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AND TANGO MAKES THREE activities and lesson plan ideas
AND TANGO MAKES THREE activities and lesson plan ideas
AND TANGO MAKES THREE activities and lesson plan ideas
AND TANGO MAKES THREE activities and lesson plan ideas
AND TANGO MAKES THREE activities and lesson plan ideas
AND TANGO MAKES THREE activities and lesson plan ideas
AND TANGO MAKES THREE activities and lesson plan ideas
AND TANGO MAKES THREE activities and lesson plan ideas
AND TANGO MAKES THREE activities and lesson plan ideas
AND TANGO MAKES THREE activities and lesson plan ideas
AND TANGO MAKES THREE activities and lesson plan ideas
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This AND TANGO MAKES THREE Activities and Interactive Read Aloud Resource Book Companion Packet includes lesson plans, reading comprehension questions, vocabulary, grammar, phonics, writing and word study activities with both printable and digital student pages.

Following an interactive read aloud of the picture book, AND TANGO MAKES THREE by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, choose from the included collection of either printable activities or go paperless and use the digital activities to practice standards-based skills. We've even included editable teaching slides themed to match the book!

 

THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:

 

◼️READING STRATEGIES

☐ MAKING INFERENCES

☐ COMPARING AND CONTRASTING

☐ ANALYZING CHARACTER

☐ AUTHOR'S PURPOSE

☐ IDENTIFYING THEME | MESSAGE | MORAL

 

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ NOUNS

☐ ACTION VERBS

☐ IRREGULAR VERBS

☐ ONOMATOPOEIA

 

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ CHANGING FAMILIES

 

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

The book And Tango Makes Three, tells the true story of a pair of male penguins living in the Central Park Zoo. Roy and Silo spend all of their time together. They swam together, walked together, and sang to each other. Roy and Silo were similar to the other penguin couples in many ways. However, unlike the other penguin couples, Roy and Silo did not have an egg of their own. Although they had built a nest together, they still did not have an egg to care for.

When Mr. Gramzay noticed this, he brought Roy and Silo an egg of their own! The two penguins cared for the egg just like the other penguin couples did. They took turns sitting on the egg while the other went for food. Eventually, the egg hatched into a penguin chick! Mr. Gramzay named the chick Tango. Roy and Silo took good care of Tango and she learned to swim just like the other young penguins. Visitors to the zoo loved watching Tango and her two fathers play!

This story teaches readers that although some families may look different, at the end of the day all families love and care for one another.

 

THIS COLLECTION OF ACTIVITIES and LESSON IDEAS INCLUDES:


➜ Comprehension Questions categorized by reading strategy; text-dependent
➜ Social Emotional Learning guidance lesson ideas & discussion topics based on the story
➜ Vocabulary Activities with kid-friendly definitions
➜ Grammar Topics selected to align with the text
➜ Focus Sentences use the book & author's craft as a mentor text to improve writing
➜ Lesson Planner summary, background info and planning space

➜ Story Mapping Printable identify character, setting, problem and solution

➜ Making Words Activity Page use any word from the book

➜ Focus Sentence copy work, identifying elements of the sentence, rewriting)

➜ Design a New Book Cover demonstrate understanding of the text by creating an illustration

➜ Predicting Activity primary-ruled and wider-ruled versions
➜ Summarizing Somebody → Wanted → But → Then → Finally

➜ Comparing and Contrasting using a Venn Diagram

➜ Cause and Effect analyze how events affect one another

➜ Visualization illustrate visualizations from the story and support thinking with text-based evidence

➜ Making Connections identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections

➜ Thematic Writing Paper Use with the Writing Prompts... Makes a Great Bulletin Board

➜ 2 Sequencing Activities First → Next → Then → Last and Beginning → Middle → End

➜ 2 Vocabulary Activities Vocabulary Booklet and Word Mapping

➜ 2 Character Trait Activities listing traits and supporting traits with text-based evidence
➜ 30 Text-Based Writing Prompts 3 prompts for each of the following types of writing:

  • narrative
  • persuasive / opinion
  • descriptive
  • expository / informative
  • creative / story writing
  • procedure / how-to
  • list making
  • letter / postcard writing
  • poem
  • book reviews

INCLUDED DIGITAL ACTIVITIES:

➜ 5 Teaching Slides to use for instruction (add questions, vocabulary, instructions, etc)

➜ 15 Student Pages for use in Google™️ Classroom or as editable files to create customized printables