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Use What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You? by Steve Jenkins to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

In this highly entertaining book, author Steve Jenkins invites readers to learn about the fascinating ways animals protect themselves from danger. Students will learn about animals who blow up like balloons, fly through the air, and run across the water to escape predators. Every page of this informational read aloud begs children to make predictions about animal behavior, determine important facts, and synthesize the information presented within the pages of this popular text.
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Asking Questions with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?

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This highly entertaining informational text is the ideal springboard for a mini lesson focused on asking questions while reading. Children will easily form questions about the unusual animals in this book, making it fun to model how and why readers ask questions to deepen comprehension while reading nonfiction.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RI.2.7RI.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.1cSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RI.2.1
TEKS Alignment
  • 2.7F2.1C2.8C2.1D2.9D(i)2.6A2.9D(ii)2.6B2.9D(iii)2.6E2.13A2.6I2.13C2.7B2.13E2.7C2.13G2.7D2.7E2.1A
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Determining Importance with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?

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Determining Importance with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?

Students often find it easier to determine importance while reading informational texts. Focus on the guiding questions included in this mini lesson and set of student resources to support the readers in your classroom who are working on mastering their ability to determine important facts and supporting details in text.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RI.2.6RI.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.1cSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
  • 2.7C2.13E2.1A2.7D2.13G2.1C2.7E2.1D2.7F2.6A2.8A2.6B2.8C2.6E2.9C2.6G2.9D(i)2.6I2.9D(ii)2.7A2.9D(iii)2.7B2.13C
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Making Predictions with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?

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Making Predictions with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?

Steve Jenkins makes it fun for readers to make predictions with his compelling text and vibrant illustrations. Readers will enjoy using both text and picture clues to predict how the animals in this text escape their predators.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • SL.2.1bSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RI.2.3RI.2.4RI.2.8RI.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4
TEKS Alignment
  • 2.6C2.9D(ii)2.6E2.9D(iii)2.6I2.13C2.7A2.13E2.7B2.13G2.7C2.1A2.7D2.1C2.7E2.1D2.7F2.6A2.8C2.6B2.9D(i)
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Synthesizing with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?

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Children will enjoy engaging with this nonfiction text while sharing what they already know about how animals protect themselves. Follow this text-dependent mini lesson to teach your students how readers synthesize information while reading in order to add to their knowledge of animal behavior.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • SL.2.3RI.2.4W.2.8RI.2.5L.2.6RI.2.6RI.2.7RI.2.8RI.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4RI.2.1SL.2.1bRI.2.2SL.2.2RI.2.3
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  • 2.7C2.13G2.7D2.7E2.1A2.7F2.1C2.8C2.1D2.9C2.6A2.9D(i)2.6B2.9D(ii)2.6H2.9D(iii)2.6I2.13C2.7B2.13E
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Understanding Text Structure with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?

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Author Steve Jenkins delivers information about animals in an exciting and captivating way. He plays a guessing game with readers using a sequence of cause and effect scenarios. Readers who are working with text structure will love spending time with this book.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • SL.2.1bSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RI.2.1RI.2.5RI.2.7RI.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4
TEKS Alignment
  • 2.7C2.13C2.7D2.13E2.7E2.13G2.7F2.8C2.1A2.9C2.1C2.9D(i)2.1D2.9D(ii)2.6A2.9D(iii)2.6I2.10B2.7B2.10C
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Digraphs with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?

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Digraphs with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use What Do You Do When Something Wants to Eat You? by Steve Jenkins as a springboard for instruction focused on digraphs.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how ck letter combination is used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with digraphs.

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  • RF.2.4RF.2.3
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Vocabulary Connections with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?

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This set of vocabulary development resources for What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You? 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.2.5aL.2.6L.2.4a
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  • 2.7E2.7F2.3A2.3B2.3D
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Running Record with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?

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Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You? 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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Research with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?

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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 What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You? (Spanish)

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Determining Importance with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You? (Spanish)

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Making Predictions with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You? (Spanish)

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Synthesizing with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You? (Spanish)

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Understanding Text Structure with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You? (Spanish)

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Research with What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You? (Spanish)

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Title: What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?
Author: Steve Jenkins
Genre: Informational, Nonfiction
Themes: Animals & Insects
ISBN: 9780547772912
Publisher's Summary:
What would you do if something wanted to eat you? Walk on water? Stick out your tongue? Play dead? Animals in the wild use all kinds of methods to protect themselves from their enemies. Using dynamic and intricate cut-paper collages, Steve Jenkins explores the many fascinating and unique defense mechanisms creatures use to escape from danger.
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