Animals of the African Grasslands

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After readingBeing a meaning makerEncourage the children to supporttheir answers with evidence fromthe book as they discuss thesequestions:What is a plant-eater?How do plant-eaters work togetherto survive?What is a meat-eater?What is the difference betweenpredators and scavengers?Why do all the animals that live onthe African grasslands depend onplants to survive?Being a code breakerExplore the following languagefeatures:• Adjectives: big, coarse, flexible,great, long, powerful, short, tall,thick, top, wide• Plurals: animals, buffalo,cheetahs, elephants, grasslands,gazelles, kudu, leaves, leopards,shrubs, stems, trees, wildebeest,warthogsBeing a text userRefer back to the meat-eater/planteatersort that children did afterdiscussing the contents page. Invitechildren to change and addinformation.Are there other African animals wehave discovered from reading thisbook? Are they meat-eaters orplant-eaters?Do we need to make changes to ouroriginal animal sort? Why?Being a text criticTell me about the information inthe story that you were mostinterested in?Was there anything about this bookthat helped you to understand theinformation better? What was it?16
Responding to textThe children could complete aninformation retrieval chart basedon the book. Retrieval charts help tocategorise information and provide avisual summary of the text. The retrievalchart for this book could look like theone below.The children could complete apicture facts activity. Have thechildren re-read the conclusion togetherand draw a picture to represent eachpiece of information found in it. Thechildren could draw plants, a giraffeeating branches, a warthog eating roots, acheetah running after its prey and avulture eating a dead zebra.Animals of the African Grasslands byJames TaliaDiscuss what the children believean adjective to be. The childrencould work in pairs to find and highlightthe adjectives on a photocopied page ofthe book. Have the children share andjustify their choices with the class.What type of words are adjectives?What do adjectives do to a sentence?Writing linksLook at an enlarged photo of an Africananimal. Discuss its features and generatea list of adjectives to describe it. Thenmodel writing an interesting sentenceabout this animal using as manyadjectives as you can.Provide pictures of African animals. Thechildren could select one and write theirown sentences describing the uniquefeatures of that animal. Display thesentences with the picture.Animal Movement Food Meat/ plant eaters? What type ofmeat-eater/plant-eater?Gazelles Long muscular legs New shoots of Plant-eater GrazerCan travel long different plantsdistancesVulture Fly over the Dead animals Meat-eater ScavengergrasslandsPossible assessment focusCan the children:• explain the meaning of the scientific language used in the book?• provide examples of plant-eaters and meat-eaters?• identify adjectives used in the text?whole text activity sentence activity word activity
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