Thunder Birds: Nature's Flying Predators

Thunder Birds: Nature's Flying Predators by Jim Arnosky 

Before You Read: 

 Students will need a piece of colored paper and a pencil. Please follow these directions for folding the paper:
1. Tri-fold the paper (in thirds).
2.  While the paper is still tri-folded, fold it in half.
3. When you open the paper, you should have six boxes.

These directions are an example of _________ text.
 (Hint: What you have been studying for the last 2 weeks!)

Write the book's title and author in the first box. 

While You Read:

•  Listen for interesting facts about each type of predator birds. Write one interesting fact about the birds in each box.  
• Why did Jim Arnosky use fold-outs for this book? 

After You Read:

• What do you notice about Jim Arnosky's writing style? Is it boring? Why or why not? Does Expository writing have to be boring? How can you spice up your Expository writing like Jim Arnosky does?
• What is the author's purpose? How do you know that this is his purpose?

Teachers, in the example that I gave you, I only used 4 boxes for notes because I ran out of time when I did this lesson with 3rd grade. You can read the entire book and use all of the boxes, or you can  skip around like I did. 

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