Family Literacy Backpacks
Family fun and learning are promoted through take-home, theme-focused backpacks. Ideas for materials and activities which can be included in these great backpacks are provided.
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English/Language Arts Academic Standards
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- Reading Comprehension
Family Activities
- Family Fun Ideas
- Frog spreadsheet
- As you learn and gather information about frogs,
keep track of it in a spreadsheet.
- Get some tadpoles from a pond. Do a study to find the
best conditions for tadpole survival. See if you can watch
a tadpole change into a frog.
- If you have a camera, take pictures of different types
of frogs in your area. Try to identify the frogs. Try
to find out if there are any other amphibians in your
area besides frogs.
- Elaine and the Flying Frog Book Activities
- Make a frog kite and see if you can make it fly.
- Cook and eat some rice porridge for breakfast like Elaine
had for breakfast.
- With a friend or family member, play a game of leapfrog.
- Visit a creek to see if you can find a frog.
- The Big Wide-Mouthed Frog Book Activities
- Read the book together with friends, acting out the
story.
- Make stick puppets to use to tell the story to your
family.
- Draw a picture of two frogs, one with a wide mouth and
one with a narrow mouth.
- The Frog Prince Continued Book Activities
- Make a list of the other fairy tales you could find
in this story.
- Write your own story about a frog using your own favorite
fairy tale.
- Make a computer drawing of the frogs hopping away together.
- Write the moral of the story.
- Fabulous Frogs Book Activities
- Draw a picture of a frog that could be entered into
a frog beauty pageant.
- Write a story about two different kinds of frogs meeting
for the first time.
- Take a trip to a nature center or pond to see how many
kinds of frogs you can find.
- The Frog Book Activities
- Make a poster to influence others to help protect frogs·
Write a poem about a frog using croaking sounds.
- Try singing your poem as a song.
- Write a short play about an endangered frog. Ask some
friends to help you act it out.
- First Field Guide: Amphibians Book Activities
- Browse through the book to see which amphibians you
have actually seen.
- Write a description of an amphibian in the book. Have
a friend try to find your amphibian based on your description.
- Take the book with you when you go on a nature hike.
Try to identify what you see.
- The Frog File CDRom Activities
- Using the CD, investigate the mystery of the lack of
frogs. Listen to the zoologist.
- Use the sleuth tools to examine the water of Misty Lake.
- Go to documents to obtain additional information.
- Record your findings in the notebook.
- The Red-Eyed Tree Frog Puzzle Activities
- Put the puzzle together alone or with a friend.
- Tell a story about the frog on the puzzle.
- Draw and color a picture of a frog on paper or cardboard.
Cut the drawing into several pieces to create your own
frog puzzle.
Books to Include |
- Elaine and the Flying Frog
- by Heidi Chang - Ages 7-10
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- Fabulous Frogs
- by Linda Glaser - Ages 2-8
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- First Field Guide - Amphibians
- by Scholastic - all ages
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- First Field Guide/Amphibians
- by National Audubon Society
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- The Big Wide-Mouthed Frog
- by Ana Martin Larranaga - Ages 2-6
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- The Frog (Natural Acrobat)
- by Paul Starosta - Ages 7-11
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- The Frog Prince - Continued
- by John Scieszka - Primary
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Web Sites for Fun |
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List of Additional Resources |
| Puzzles & Games |
- Red-Eyed Tree Frog
- puzzle by Instructional Fair - Ages 3 & up
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| Computer Software |
- The Frog File CD/Guide
- by Videodiscovery , Inc.
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Resource Link
If you are thinking of creating a literacy backpack for frogs,
here are suggested resources you can include in your backpack: frogs resources.
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