Literature Ideas

Title: Hippos are Huge

Author: Honathan London
Fiction or Nonfiction: Nonfiction (Informational Picture Book)
Theme: Hippopatamus, Animals of Africa, huge animals

Reading Writing
Phonics/Phonemic Awareness:
letter h, short i sound Write your own narrative story about a
syllables in long words fictional hippo

Word Identification: Create a poem sharing facts about hippos

compound words
Research a new animals and write a similar
contractions nonfiction story (informational picture book)

Comprehension:
Compare this story to a fiction story about a
hippo
Creating a KWL about hippos
Create a hippos - “have, can, are” chart
Math
Text features of nonfiction book

Vocabulary: Use hippos as manipulatives to do basic math -

Closed sort using vocabulary in the story: add, subtract, count
Columns: Types of Hippos, Hippo Action, Hippos
are Hungry, Parts of the Hippo Story problems using hippos - time (elapsed),
multiplication, division
Using an index
Weight and capacity
Fluency:
Reading with exclaimation marks Sorting by size
Reading with question marks
Using size of print and text features for
expression

Social Studies/Science/Health Other

Learn about the habitat of a hippo
Locate Africa on a map - discuss the culture
of the people in Africa
Endangered animals - how to help these
animals
Block center - create a zoo habitat and label
the parts using signs
Create a zoo dramatic play center with roles -
zookeeper, animal doctors, stuffed animals,
etc…

Sink or float science experiment