Objectives: Build up the sense of what to learn.

Have a brief introduction of the reading skills in this

lesson.

Listening and Speaking 10%

12% Writing Learn to restate an idea.

Write steps of how a butterfly is born.

Foundational Skills 2%

Recognize the high frequency words I,

grow, know in the lyrics.

Language and Vocabulary 24%

52% Reading
1. Learn and use academic
1. Read and analyze the science article vocabulary words.
A Butterfly Is Born. 2. Apply and review the key words.
2. Analyze the article using a Main Idea
and Details Chart.

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 Objectives: Learn to restate an idea.
1. Ask the guidance questions. Have students answer them.
2. Have students focus on the pictures and talk about what they see.
3. Listen to the song. Have students talk about the main idea of the
Restate an Idea
Change and Grow song.
4. Teach and model how to restate an idea about the first stanza.
1. Review the high frequency
5. Have students work together to restate the second stanza. Then, use
Animals, animals the sentence frames to restate it in their own words.
words grow, I, know.
Answers for Reference:

IChange
read thatas they grow,
Animals, Animals 4. I read that animals change as they grow.
______________________. 2. Look at the pictures, what do
I think about what I read and how different animals change.
Change as Change as they grow
they grow.
______________________. you see?
Then I tell the main idea in my own words: As an animal
grows, it changes.
3. Listen to the song, what’s the
This is what I＋
This is what I heard. 5. I read that insects change as they grow.
I think about what I read and how different insects change.
main idea of the song?
heard. Then I tell the main idea in my own words: As an insect grows,
it changes.
(Click the player to play the song.)
This is what I know.
different 4. Restate the first stanza in your
This is what I know.
animals own words.
change
Insects, too, insects, too. Language Frames
• I read that____________.
Change as they grow,
=
Change as they grow.
• I think about __________.
I tell the main idea in my own • Then I tell the main idea in my
This words:
is what I heard. own words: _______.
This ______________________,
isAswhat I heard.
an animal grows (Click to show the answers.)
5. Restate the second stanza in
This is itwhat
changes
I know. your own words.
This ______________________.
is what I know.
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Objectives: Review and apply the words.
1. Read the word and the sample. Have students repeat after teacher.
2. Use visuals to explain the meaning of the word.
3. Ask questions. Have students use the word and the sentence frame to answer
it.

born
Sample:
This baby was born
yesterday.

When were you born?

I was born ______.

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 Objectives: Review and apply the words.
1. Read the word and the sample. Have students repeat after teacher.
2. Use visuals to explain the meaning of the word.
3. Ask questions. Have students use the word and the sentence frame to answer
it.

ring
attach
Sample:
You can attach keys to
a ring.
What will you attach on the
wall?
key I will attach ______on the
wall.

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Objectives: Review and apply the words.
1. Read the word and the sample. Have students repeat after teacher.
2. Use visuals to explain the meaning of the word.
3. Ask questions. Have students use the word and the sentence frames to
answer it.

color
Sample:
The color of the flower
is red.
Describe your favorite gift.
It is _______.
The color is _________.

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Objectives: Review and apply the words.
1. Read the word and the sample. Have students repeat after teacher.
2. Use visuals to explain the meaning of the word.
3. Ask questions. Have students use the word and the sentence frame to answer
it.

hard
Sample:
The rock feels hard.

Which objects feel hard?

________ feel(s) hard.

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Objectives: Review and apply the words.
1. Read the word and the sample. Have students repeat after teacher.
2. Use visuals to explain the meaning of the word.
3. Have students list something which is in sequence.

sequence
Sample:
The letters are in order,
or sequence.

List something which is in

sequence.

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 Objectives: Review and apply the key words.
1. Lead students to discuss how a caterpillar turns
into a butterfly.
Apply the Key Words
2. Review the key words in the Word Bank.
3. Model how to use the sentence frames. Then, have
1. caterpillar 1. What do you see in the
students use them.
diagram?
2. How does a caterpillar grow
caterpillar and change?
2.
Language Frames
butterfly egg First ______. Next _____.
Then _____. Finally _____.

3. chrysalis
Word Bank
pupa 4. Science Vocabulary
chrysalis butterfly, caterpillar, change,
chrysalis, insect, pupa
Academic Vocabulary
attach, born, color, hard,
sequence
butterfly

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 Objectives: Pre-read the story.
1. Have students talk about the title of the article.
2. Explain the genre.

A Butterfly 3. Have students talk about the author of the article.

4. Have students use visuals to answer what is on the cover.
5. Have students talk about what they will learn about the
article. Concepts of Print
Is Born 1. What is the title of the
by Fran Downey nonfiction?
2. Who is the author?
Genre
By Mariana Fuentes
3. A science article is
nonfiction. It tells about
things that are real.
Use Visuals
4. What is on the cover?

Preview and Predict

5. What do you think this
article will be about?

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 Objectives: Comprehend the science article: A Butterfly Is Born.
1. Have Ss read the article and observe the photos and captions.
2. Have Ss talk about what the butterfly lays.
Use Visuals
A Butterfly Is Born 3. Have Ss talk about what will come out when the butterfly egg hatches.
Answers for Reference:
4. This article is about butterfly. 1. What do the labels tell us?
Main Idea: 2. What does the
5. It will eat worms./It will eat leaves./It will eat flowers.

butterfly lay?

butterfly
Details: Identify Details
A caterpillar hatches from an egg.
3. What will come out when
Details: egg the butterfly egg hatches?

Details: Confirm Predictions

4. What do you think this
Details: article will be about?

Make Predictions
Details:
A butterfly sits on a A butterfly egg is small. 5. What will the
plant. She lays an isegg. It will hatch soon. Then a caterpillar eat?
This
Details: my family.
caterpillar will come out.
1 2 (Click to show the answers.)

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 Objectives: Comprehend the science article: A Butterfly Is Born.
1. Have Ss read the article and observe the photos and captions.
2. Have Ss confirm the predictions.
Use Visuals
3. Have Ss talk about why the caterpillar eats the plant.
A Butterfly Is Born 4. Have Ss answer the question about where the caterpillar hangs.
1. What
5. Have Ss answer the question about what do the
the caterpillar labels
makes. tell
6. Have Ss find the important information
us?on page four.
Main Idea:
Confirm Predictions
caterpillar 2. What will the
Details: caterpillar eat?
A caterpillar hatches from an egg.
caterpillar Determine Cause and Effect
Details: 3. What causes the
A caterpillar hangs from a plant. caterpillar to eat the plant?
Details:
A caterpillar makes a chrysalis. chrysalis Identify Details
Details: 4. Where does the
The caterpillar makes a chrysalis. caterpillar hang?
5. What does it make?
Details:
The caterpillar is hungry. It The caterpillar changes. Determine Importance
eats the plant. Theis my family.
This It hangs from a plant. It 6. What is the most
Details:
caterpillar grows. makes a chrysalis. important information
3 4 on page four?
(Click to show the answers.)
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 Objectives: Comprehend the science article: A Butterfly Is Born.
1. Have Ss read the article and observe the photos and captions.
2. Have Ss talk about what the caterpillar changes.
3. Have Ss talk about what the pupa changes.
A Butterfly Is Born 4. Have Ss identify main idea on the two pages.
5. Have Ss find two important details to support the main idea.
Identify Details
Main Idea:
1. Where does the
caterpillar stay?
2. How does the caterpillar
Details:
change?
A caterpillar hatches from an egg. 3. What does the pupa
Details: turn into?
A caterpillar hangs from a plant. pupa Identify Main Idea and Details
chrysalis
Details: 4. What’s the main idea on
A caterpillar makes a chrysalis. the two pages?
5. What are two important
Details:
The caterpillar changes shape and
details to support the main
forms in the turns
A caterpillar chrysalis.
into a pupa.
idea?
The caterpillar Details:
stays in the
A pupa The pupa grows wings. It is a
turns into a2butterfly.
chrysalis. TheThis
caterpillar
is my family. butterfly now. It comes out of
1 Details:
turns into a pupa. the chrysalis.
5 6
(Click to show the answers.)
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 Objectives: Comprehend the science article: A Butterfly Is Born.
1. Have Ss identify main idea and details on page seven.
2. Have Ss identify main idea and details on pageIdentify Main
eight, then Idea
guide and
them to Details

A Butterfly Is Born fill in the chart.

3. Have Ss identify the main idea of the article.1. On page seven, what’s
4. Have students draw conclusions about why the butterfly is tired.
5. Have Ss talk about their experiences with the the main idea?
butterfly.
Main Idea: Answers for Reference: What are the details to
chrysalis A caterpillar changes into a butterfly. 4. It had to work hard to grow and get out of the chrysalis.
5. I have ever caught a butterfly with my friends. support
The butterflythe main idea?
is so beautiful.
2. On page eight, what
Details: does the butterfly do?
butterfly A caterpillar hatches from an egg. 3. What’s the main idea of
Details: the article?
wet wings Make Inferences
A caterpillar hangs from a plant.
Details: 4. Think about what you
know and what you read
A caterpillar makes a chrysalis. in the text. Why do you
Details: think the butterfly is
A caterpillar turns into a pupa. tired?
Details: Make Connections
The butterfly is tired. Itsturns into a butterfly.
A pupa The butterfly flies away.  5. Have you ever caught a
1 2
wings are wet.This
It rests
is my
Details: and
family. butterfly? Share your
experience.
dries. A butterfly flies away.
8
7
(Click to show the answers.)
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 Objectives: Learn to read with phrasing.
1. Have students read the sentences fluently.
2. Explain the meaning of phrasing. Have students
listen to the audio.
3. Have students practice reading with phrasing.

Read with Phrasing

1. Read the sentences correctly.
2. Listen to the audio,
explain when to make a short
stop.
(Click the player to play the audio)
(Phrasing: Fluent readers make
The butterfly is tired. a short stop and take a small
Its wings are wet. breath when they see a period. )
3. Read the sentences again. This
It rests and dries. time, read with a short stop at
the end of the sentence.
The butterfly flies away.

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 Objectives: Comprehend the science article: A Butterfly Is Born.
1. Have Ss talk about the title of the diagram.
2. Have Ss talk about the main idea of the diagram.

A Butterfly 3. Have Ss talk about the function of the numbers.

4. Have Ss restate how a butterfly grows up.
Answers for Reference:
Grows Up 2. How a caterpillar turns into a butterfly.
3. The order of events in a butterfly’s life.

Use Text Features: Diagram

1. What is the title of this
diagram?
2. What does this diagram
show?
3. What do the numbers tell
you?
Restate an Idea
4. Use your own words to
tell how a butterfly grows
up.

(Click to show the answers.)

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 Objectives: Make conclusions of what we learned from the article.
1. Have students answer the questions. Guide them to use the information
in the main idea and details Chart.
2. Have students talk about the life circle of a butterfly.
A Butterfly Is Born
Click different tags to show the question. 3. Have each student choose one topic to answer.
Answers for reference:
3. It is a hard time for a butterfly coming out from the eggs. I will not catch
Main Idea: them to play.

A caterpillar changes
Answers: Make Conclusions
Why into
doesathe
butterfly.
diagram, “A Butterfly Grows4. 1) It makes a circle to show how a butterfly is born.
2) The caterpillar makes a chrysalis.
Topic 1Details: Up,” make a circle? 3) After the pupa grows wings, it is a butterfly now.
1. What’s the main idea of the
A caterpillar It
hatches
makesfrom an to
a circle egg.
show_______. article?
Details: 2. What’s the life circle of a
A caterpillar hangs butterfly?
Whatfrom
doesathe
plant.
caterpillar make to 3. What do you think of the
Topic 2Details: hang from a leaf? butterfly’s life?
A caterpillar makes a chrysalis.
The caterpillar makes a ______. 4. Choose one of the three topics,
Details: organize your ideas to answer the
A caterpillar turns into a pupa. question.
What happens after the pupa
Details: (Click to show the topics.)
Topic 3A pupa turns grows wings?
into a butterfly.
After the pupa grows wings,
Details: it__________.
A butterfly flies away.
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 Objectives: Learn to write steps of how a butterfly is born.
Write Steps of How a Butterfly Is
1. Have students review the article to check whether the sequence
is right.

A Butterfly Born
2. Have students answer the questions.
3. Model how to use the key words from the word bank to
describe how a butterfly is born.
Grows Up How a Butterfly Is Born 1. What does a butterfly do first?
4. Have students use them to describe the life circle of a butterfly
together.
A butterfly_____________.
11 2. Where does the caterpillar
caterpillar
The ___________ hatch?
starts as an egg. 2 The caterpillar __________.
2
7 A ______ hatches 3. What does the pupa turn into?
7The butterfly from the egg.
flies away. The pupa______________.
Is the sequence right?
6 6 3
3
Word Bank

×
The pupa The ______ hangs
turns into a 5 from a plant. caterpillar, butterfly,
butterfly. The caterpillar 4 The
5 insect, change, pupa,
turns into 4 caterpillar
a_____. makes a chrysalis, born, color,
_____. sequence

(Click to show the answers.) 5

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 Objectives: Explain the online exercise.
1. Explain the online exercise to students.
2. Remind students to shoot and post their writings.

• Online Exercise

• My Writing Journal Lesson 5