All About
Turkeys
written by Jim Arnosky
ISBN: 0-590-51515-2
Rookie Read-About
Science
Turkeys That Fly and Turkeys That Don't
0-516-06029-5
Another source of
turkey information:
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First I read the Rookie Read-About Science book, Turkeys That Fly and
Turkeys That Don't, to the children to build background. I only have
one copy of this book so at this point I just read it to the kids. We
then make a list on the board stating the differences between wild turkeys
and domestic turkeys.
THEN I do a picture
walk through the book, All About Turkeys. Read the first page of questions
that the author wrote:
Have you ever wondered
about turkeys?
Where are wild turkeys found and how do they live?
What do turkeys eat?
Where do they sleep?
How big can a wild turkey grow?
Then read the pages 2-4. Begin a "turkey facts" list on the board or
on chart paper. Have the students tell you facts. I then have the child
read where on the page they found the fact. This is too hard for my
2nd graders to read independently so I do this as a shared reading.
Continue reading
together gathering turkey facts. As a writing focus lesson afterwards
the children write one fact about turkeys and one untrue statement about
turkeys. Then the children make a class book called "fact or fiction
about turkeys." The kids love reading each others and trying to figure
out fact or fiction.
Another writing
extension is to have the kids make a turkey writing turkey facts on
the feathers.
