The Curious Garden

 

  Curious Garden, The

Day One: Activating Prior Knowledge, Building Knowledge (making connections, oral language focus)

• What do you think this story is about?
• Do you have a garden at home?
• What does a garden need to grow?
• Look at first page: what is missing? would you want to live here?

Day Two: Five Finger Retell

Day Three: Vocabulary Development

• curious
• surprising
• blossomed
• drizzly
• dreary
• stumbled
• lonely 
• patiently
• delicate
• ordinary
• restless
• interrupted
• mysteriously

Day Four: Higher Order Questioning (asking, discussing, reflecting - between the line questions)

• Why do you think it's important to have a garden?
• Who are the people on the last page?
• How do plants help us?
• Where would you rather live?
• How is Liam feeling? How do you know?

Extensions for Learning Centres or Opportunities to Engage with Writing:

• grow your own garden 
• make sketches of the school gardens
• connections to Earth Day
• Further Reading: The Last Tree in the City, Lorax, Butterfly Park