Oviparous Animals Lesson Plans Plus a FREE File

Oviparous Animals:  Schema

When we learn about animals that lay eggs, we start by examining our schema about oviparous animals.   This interactive writing activity not only helps us see what we already know about oviparous animals, but we also get to work a little on stretching out sounds.

As the students assist in completing this schema about animals that lay eggs, I am able to support students right where they are academically.

This is a perfect opportunity to reinforce what they already know about how words and phonics work.

Here is our completed schema chart on animals that lay eggs.

Once students have completed the oviparous animal chart together, they then do some writing on their own.  Some will use the chart for support, others will respond independently.

Here is another example!  The box on top tells what this student already knew about animals that lay eggs.  The bottom box shows us her new learning.

We also worked together to complete an oviparous animal concept sort where we sorted oviparous and viviparous animals.

Then the students completed their own oviparous and viviparous animal sort.

Not only did we learn about animals that lay eggs, we also worked on the author’s purpose for this book!

And a little oviparous animal-themed opinion writing!

Oviparous Animals: Informational Writing

After a week of learning about oviparous animals, students work on writing what they learned.

Oviparous Animals: Craft

A week would not be complete without creating a little oviparous animal craft.

You can find all of these oviparous activities shown above by clicking:

• Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones (Part of the Engaging Readers Unit for April)

Oviparous Animal:  Digital Version

In 2021, we created a digital reading response version of Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones. It has been preloaded to Seesaw and a Google Slides version of the file has also been added.

• SEESAW Engaging Readers Nonfiction Spring Books

Oviparous Animal:  Poem

One of our favorite poems of the year is the Oviparous poem!  We sing it over and over!

You can find this poem by clicking:

• Oviparous Animals Poem (Part of the March Shared Reading and Poems)

Oviparous Animals:  Sentence Writing

We used these oviparous animals themed Read, Trace, Glue, and Draw pages for our morning work.  This is a great chance to work on handwriting skills and the students love them!  Because students are not asked to compose the sentence, they can put their writing energy into forming the letters correctly.

You can find all of these pages by clicking:

• Oviparous Animals Read, Trace, Glue, and Draw

Oviparous Animals: Class Book

We also enjoy creating a class book each year.  You can grab this free response page at the end of this blog post.

Have a fantastic week.  

 Oviparous Animal: Free File!

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