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Story
Mapping Lesson for
The Seed and the Giant Saguaro
(sequencing events in a story)
Circular plots are ideal for teaching the skill of sequencing events in
a story.
Here's a simple and fun lesson to use with students.
Materials needed: book The Seed and the Giant Saguaro
hula hoop, adhesive velcro, reproducible images.
Because The Seed and the Giant Saguaro has a circular plot (the
story ends back where it started), you can use a hula hoop and
cut-outs as a means to allow children to retell the story in sequence,
in a hands-on fashion. After sharing the story with children during a
read aloud, allow them to demonstrate their comprehension and sequencing
skills by retelling the events that occurred in the story, via placing
the events in proper order on the hula hoop, clock-wise!
Copy and cut out the images provided (links below). Place adhesive
velcro on the back of each image. Place adhesive velcro on the
hula hoop at approx. 12:00, 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00,
10:00 and 11:00.
The correct sequence of events are as follows:
1. Sagauro (12:00)
2. Fruit drops from saguaro (1:00)
3. Packrat finds fruit (3:00)
4. Snake finds packrat (5:00)
5. Roadrunner finds snake (7:00)
6. Coyote finds roadrunner (8:00)
7. Storm arrives (9:00)
8. Packrat drops fruit/seeds (10:00)
9. Seed grows to new saguaro (11:00)
Email me and I will send you the images for The Seed and the Giant Saguaro
to use with this lesson. Once they're copied, mount them onto tag
board and place adhesive velcro on the back>
-saguaro (copy twice)
-fruit (copy twice)
-packrat
-snake
-roadrunner
-coyote
-storm clouds
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Author
Websites with Curriculum Tie-ins
Hope Vestergaard
Susan Taylor
Brown
Toni Buzzeo
Uma
Krishnaswami
Educational Resources
International Reading Association
Green Teacher
Teacher
Planet
American
Library Association
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