ELD-Animals Descriptions 5Objective: Students will be able to use taught forms of adjectives, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, and conjunctions to make comparisons and contrasts.

vocabulary word: moribund

Our predictions for the word moribund

moribund

adjective- approaching extinction; at the point of death.

Sample sentence:There are some moribund mammals in the Pacific Ocean.

The grammatical forms we will use are

adjectives, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, and conjunctions to make comparisons and contrasts.

Adjectives that might describe various animals

gigantic vicious greedy territorial

furry dirty timid friendly

playful selective deadly reclusive

miniscule melodious protective unpredictable

Various Physical Abilities of Animals (verbs)

crawl jump slither squawk

run eat walk sleeps

kills attacks strikes defends

defecates scratch shelter purr

Modifying Physical Attributes (adverbs)gracefully purposefully effortlessly cautiously

stealthily recklessly swiftly hurriedly

thoughtfully Carefully slowly quickly

perfectly disgracefully protectively clumsily

Our Sentence FramesQuestion:①What do two animals have in common and how

are they different?

Response:①Both a______(animal name) and a _______

(animal name) feel/look/sound _________ (adjective). However, a _______(1st animal name) can __________ (physical ability-verb) ________ (adverb) while a ______ (2nd animal) can __________ (physical ability-verb) _______(adverb).

Our Sample Response Sentence Frames

•Both a polar bear and a kangaroo look furry. However, a polar bear can crawl slowly while a kangaroo can jump quickly.

10 point bonus opportunity

• Use the five vocabulary words we learned in this unit to compare two different animals.

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