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    Animals Nobody Loves – Science Mentor Text

    July 21, 2013

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    Animals Nobody Loves is the perfect mentor text to practice close reading! Jivey walks through the steps with this engaging text and offers a free downloadable task!

    If you don’t mind a few screams and gasps from students while reading, I have got just the book for you!

    Animals Nobody Loves is the perfect mentor text to practice close reading! Jivey walks through the steps with this engaging text and offers a free downloadable task!The cover alone is enough to send some people running!  Animals Nobody Loves by Seymour Simon** is a great non-fiction book on animals, of course. The book has 26 different pages/animals, each with its own short passage, making this book the PERFECT book to use for modeling close reading. Seymour Simon reveals the truth about nature’s most misunderstood animals and lets the reader decide what to really think about natures grossest, fiercest, and most fascinating survivors. (Amazon description)

    **affiliate link- Amazon gives me a couple cents when you use this link and I use that money to help pay for my giveaways!**

    Animals Nobody Loves is the perfect mentor text to practice close reading! Jivey walks through the steps with this engaging text and offers a free downloadable task!Seymour Simon does an excellent job describing each animal in an engaging way. It’s really a great book to show how to make their non-fiction writing more interesting (because we know those can sometimes be the students’ most BORING pieces of writing…) while still maintaining the truth.

    One thing I like to do with this book is to show the students one of the pictures FIRST. They work with a partner to decide what vocabulary words they are sure they will hear on that page.

    As we read, they check off words on their list that were in the text, and add other important words. Then, they use these words to help summarize what we’ve read. It really works wonderfully because it keeps them from just “using” a sentence or two from the book, and it holds them accountable for using that important vocabulary!

    I also want the students to get some practice with close reading strategies like summarizing, being able to locate explicit information, and identifying purpose in a text, to name a few. We practice this together for several days using some of the pages from this mentor text, and then I give them a task to complete on their own.

    Animals Nobody Loves is the perfect mentor text to practice close reading! Jivey walks through the steps with this engaging text and offers a free downloadable task!

    I have a great free task you can download to use with the page all about the octopus!

    Animals Nobody Loves is the perfect mentor text to practice close reading! Jivey walks through the steps with this engaging text and offers a free downloadable task!

    I suggest making the students a copy of the octopus page from the book so they will have the text in hand, and also so that they can mark the evidence in the text to answer these questions.

    This mentor text is great for SO many skills and standards!
    Check out this post where we integrated information from Animals Nobody Loves with the book, Vulture Verses, to write love poems!

    This mentor text is one of TEN featured in my Better Than Basal Nonfiction Mini-Unit.


    This mini-unit provides activities and other lesson ideas to help integrate non-fiction mentor texts into your reading and writing lessons!

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