•
ATOS:
0.8
•
GRL:
D
•
LEXILE:
210L
•
CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS:
animals
•
WORD COUNT:
71
Skills to Teach
•
HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS:
a, but, he, him, his, in, is, it, jumps,
play, runs, the
•
CONTENT WORDS:
barn, clean, foal, grazes, hungry, legs,
mother, nurses, outside, spring, tired
•
PUNCTUATION:
periods, comma
•
WORD STUDY:
long /o/, spelled
oa
(
foal
);
r
-controlled vowels
(
barn
,
mother
,
nurses
); consonant cluster
cks
(
licks
); initial
s
-blends
sm
(
small
),
st
(
stands
),
spr
(
spring
),
str
(
stretches
)
•
TEXT TYPE:
factual recount
Before Reading Activities
• Read the title and give a simple statement of the main idea.
• Have students “walk” though the book and talk about what
they see in the pictures.
• Introduce new vocabulary by having students predict the first
letter and locate the word in the text.
• Discuss any unfamiliar concepts that are in the text.
After Reading Activities
Encourage children to talk about the different things a foal is
shown doing in the book. List the different behaviors, such as
nursing, running, and jumping, on the board and consider which
farm babies (piglets, chicks, calves, etc.) might do the same
things. Would a calf nurse? How about a chick? Following their
suggestions, write the animal’s name underneath the behavior.
TOOLS FOR TEACHERS
Tadpole Books are published by Jump!, 5357 Penn Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55419,
Copyright ©2018 Jump. International copyright reserved in all countries. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without
written permission from the publisher.
Editor:
Jenny Fretland VanVoorst
Designer:
Anna Peterson
Photo Credits:
Alamy: Sorge, 4–5; Slawik, C./juniors@wildlife, 8–9. Dreamstime: Rkpimages, 10–11. Getty: Life on White, cover.
Shutterstock: Eric Isselee, 1; MaxyM, 2–3; Steve Heap, 2–3; purplequeue, 6–7; mkant, 12–13; rokopix, 14–15.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Mayerling, Tim.
Title: Foals / by Tim Mayerling.
Description: Minneapolis, Minnesota: Jump!, Inc., 2017. | Series: Farm babies | Audience: Age 3–6. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017004271 (print) | LCCN 2017009094 (ebook) | ISBN 9781620317679 (hardcover: alk. paper) | ISBN 9781620317877 (pbk.) |
ISBN 9781624966149 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Foals—Juvenile literature. | Foals—Pictorial works—Juvenile literature. | Horses—Juvenile literature | Horses—
Pictorial works—Juvenile literature.
Classification: LCC SF302 .M2495 2017 (print) | LCC SF302 (ebook) | DDC 636.1/07—dc23
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