April 2024

Liam The Butterfly Helper

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Listen and Read

Extend the Lesson

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Fly, Butterfly!

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Skill-Building Sheets

Academic Standards

 

Reading Objective:

Children will meet Liam, a Michigan-based youth who works hard to help monarch butterflies.

 

Social and Life Skills:

social awareness

 

Social Studies Focus:

current events

 

ELA Skills:

key details, vocabulary, read a diagram, compare/contrast

 

Page 4 Skill:

read a life cycle

 

Vocabulary:

lepidopterist, native, pesticides

 

CCSS:

RI.2.1 key details; RI.2.2 identify the main topic; RI.2.4 determine meanings of words; RI.2.5 use text features; RI.2.7 read a diagram; RI.2.9 compare texts; RI.2.10 read informational texts; W.2.1 writing; SL.2.1 collaborative conversations; SL.2.3 ask and answer questions; L.2.2 letter writing

 

Lexile level:

520L