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If you wish to use Two Bad Ants as a read aloud, I included several comprehension skill options. One skill may work better than another in your teaching timeline, but here’s a list you might consider: Analyzing the Story Elements; Character Change; Making Inferences; Sequencing Events; Author’s Craft; Text Evidence; Point of View
Apr 6, 2022 · Read about these two ants and try and figure out where this new place actually is. This is a great book to teach inferencing or point of view from the ants' perspectives. An amazing and...
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Description. Two Bad Ants. By Chris Van Allsburg. The discovery of a sweet, unidentified crystal marks the beginning of an exciting and dangerous adventure for two ants. Tell students that the ants in the story find sparking crystals. Explain that salt and sugar are made of crystals.
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This blog post is written in connection with 18 other reading teacher bloggers. Each post has a lesson and a freebie to match the mentor text chosen for their blog’s post. View the links at the bottom to check out many wonderful posts! In this post I will share how I use the text Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg to teach my students what it means...
Two Bad Ants is told from the point of view of two ants who stay behind in the sugar bowl instead of taking sugar back to their queen. The ants think the sugar bowl is the ultimate paradise for an ant, until morning comes and the human awakes and heads to the kitchen to make his morning cup of coffee. The ants are then thrown into a dangerous boili...
To first begin this new skill, I tell my students they will be reading like detectives. I tell them this means reading closely to notice things the author may not specifically tell them. Don’t forget that young readers are still new to the idea that “reading is thinking.” As their teachers, we have to help them understand how readers think about th...
Teaching inferencing with Two Bad Ants is a no brainer! The story is written in a way that leaves students guessing where the ants could be. When my students and I begin reading, I read the story aloud to them and I do not allow them to see the pictures. (This is a wonderful opportunity to review or introduce point of view.) I read the first few pa...
On the next day, I break my students up into groups (3-4 students) and have them read the next few pages to see if they can determine where the ants are. This is my favorite day. This is when I can really see their thinking come alive! I travel around the room, nudging each group when I notice they are stuck. We meet together at the end and I read ...
For me, teaching inferencing with Two Bad Ants is one of my favorite reading lessons of the year. I love how I can almost feel their brains buzzing. But, after my students finish reading the text, I do have them complete several comprehension activities. These include: reading response questions, character traits, a writing activity, and vocabulary...
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Students read the story Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg, work in pairs to analyze the illustrations and text, and compare and contrast points of view. After rereading the story, students apply their knowledge of point of view by writing a short story from an ant's perspective.
Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg. Two Bad Ants is perfect for introducing inference in an non-threatening way. For this lesson, I have the students infer what the ants are seeing or coming in contact with while they are in the kitchen of a house (while they are on a hunt for sugar crystals to bring back).
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In this lesson, I taught my students strategies they could use to make inferences about the meanings of words they didn't know in a text through the read aloud, Two Bad Ants. They then worked in groups of four to complete an activity sheet that allowed them to use several of the strategies they learned about.
