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Hippos Are Huge

This document provides literature ideas for a book about hippos. It includes ideas for reading, writing, math, social studies, and other activities. Some key ideas are to write narratives or poems about hippos, research other animals to write informational books, use hippos for math problems involving addition and subtraction, and learn about hippos' habitat in Africa through map activities and block center play. The ideas cover skills in phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency and other subject areas.

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777 views

Hippos Are Huge

This document provides literature ideas for a book about hippos. It includes ideas for reading, writing, math, social studies, and other activities. Some key ideas are to write narratives or poems about hippos, research other animals to write informational books, use hippos for math problems involving addition and subtraction, and learn about hippos' habitat in Africa through map activities and block center play. The ideas cover skills in phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency and other subject areas.

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Jen Appler Myers
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Literature Ideas

Title: Hippos are Huge


Author: Honathan London
Fiction or Nonfiction: Nonfiction (Informational Picture Book)
Theme: Hippopatamus, Animals of Africa, huge animals

Reading Writing
Phonics/Phonemic Awareness:
letter h, short i sound Write your own narrative story about a
syllables in long words fictional hippo

Word Identification: Create a poem sharing facts about hippos


compound words
Research a new animals and write a similar
contractions nonfiction story (informational picture book)

Comprehension:
Compare this story to a fiction story about a
hippo
Creating a KWL about hippos
Create a hippos - “have, can, are” chart
Math
Text features of nonfiction book

Vocabulary: Use hippos as manipulatives to do basic math -


Closed sort using vocabulary in the story: add, subtract, count
Columns: Types of Hippos, Hippo Action, Hippos
are Hungry, Parts of the Hippo Story problems using hippos - time (elapsed),
multiplication, division
Using an index
Weight and capacity
Fluency:
Reading with exclaimation marks Sorting by size
Reading with question marks
Using size of print and text features for
expression

Social Studies/Science/Health Other

Learn about the habitat of a hippo Block center - create a zoo habitat and label
the parts using signs
Locate Africa on a map - discuss the culture
of the people in Africa Create a zoo dramatic play center with roles -
zookeeper, animal doctors, stuffed animals,
Endangered animals - how to help these etc…
animals

Sink or float science experiment

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