Description
FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS DESERT ANIMALS LIBRARY STORYTIME
- Recommended for: Grades K-2
- Lesson Duration: 1-2 elementary library lessons (about 50 minutes total)
- Formats: PPT or Google Slides; PDF
- Editable: YES, all text is editable
***Please note that this presentation is designed to complement a read-aloud. The actual read-aloud story comes from you! I cannot include a recorded read-aloud due to copyright restrictions.
THIS DESERT ANIMALS LIBRARY STORYTIME INCLUDES
- 52-slide PPT + Google™ Slides presentation
- List of 21 desert-themed recommended reads (1 page PPT and PDF, editable — great to send home to parents or give to teachers)
- 2 differentiated Scavenger Hunt activities (2 pages, edit in PPT or PDF)
- Prep, set up, tips (7 pages, PDF)
- Detailed, pre-filled, editable lesson plan; includes CC, TEKS, and AASL Standards (2 pages, PDF and PPT)
- Google™ Classroom Basics (4 pages, PDF)
- Instructions on how to set up scrolling slideshow timings in PPT and Google Slides
DESERT ANIMALS LIBRARY STORYTIME – PART I
Part I is a whole-class library discussion and read-aloud. The slides will walk you through the discussion from start to finish.
Remember that the read-aloud must come from you. I am not able to include a read-aloud due to copyright restrictions on published books.
- original desert poem
- “hot” and “fox” in American Sign Language
- characteristics of deserts
- polar deserts and hot deserts
- plants and animals that live in deserts
- animal adaptations to desert life (jackrabbit, sidewinder)
- plant adaptations (saguaro cactus)
- Storytime slide – add the cover of your read-aloud to introduce it to students
- Reminders for checkout (you can fill in your own reminders)
- “What should we do now?” slide (this is three things your students should do after checkout – edit to add your own directions for students)
DESERT ANIMALS LIBRARY STORYTIME – PART II
Part II is a scrolling slideshow (slide timer instructions included). As students checkout, they can work on one of the two differentiated scavenger hunt activities that go with the slideshow.
- ASL sign language – “hot” and “fox”
- ASL fingerspelling – “arid” and “dry”
- Word of the week: dune
- Word of the week: arid
- trivia question + answers
- 2 desert idioms – “bury one’s head in the sand” and “find a needle in a sand dune”
- 2 would-you-rathers
- desert career – archaeologist
DESERT VOCABULARY WORDS
- nocturnal
- polar desert
- arid
- adaptation
- predator
- dune
- Bactrian camel
- dromedary camel
FEATURED DESERT ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS
- large ears
- nocturnal
- burrowing
- camouflage skin
- long legs
- sidewinding
- fat storage (camel)
- tough skin
FEATURED DESERT PLANT ADAPTATIONS
- sharp spines
- waxy skins
- large root systems
- thick trunks
FEATURED AND MENTIONED DESERT ANIMALS
- camel
- fennec fox
- scorpion
- tarantula
- sidewinder
- kangaroo rat
- horned lizard
- Gila monster
- jackrabbit
- jerboa
- penguin
- meerkats
FEATURED AND MENTIONED DESERT PLANTS
- saguaro cactus
- Joshua tree
- prickly pear cactus
- yucca
FEATURED OR MENTIONED PLACES
- Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia)
- Antarctic Desert
- Vinson Massif (Antarctica)
- Sahara Desert
DESERT ANIMALS LIBRARY STORYTIME – PART III
Part III is a section of review questions. They are open-ended questions that make great time-fillers or help control potential chaos that sometimes happens at line-up or while waiting for teachers to pick up students from Specials.
This part includes 5 editable questions + ASL fingerspelling practice. All the questions are answered in the presentation, but students can also make up additional answers for some questions.
DESERT ANIMALS LIBRARY STORYTIME SCAVENGER HUNT
- differentiated (one is images-only; one is images + text)
- 2 pages, PDF
- Scavenger Hunt #1 is an images-only hunt. Students can complete this scavenger hunt without reading the text on the slides.
- Scavenger Hunt #2 includes both images and text. This one is for the students who are able to read the Part II slideshow. This scavenger hunt includes images and questions about the information in the slideshow.
- Scavenger Hunt #2 includes answer key
LIST OF RECOMMENDED READS
- picture books for PreK-Grade 2
- all are themed for deserts, desert animals, and desert plants
- includes fiction picture books and nonfiction picture books
- total of 21 titles
- includes a small image from the presentation
- titles are editable, so you can customize the titles for your library
- All titles were hand-selected by a veteran school librarian for quality, diversity, positive reviews, and currency.
- Every book on the list received at least two positive reviews on Titlewave. Most (if not all) also received starred reviews.
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