Teacher's Resource - Nelson Education

Which of the animals below live in each habitat shown here
Some animals may live in more than one of the habitats.
Habitat: evergreen forest/mountain
snowshoe hare
wood duck
gopher
Canada jay
pronghorn antelope
NEL 43
Introducing Authors and Illustrators
The About the Authors/Illustrators feature boxes that accompany many of
the lessons in this Teacher’s Resource provide opportunities for you and
your students to get to know the people behind the Student Book
selections. In these boxes, you can read about the personal backgrounds
and professional practices of authors and illustrators and gain insight into
the creation of the stories and pictures in the Student Book.
In many of these boxes, authors and illustrators describe aspects of their
lives in their own words, creating a mix of standard biographical information
and interesting personal detail.
TALKING ABOUT A MEDIA TEXT
Guide students in describing and
thinking about the purpose and the
audience for “A Habitat Is a Home.”
Say:
• These two pages are
interesting. They aren’t all
words or all pictures. What
different kinds of things do
you see (title, three large
photographs of different scenes,
many small “cut out”
photographs, labels, short
sentences speaking directly to the
reader)
• Why do you think the pages
are set up this way (to make a
game or activity; something to do;
to involve students in the idea of
habitats, not just tell them about
habitats)
• Why was this a good way to
introduce us to the idea that a
habitat is a home (pictures help
us make connections; a game is
fun; gets us thinking)
• What other ways could you
introduce the idea that a
habitat is a home (a picture of
one habitat along with all the
many animals that live in the
habitat; an article explaining how
a habitat is a home)
Read-Aloud
Use the Read-Aloud “Our Natural
Homes” and the accompanying
questions in Transparencies for Teacher
Modelling to further students’
understanding of the concept of a
habitat and major habitat types. The
Read-Aloud also models the strategy
of visualizing while listening.
Learning about the varied career paths of authors and illustrators will
expose students to a variety of career possibilities.
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