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Ideas and Extensions: With the Patricia Polacco Unit, you can integrate
various subjects. You can also extend them to benefit your AIG students
as well as modify them for your learning disabled and ESL students.
Math:
Thunder
Cake- you can refresh counting to ten and go over landmark numbers
using Patricia's counting the seconds between the lightning and thunder.
Science:
Thunder
Cake- discuss thunder and lightning and how each is formed. Discuss
the myth that goes along with counting from when you first see lightning.
Have them tell you what they have heard.
Rechenka's
Eggs- discuss the life the cycle of a duck and how they are laid
and then the process in which they hatch.
Just
Plain Fancy- discuss the life cycle of a chicken and then compare
the difference between a chicken and a peacock. What characteristics make
them different?
Meteor-
discuss meteors and how they came about. What causes them? How are they
formed? Why do they enter our atmosphere?
The
Bee Tree- discuss with the students how the bee makes honey and
their life cycle.
Art:
Chicken
Sunday- have the students paint their own Pysanky eggs that were
in the story. Have them be as creative as possible.
The
Keeping Quilt- have the class create a quilt that has their individual
squares sewn together. Have them write what the quilt means to them and
create a class book. Have the quilt be the cover of their class book.
Social
Studies:
Pink
and Say- discuss the Civil War and have the students complete a
KWL chart.
Modifications:
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Recorded
Audio Books for disabled readers
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Partner
peer tutors
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Incorporate
additional activites to keep students on task
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Read the
assigned sections aloud
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Use large
print books
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Individualized
instruction
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With each
job, decrease the number of tasks that you have each child do
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Have the
student do their task directily on the job worksheet that would be provided
by the teacher
ESL student:
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Echo reading
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Incorporate
their language into story and jobs where appropriate.
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Allow them
to work with a translator
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