Things with Wings

Things with Wings

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By Shelia Wright

​Read Aloud

Standard(s) and Indicator(s):

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​Literary

RL.MC.5.1 Ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions to demonstrate understanding of a text; use key details to make inferences and draw conclusions in texts heard or read. 

RL.MC.5.2 Make predictions using prior knowledge, pictures, illustrations, title, and information about author and illustrator.

RL.MC.7.1 Retell text, including beginning, middle, and end; use key details to determine the theme in a text heard or read. 

RL.MC.7.2 Read or listen closely to compare and contrast familiar texts and texts in author and genre studies

Informational

RI.MC.5.1 Ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions to demonstrate understanding of a text; use key details to make inferences and draw conclusions in texts heard or read. 

RI.MC.5.2 Make predictions using prior knowledge, pictures, illustrations, title, and information about author and illustrator.

RI.MC.7.1 Compare and contrast topics or ideas within a thematic or author study heard, read, or viewed.

Objectives:​

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​→ I can ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions to demonstrate understanding of text.

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​→ I can compare and contrast texts of the same genre.

Things with Wings

Next, let’s see some things with wings .

This is a puffin . He makes his home up north, not too far from the North Pole .

Look at those cute feet! But they are not just cute . The puffin’s feet help him swim .

Note, as well, his big bill . The puffin can use his bill to get fish .

Compare/Contrast Text

Puffins are born from eggs . The puffin mom and dad sit on their egg . The mom sits . Then the dad sits . In the end, the chick pops out of the shell . The mom and dad take care of the chick until it can care for itself . Look! That puffin has fish in her bill! She will feed those fish to her chick .

Compare/Contrast Text

In this next room, we have a finch . Unlike the puffin, the finch makes a home in woodlands . He can use his bill to snap up grass seeds for food .

I’m sad to tell you that the finch is getting to be quite rare . We are proud to have five of them here at the Green Fern Zoo .

Compare/Contrast Text

Multiple Choice

Where does the puffin make his home?

Multiple Choice

The puffins feet help him _____.

• swim

• sleep

• get a snack

Multiple Choice

A puffin uses its _____ to get fish.

Open Ended

Compare the puffin and the finch. How are they the same?

**Use a specific example from our story today.**

Open Ended

Do you think the title, Things with Wings, is a good title for this story? Why?