ELD-Animals Descriptions 3Objective: Students will be able to describe a different animal’s physical attributes and actions using the pronoun “it” and the conjunction “and”.

vocabulary word: fastidious

Our predictions for the word fastidious

Not easy to pleaseSomething fast (1) or slowFantasticI don’t knowQuicknessVery particular or sensitiveSomone annoyed or worried

fastidious defined as

• adjective: very careful; picky

Sample sentences:The black rhino was fastidious about

choosing his mate.

The grammatical forms we will use are

adjectives, verbs, adverbs, the pronoun it and the conjunction and.

Adjectives that might describe various animals

gigantic vicious colossal territorial

tiny short timid protective

sluggish selective sociable reclusive

miniscule hairy greedy sharp

Adverbs that we might use to modify the animal’s actions

gracefully purposefully effortlessly cautiously

happily recklessly quickly sadly

Question: What verbs can we attach to the adverbs above and what animals fit those verb/adverb descriptions?

Our sentence framesQuestion:①Describe a/an ______(animal) and

what it can do.Response:• A/an ______(animal) is

_______(adjective) and it can _______(verb) __________(adverb).

Example sentence frames

Question:①Describe a snake and what it can

do.

Response:①A snake is reclusive and it can

slither purposefully.