The story revolves around an anthropomorphic, tricky, clever fox named Mr. Fox who lives underground beside a tree with his wife and four children. In order to feed his family, he makes nightly visits to farms owned by three wicked, cruel, dimwitted farmers named Boggis, Bunce, and Bean and snatches the livestock available on each man's farm. Tired of being outsmarted by Mr. Fox, the farmers devise a plan to ambush him as he leaves his hole, but they succeed only in shooting off his tail.
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Learning Sequence
*Pre read HOLO #
*LOLO - Picture walk and read chapter by chapter with a focus on Chapters 1-2.
*Discuss the purpose of the text, the characters and intended audience.
* Discussion stems:
*Examine HOLO
*Talk about and highlight the development each of the characters. Examine in a HOLO.
*Transformation Passage.
*Have students make a decision about what they would do, if they were the kid in this book. *Write 3 reasons for own decision (for or against). (as in the image below)
*Students will write a short letter to the ant outlining 3 reasons for their decision. #
* Post read HOLO #
*Pre read HOLO #
*LOLO - Picture walk and read chapter by chapter with a focus on Chapters 1-2.
*Discuss the purpose of the text, the characters and intended audience.
* Discussion stems:
*Examine HOLO
*Talk about and highlight the development each of the characters. Examine in a HOLO.
*Transformation Passage.
*Have students make a decision about what they would do, if they were the kid in this book. *Write 3 reasons for own decision (for or against). (as in the image below)
*Students will write a short letter to the ant outlining 3 reasons for their decision. #
* Post read HOLO #
*In addition, throughout the teaching of this text, have students research and collect facts about foxes from informative texts.
* Complete works of art on Foxes! Link to Wanted Signs! Fox puppet on a string!
* Watch Movie and identify similarities and differences between the text / movie.
# Assessment of learning
* Complete works of art on Foxes! Link to Wanted Signs! Fox puppet on a string!
* Watch Movie and identify similarities and differences between the text / movie.
# Assessment of learning
Reflections