Designed
by:
Christi Jones and Jeanna Hoffman,
Satchel Ford Elementary School
1) Core Curriculum
Objective:
Recognize and use parts of books: title, subtitle, table of
contents and glossary.
(2-AR-3)
Grade level: Second
Subject: Language
Arts
2) Overview:
This activity is designed to be used after the
students have been familiarized with the parts of a book.
It can be adapted for use with any book that contains
a table of contents, title page, sub-title page and
glossary. In
this activity the teacher will review the parts of a book
using the second grade reading text, Window to the Sky. Students
will go on a scavenger hunt using the parts of a book to
locate information.
3)
Focus Question:
How can you find information using different parts of a
book?
4) Time Frame: 2
class periods (55 minutes each)
5)
Resources/ Materials: second
grade reading text: Window
to the Sky, Macmillan, 1995
drawing
paper (12”x18”)
pencils
Scavenger
Hunt list
http://www.yahooligans.com/content/tg/basil.html
http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/ScavTemp.html
http://www.kcw.org/scavenger_hunt.htm
http://www.phxaviation.com/skyharbr/kids/scavenger/index.html
http://www.essdack.org/tips/allaboutme.html
6)
Culminating Assessment:
Students will complete a scavenger hunt that requires them
to use the following parts of their reading book: Title,
subtitle, table of contents and glossary.
Teachers will check students’ answers using the
district grading scale.
Teacher will check for accuracy.
Each answer is worth 14 points.
7)
Instructional Activities:
Have students take out their Window
to the Sky books. Review
the parts of a book and list them on the board (i.e. title,
subtitle, table of contents and glossary). Ask the students
if they have ever been on a scavenger hunt. Let them share their experiences. Show the students the scavenger hunt web site
http://www.kcw.org/scavenger_hunt.htm
and use as a
tool to show them what is a scavenger hunt.
Pass
out drawing paper and have students fold it into eighths.
Instruct the students to write “Scavenger Hunt”
and their name in the top left box.
Have the students number the remaining boxes one
through seven.
Pass
out scavenger hunt list.
Complete the first item together to model how to fill
in the answer boxes. The
first question is about the glossary, “What grows in a
grove?”. Ask
the students which of the book parts listed on the board
could help them find the answer.
After the correct response is given, instruct the
students to write glossary at the top of the second box.
Have the students use the glossary to find the word
“grove”. Call
on someone to read the definition out loud.
Elicit an answer to the scavenger hunt question.
Students should write “trees” in the middle of
the second box .
Instruct
the students to complete the rest the of the scavenger hunt,
on their own. Collect
the students’ papers and grade them using the district’s
grading scale.
Extension:
Students will create their own scavenger hunts with
books. Students
need to be put in groups of four.
Let them choose their own groups.
Each group should choose a book for their scavenger
hunt. Together
the students need to decide on questions for the hunt and
write them on paper. Then
the groups can trade scavenger hunts and do each others’.
Put the scavenger hunts in a center for students to
do on their own.
These
web sites contain templates for teachers to construct their
own scavenger hunts: http://www.yahooligans.com/content/tg/basil.html
http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/ScavTemp.html
