Transcript Document 7241139

The Tiny Seed
Designed By Jenn Silva
RDG 589
Materials Needed
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The Tiny Seed book by Eric Carle
Pencils
Crayons
One computer per student
What plants need to live (worksheet 1)
The Tiny Seed worksheet (worksheet 2)
How-To booklet (beyond reading activity)
Introduction
Have you ever wondered how a plant
can grow from a tiny seed?
Click on the flower below to learn
about the lifecycle of a plant.
Picture from www.amazon.com
Before Reading
Before you read The Tiny
Seed with your partner, take
a picture walk with your
partner. Discuss and make
predictions about what might
happen to the tiny seed.
During Reading
What do you think a seed
needs in order to be able to
grow?
Click on the garden to print
and fill out the activity
worksheet.
After Reading
Now that you have read The Tiny Seed by Eric
Carle, you learned about things that helped
the tiny seed grow and things that hurt the
tiny seed. Click on the sunflower below to
complete a story recall activity.
Beyond Reading
Now that you have learned all about
planting, create your own “How-To” plant a
seed book like we have been learning about
in Writer’s Workshop. Be sure to include all
the important things that a plant needs to
grow.
Click on the gardener to print out the
“How-to” paper.
Rubric
Student’s task
Score 1
Score 2
Score 3
What Do
Plants Need
to Live?
Worksheet
You thought
of one thing
that plants
need to live.
You thought
of two-three
things that
plants need to
live.
You thought
of four things
that plants
need to live.
Tiny Seed
Story Recall
Worksheet
You correctly
recalled two
things from
the story.
You correctly
recalled four
to six things
from the
story.
You correctly
recalled eight
things from
the story.
Creating a
How-To
booklet
You included
one correct
stage of howto plant a
seed.
You included
two to three
stages of
how-to plant a
seed.
You included
all stages of
how-to plant a
seed.
More Books by Eric Carle
Did you enjoy reading The Tiny Seed
by Eric Carle?
Visit Eric Carle’s website to learn
more about some other books that
were written by him
Click on any of the books to get information about them on
Eric Carle’s website
Pictures borrowed from Eric Carle’s website: www.eric-carle.com