Educators' Guides for Zig and Wikki in The Cow
HARDCOVER ISBN-13 978-1-935179-15-3
LEXILE LEVEL: GN 270
GUIDED READING LEVEL: P
LEXILE LEVEL: GN 270
GUIDED READING LEVEL: P
Lesson Plan
Plot | Zig and Wikki have lost their spaceship. Inside of a cow! Life and learning put together in an engaging story about cows, bugs, aliens, and maybe most importantly to kids, poop, this story is more than just a good read. It’s educational with a charismatic, storytelling twist. |
Characters | Zig, Wikki, flies, cows, beetles |
Setting | space, a farm, inside a cow |
Themes | scientific discovery, friendship, life and life cycles, cause and effect |
Characters | Zig and Wikki in Something Ate My Homework by Nadja Spiegelman and Trade Loeffler, This is Your Life Cycle by Heather Miller and Michael Chesworth, Life Cycles by Michael Ross and Gustav Moore |
Alignment to Applicable IRA/NCTE Standards for Teaching Reading and Writing to Early Readers | 2. Students read a wide range of literature from many periods in many genres to build an understanding of the many dimensions (e.g., philosophical, ethical, aesthetic) of human experience. 3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics). 4. Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes |
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