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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Safari

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Use Safari by Gail Tuchman to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Transport early readers to the African wild to learn all about the animals they might encounter on a safari! This nonfiction text by Gail Tuchman provides an engaging backdrop for students to build comprehension using the features of nonfiction text and skills such as making predictions and inferences, identifying the author's purpose, understanding text structure, and synthesizing. The simple, repetitive text is supported by full color photographs making it an ideal anchor text.
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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Safari

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Safari

As readers begin to explore nonfiction texts like Gail Tuchman's Safari, it is helpful for them to begin thinking about why the author may have included certain features. This identifying the author's purpose mini lesson helps students begin to think about the important role of vocabulary words, photographs, and a summary.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • SL.1.5RI.1.3W.1.5RI.1.5W.1.8RI.1.7L.1.6RI.1.8RI.1.10RF.1.1RF.1.2SL.1.1bSL.1.2RI.1.1SL.1.3RI.1.2
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.7B1.10C1.7C1.10E1.7D1.13D1.7E1.13E1.1A1.7F1.1C1.8A1.1D1.9D(i)1.6A1.9D(ii)1.6E1.9D(iii)1.6G1.10A1.6I1.10B
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Making Inferences with Safari

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Making Inferences with Safari

Because Safari by Gail Tuchman shares much information through detailed photographs, it is a wonderful anchor text for teaching readers how to infer information not based on text. This complete mini lesson guides early readers through how to use the photographs to make logical inferences.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RI.1.7RI.1.10RF.1.1RF.1.2SL.1.1bSL.1.2SL.1.3SL.1.5RI.1.1W.1.5RI.1.3W.1.8RI.1.4L.1.6
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.1A1.7F1.1C1.9D(i)1.1D1.9D(ii)1.6A1.9D(iii)1.6E1.10E1.6F1.13D1.6I1.13E1.7B1.7C1.7D1.7E
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Making Predictions with Safari

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Making Predictions with Safari

Thinking about what might happen next, and then checking your thinking is a breeze with Gail Tuchman's Safari and this making predictions mini lesson. Readers will be able to use both the text and photographs to formulate and evaluate their predictions.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RI.1.1SL.1.5RI.1.3W.1.5RI.1.5W.1.8RI.1.6L.1.6RI.1.7RI.1.10RF.1.1RF.1.2SL.1.1bSL.1.2SL.1.3
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.10E1.7B1.13D1.7C1.13E1.7D1.7E1.1A1.7F1.1C1.9D(i)1.1D1.9D(ii)1.6A1.9D(iii)1.6C1.10B1.6E1.10C1.6I
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Synthesizing with Safari

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Synthesizing with Safari

Students who use both the text and photographs when reading a nonfiction text better understand the material. Get students primed for using all the features of nonfiction text to evaluate how their thinking has grown or changed with this synthesizing mini lesson and Safari by Gail Tuchman.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RI.1.8RI.1.10RF.1.1RF.1.2SL.1.1bSL.1.2RI.1.1SL.1.3RI.1.2W.1.5RI.1.3W.1.8RI.1.5L.1.6RI.1.7
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.7B1.9D(iii)1.1C1.7C1.13D1.1D1.7D1.13E1.6A1.7E1.6B1.7F1.6E1.8A1.6F1.8B1.6G1.8C1.6H1.9C1.6I1.9D(i)1.7A1.9D(ii)1.1A
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Understanding Text Structure with Safari

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Understanding Text Structure with Safari

Gail Tuchman's Safari introduces students to the use of description, compare and contrast, problem and solution, and sequencing text structures in a nonfiction text. This focused mini lesson shows students where to pause and reflect on the text structure when reading to improve their comprehension of the material.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RI.1.10RF.1.1RF.1.2SL.1.1bSL.1.2SL.1.3RI.1.1SL.1.5RI.1.3W.1.5RI.1.4W.1.8RI.1.7L.1.6RI.1.8
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.1A1.7E1.13E1.1C1.7F1.1D1.8A1.6A1.9D(i)1.6D1.9D(ii)1.6E1.9D(iii)1.6G1.10B1.6I1.10C1.7B1.10D1.7C1.10E1.7D1.13D
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Vowels with Safari

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Vowels with Safari

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Safari by Gail Tuchman as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how short i and e vowel sounds are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with vowels.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RF.1.3RF.1.4
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Vocabulary Connections with Safari

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Vocabulary Connections with Safari

This set of vocabulary development resources for Safari highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • L.1.6L.1.4aL.1.5c
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.7F1.3A1.3B1.3C1.3D
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Running Record with Safari

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Running Record with Safari

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Safari. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

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Retelling and Summarizing with Safari

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Retelling and Summarizing with Safari

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.
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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Safari (Spanish)

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Making Inferences with Safari (Spanish)

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Making Predictions with Safari (Spanish)

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Synthesizing with Safari (Spanish)

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Understanding Text Structure with Safari (Spanish)

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Retelling and Summarizing with Safari (Spanish)

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Title: Safari
Author: Gail Tuchman
Genre: Nonfiction
Themes: Adventure, Animals & Insects
ISBN: 9781426306143
Publisher's Summary:
Safari day dawns on the savanna. The African light gives the sky colors seen nowhere else on Earth. Soon, an amazing array of wild animals are yawning, screeching, and growling to life. Meet the elephants, lions, giraffes, zebras, hippos, and the laughing hyenas of the wilderness and find out who's friends with whom and why!
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