Smoosh+Book

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EXTINCT ANIMAL SMOOSH BOOKS - Students must create an imaginary animal using a piece of fruit or a vegetable. A great book for modeling possibilities for this is [|Vegetal como eres.] Students must then pretend that the animal is extinct. They use a graphic organizer to brainstorm the animal's habits--what it ate, where it lived, who its relatives and predators were, what its daily habits were and how it became extinct. I conference with each student individually regarding their uses of the preterit v. the imperfect. They must then extract ten polished sentences from their brainstorms and create a little illustrated book with them using paperfolding techniques to avoid the need for staples--hence the term "smoosh book." (Level II - Reinforces preterit v. imperfect) If you don't want to go to the trouble of having them create animals out of fruits and vegetables, you could use this great site online that lets students make animal "mashups": http://www.buildyourwildself.com/

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