Home resources jobs news magazine community courses register for free. Not every part of the snowshoe hare changes color throughout the year. This unit contains 4 sheets, 10 vocabulary words from the story snowshoe hares winter home. An important identification trick is to look at a snowshoe hares ears. Snowshoe hares winter home lexile 530l literary text leveled text library instructional support for module a is found in the readygen teachers guide for grade 2, unit 1. A gray hare lived during the winter near a village. Snowshoe hares winter home trifold readygen 2nd grade. It also always has a gray underbelly, and black on the tips and edges of its ears and tail. Ebscohost serves thousands of libraries with premium essays, articles and other content including snowshoe hares winter home. The aptly named snowshoe hare has particularly large feet and a winterwhite coat. I also have the original readygen version completed. Pearson school starter template home cicero school.
The tips of the ears are always black no matter the season. How do writers create a clear sequence of events in a story. A correlation of pearson readygen, 2014 and pearson longman cornerstone, 20. The words that were chosen are from the readygen 2nd grade curriculum, unit 1, module a. Were likely to find hare tracks hopping in and around lowland conifers near wetland edges, and then again at higher elevations, where the forest transitions into fir, birch, and spruce.
The story of a snowshoe hare smithsonian wild heritage collection hardcover september 1, 1993. In yukon hares weigh one to two kilograms and may reach half a metre in length. When night came, he would prick up one ear and listen, then he would prick up the other, jerk his whiskers, snuff, and sit up on his hind legs. The snowshoe hare is believed to always be white, but that isnt the case. When the seasons change to spring and summer, snowshoe hares.
This is a trifold that can be done independently or in small groups for the story snowshoe hares winter home of the 2nd grade readygen reading series. Readygen snowshoe hares winter home vocabulary 2nd grade. If yours is different, please write in the page numbers on the blank. For the past 14 years, my winter ecology students and i have spent a lot of time outdoors, studying the preferred habitat features and winter foods of snowshoe hares. Depending on the season, their fur can be a different color. Snowshoe hares winter home ebsco information services. Smithsonian wild heritage collection as the seasons pass, snowshoe hares coat changes from brown to white and back to brown again, helping her to blend into her habitat and avoid predators as she searches for food. This unit contains 4 sheets, 10 vocabulary words from the story snowshoe hares w inter home. The snowshoe hares ears are not as long as some other species of hares ears. Using the inspiration in the stories of snowshoe hares winter home and charlotte. Essential questions how do readers understand a characters point of view. Snowshoe hare facts and information lepus americanus introduction to snowshoe hare.
During the winter, snowshoe hares are white, which helps them blend in with the snow. In a snowy forest, a small animal with pure white fur is munching on evergreen branches. Supporting standards taught, scaffolded, and formatively assessed throughout the unit gradual release model throughout year grade 2 unit 1 understanding communities module a module b anchor and supporting texts anchor and. The short story snowshoe hares winter home, by gillian richardson, is presented. In the summer though, their fur turns brown, taking up to ten weeks to change color completely. It has very large hind feet, and dense fur on their soles. Snowshoe hares have an interesting adaptation that helps protect them against predators.
The snowshoe hares fur is rusty brown in the spring and summer, and white in the winter. Grade 2, unit 1 vertical standards map draft stage. This is a trifold that can be done independently or in small groups for the story snowshoe hares winter home of the 2nd grade readygen 2016 common core and noncommon core reading series. Then he would give one leap, two leaps, through the snow, and sit up again on his hind legs and look all around.
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