ELD-Animals Descriptions 1

Objective: Students will be able to describe an animal’s physical attributes using the senses of sight, touch, sound, and smell.

vocabulary word: endangered

Our predictions for the word endangeredIt’s an adjective.Something dangerous or bad (2)Something will become extinct (2)Something is not safeWhen only a little bit of animals are left

Endangered is

• An adjective; a description of something that is threatened or may become extinct.

Sample sentence:

Bald eagles are an endangered species.

The grammatical forms we will use are

sensory adjectives to describe the the way that animals look, feel, sound, and smell.

Adjectives we might use to describe animals (provided by students)

Look (tiger) Feel (porcupine) Sound (alligator) Smell (panda)

stripey spiky scary poopy

colorful sharp snappy weird

large painful angry disgusting

Adjectives we might use to describe animals

Look Feel sound smell

gigantic smooth loud disgusting

miniscule bumpy discordant fowl

furry soft melodious musty

Our sentence framesQuestion:①How do you describe a/an ______(student

fills in animal)?

Response:①A/an ______( animal) looks ______(sight

adjective). It feels ______(touch adjective). It also sounds ______(audio adjective). Lastly, a/an ____(animal) smells ______(smell adjective).

Example sentence frames

Question:①How do you describe an aye-aye?

Response:①An aye-aye looks unusual. It feels soft. It

also sounds screechy. Lastly, an aye-aye smells musty.