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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Two Bad Ants

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Use Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Sugar. Who can resist it? Certainly not ants! When two ants leave their colony to live in a bowl of sugar, they find themselves caught in frightening circumstances. Children will make predictions and ask questions while the two bad ants struggle to survive in their new environment.
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Asking Questions with Two Bad Ants

Two Bad Ants is an ideal springboard for teaching readers how to ask questions while reading. With it's playful illustrations and use of perspective, your students will easily form questions to clarify their understanding of the text and look forward to discovering surprising answers.
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RL.3.1,RL.3.3,RL.3.4,RL.3.10,RF.3.3,RF.3.4,SL.3.1c,SL.3.1d,SL.3.2,SL.3.3,W.3.8,L.3.6
TEKS Alignment
3.7D,3.13H,3.13E,3.13A,3.9C,3.8C,3.7G,3.7F,3.7E,3.1A,3.7C,3.7B,3.6I,3.6B,3.6A,3.1E,3.1D,3.1C
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Making Connections with Two Bad Ants

Students will have fun drawing upon their prior knowledge to make sense of the ants' adventure. Help make connections between the illustrations and their own sense of what an ant might find in a kitchen. Then show students how making connections can help you engage with books in lots of fun ways.
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RL.3.1,RL.3.3,RL.3.10,RF.3.3,RF.3.4,SL.3.1d,SL.3.2,SL.3.3,W.3.8,L.3.6
TEKS Alignment
3.7C,3.13H,3.13E,3.13C,3.8C,3.7G,3.7F,3.7E,3.7D,3.1A,3.7B,3.7A,3.6I,3.6E,3.6A,3.1E,3.1D,3.1C
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Making Inferences with Two Bad Ants

Two Bad Ants is a must read anchor text for teaching readers how to make inferences. The suspenseful story and clever illustrations provide readers with dozens of opportunities to infer the setting, plot, and to support inferences with evidence from the text.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.3.1,RL.3.4,RL.3.7,RF.3.3,RF.3.4,SL.3.1d,SL.3.2,SL.3.3,W.3.8,L.3.6
TEKS Alignment
3.7B,3.13H,3.13E,3.13C,3.8C,3.7G,3.7F,3.7E,3.7D,3.7C,3.1A,3.7A,3.6I,3.6F,3.6B,3.6A,3.1E,3.1D,3.1C
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Making Predictions with Two Bad Ants

Chris Van Allsburg's imaginative tale of two bad ants who've escaped their colony for a day of adventure practically begs readers to make predictions. Show readers how to use clues in the text and the illustrations to anticipate what will happen in the story.
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RL.3.1,RL.3.2,RL.3.3,RL.3.10,RF.3.3,RF.3.4,SL.3.1d,SL.3.2,SL.3.3,W.3.8,L.3.6
TEKS Alignment
3.7B,3.13H,3.13E,3.13C,3.8C,3.7G,3.7F,3.7E,3.7D,3.7C,3.1A,3.7A,3.6I,3.6C,3.6B,3.6A,3.1E,3.1D,3.1C
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Retelling & Summarizing with Two Bad Ants

With detailed description and a limited set of characters, Two Bad Ants, is an ideal book for readers who need to practice retelling and summarizing. Show students how to find the problem and solution for each of the scenes in the book. Then prompt them to use what they've learned from looking at each scene to retell the story.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.3.1,RL.3.2,RL.3.4,RL.3.7,RL.3.10,RF.3.3,RF.3.4,SL.3.1d,SL.3.2,SL.3.3,W.3.8,L.3.6
TEKS Alignment
3.7D,3.13H,3.13E,3.13C,3.8D,3.8C,3.8B,3.7G,3.7F,3.7E,3.1A,3.7C,3.7B,3.6I,3.6G,3.6A,3.1E,3.1D,3.1C
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Suffixes with Two Bad Ants

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg as a springboard for instruction focused on suffixes.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how three sounds of suffix -ed are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with suffixes.

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RF.3.3,RF.3.4
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Vocabulary Connections with Two Bad Ants

This set of vocabulary development resources for Two Bad Ants 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.3.4a,L.3.5b,L.3.6
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3.7E,3.7F,3.3A,3.3B
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Comprehension Assessment with Two Bad Ants

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Two Bad Ants.
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Running Record with Two Bad Ants

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Two Bad Ants. 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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Suffixes with Two Bad Ants

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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Asking Questions with Two Bad Ants (Spanish)

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Making Connections with Two Bad Ants (Spanish)

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Making Inferences with Two Bad Ants (Spanish)

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Making Predictions with Two Bad Ants (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Two Bad Ants (Spanish)

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Suffixes with Two Bad Ants (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: Two Bad Ants
Author: Chris Van Allsburg
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Adventure, Friendship
ISBN: 9780395486689
Publisher's Summary:
Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg is a captivating picture book that invites young readers into the bustling world of an ant colony and the extraordinary adventure of two rebellious ants. When the ant colony discovers a kitchen brimming with sparkling sugar crystals, they set out on an important mission to retrieve this treasure for their queen. However, two curious ants decide to break the rules and stay behind in the sugar bowl, dreaming of enjoying the sweet bounty all to themselves.

What follows is a series of wild and hazardous escapades as the ants navigate the unfamiliar and dangerous terrain of a human kitchen. From plunging into hot coffee to narrowly escaping a toaster and an electric outlet, the two ants learn firsthand the perils that come with straying from the group and ignoring instructions. Van Allsburg's signature illustrations and rich, descriptive language bring the ants' perspective to life, transforming everyday kitchen objects into enormous, mysterious landscapes.

The book offers ample opportunities for classroom discussion about choices, consequences, and the value of teamwork and obedience. Its imaginative point of view and suspenseful journey are sure to engage students and prompt conversations about perspective, safety, and the comfort of home. Two Bad Ants is a wonderful read-aloud and a valuable resource for lessons in narrative structure, descriptive writing, and critical thinking.
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