OPEN COURT COLLECTIONS FOR YOUNG SCHOLARS
HOMES:Is This a House for Hermit  Crab?
Ms. Southard
Introduction
Standards
Objectives
Activities
Assessment
Results
Resources

 





























 
Introduction
The Homes unit in Open Court  should help the students consider: 
 

           Who builds homes and how do they do it? 
 

           What makes a home a good home? 
 

           What do homes look like  in  other  regions   and  countries? 
 

           Why do different types of people  live in different types of homes?
 
 

           Why do different types of animals live in different types of homes? 

Throughout the unit, the children will explore and discuss  both the common elements of all good homes and the reasons that  people and animals live in so many different types of homes.

Grade Level: First Grade
Anthology: Open Court Collections for Young Scholars, Book 2
Selection: Is This a House for Hermit Crab?

Student Lesson: http://ctap295.ctaponline.org/~southard/Student

Standards  Addressed
First Grade
LANGUAGE ARTS
2.0 Reading Comprehension

Structural Features of Informational Materials
       2.1 Identify text that uses sequence or other logical order.

Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
      2.2 Respond to who, what, when, where, and how questions.
        2.4 Use context to resolve word and sentence ambiguities 
      2.5 Confirm predictions using key words in the text
      2.7 Retell the central ideas of simple expository or narrative passages.

      3.0 Literary Response and Analysis
Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text

        3.1 Identify and describe the elements of plot, setting, and character(s)  in a story, as well as the story’s beginning, middle, and ending.
 
 

SCIENCE
Life Sciences
2. Plants and animals meet their needs in different ways. 

    As a basis for understanding this concept:
   a. Students know different plants and animals inhabit different kinds of     environments and have external features that help them thrive in different kinds of places.
 

Instructional Objectives
Students will identify the sequence of events 80% of the time.
Students will be able to identify the beginning, middle and end of the story 80% of the time.
 


Student Activities

Introductory Activities

Software: Ocean Express, 

                 part of the Imagination Express Series by Edmark
Video: Is This a House for Hermit Crab? 
        Reading Rainbow Program 98, 
           available fromGPN, P.O. 80699, Lincoln, NE 68501-0669
           800-228-4630
Listen to  the story: Is This a House for Hermit Crab?
 (Use Microsoft Reader or WillowSpeak to read story to students as they follow the text.)
Enabling Activities
Vocabulary 
(Link to visual examples such as Open Court Picture Libraries and other pictures)
    • hind leg
    • budge
    • beneath
    • clunked
    • driftwood
    • hollow
    • pair of eyes
    • shivered
    • scurried
    • fiddler crab
    • burrow
    • wriggled
    • gigantic
    • pebbles
    • swirled
    • whirled
    • sleeker
    • pricklepine fish
    • spine
    • steeple
    • scrambled
    • clamped
Observe live Hermit Crab. 

Virtual field trips to aquariums.
 


Assessment
The 36 Week  Open Court Assessment includes a Reading Comprehension selection for Is This a House for Hermit Crab?
 

Results
Assessment data not available.


Web Resources & Supplementary Materials

The Happy Hermit     The Happy Hermit
Caring for Hermit Crabs  Caring for Hermit Crabs
Hermit  Crabs  Sponges Hermit Crabs Sponges
 
 
 


Power Point Presentation: Is This a Home for Hermit Crab?
 
 
 

John Still Center,2250 John Still Drive, Sacramento, CA 95832
Jo Southard    jo@ns.net
Last Revised: 05/26/2001