Working with a book called `CRAZY LIKE A FOX, a simile history`.

Pre-reading Activity Lesson Plan

 

Name: Shirlley Kelly Cordeiro.

 

Content Objectives: Students will be able to make comparisons in a funny way: doing similes  and understand the idea of the best way to get something.

Language Objective: Students will be able to re-tell the story using comparative forms: like, as.

Learning Strategy Objective: Students will create a list of the most used  similes  our they can invent.

Activate Background Knowledge: Show students some pictures of different kinds of behavior: sleep a lot or snoring, run fast, tiptoe behind somebody, get angry, swim across a river, climb into a cave.  Create a large possibilities using as and like:  Sleep like a stone, run as a bird; as loud as a plane, as quick as a fox. Show the differences between these two structures.

Introduce new vocabulary: snore, still, snug, log, chain saw, busy, shooting star, buck, zip, meadow, wink, sneak, tricky, lamb, roar, mean. Show pictures of the vocabulary words, say them without the picture and have the students do the motion for the word.

Picture Walk: go through the pages observing what is in the pictures aloud, and asking students questions as the story unfolds: Oh, look, here is a fox on a forest. What is going on? It is sleeping.  Look the rats. What`s the problem? They are worried. What`s the problem? The fox is snoring aloud. Why the fox is running so fast? Is it going to eat the sheep? Why the sheep is chasing after fox? Have you ever done or receive that from someone? Why the fox did it? What would you do at her place? Is that a smart way to calls somebody attention or do a plane? Did it work? Would you do the same?