The Story of the Frog Belly Rat Bone

by Timothy Basil Ering

Students need one sheet of paper folded in 4ths. and a pencil/crayons
Cover the cover with a folder.
Read a few pages give the students 3 minutes to draw and color

Transition from visualize to inferring

~Use Creatures of the Earth, Sea, and Sky by Georgia Heard.
~Rewrite the words onto chart paper.
~ Fold or roll the paper up so only one line of the poem is exposed at a time.
~ Have the students try to guess what the animal is based on the evidence
~ Unroll the next line and ask them if the new information has changed their thinking?
~ Keep unrolling and discussing.

Visualize with evidence

Draw, highlight, and underline words that help you paint a picture