animals survive the winter.
Next, divide the students into two groups having them rotate through the following two activities.
The first activity is a card sort. The students have to recall the information from the book in order to sort the pictures of animals under the correct heading of how they survive the winter.
The second activity is a memory game. The students have to recall the information from the book in order to match the picture cards to the narrative description of how the animals survive the winter.
Adaptation: pair up below-level readers with above-level readers in order to complete the card games.
