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BOOK EXTENSION ACTIVITY - LESSON PLAN

Your Name: Carol-Rose Urrea

Genre of the Book: Nonfiction / Informational
Book Title: What If You Had Animal Teeth?
Author: Sandra Markle
Publisher: Scholastic Inc. Date: 2012

1. Pre-K/ CCSD K-2nd Grade/Nevada Core Standards:

• 4.PK.5a - Recall information from an event, text, or picture related to self and the world
around them.

2. Objectives:
SWBAT + Bloom’s verb
• SWBAT explain why they chose the animal teeth they did and they will describe how
those animal teeth will help them.
• SWBAT write in complete sentences to display their opinions.
3. Materials/Equipment:
• What If You Had Animal Teeth?, construction paper (blank/copy paper), animal teeth
template, markers, crayons, and colored pencils
4. Teaching:

A. Plan for reading the book:

• Before I read What If You Had Animal Teeth?, I will have a class discussion about how
different animals meet their needs in different ways. While they all have the same needs
(food, water, shelter, etc.) they meet them in different ways. We will come up with
examples of how animals meet their needs.
• I will introduce What If You Had Animal Teeth? and tell the class that we are going to
create pictures of ourselves with the animal teeth from the book.
B. Plan for extension activity:
• After I’m done reading, students will be given templates to create a picture of
themselves with animal teeth. I will show them an example of how this is done.
• Students will choose an animal from the book and explain why they chose that
animals teeth.
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• Once they have picked their animal and gave their explanation, they will draw a
picture of themselves with the teeth they have chosen.

5. Closure:
• Following this activity, we would brainstorm other ways animals are built differently
from one another that aids them in meeting their needs.
• I would introduce the concept of adaptation. Animals have certain body parts or
adaptations that help them survive and thrive in their own environment.