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Wendy Pierce

Around the Big Lagoon

Grades: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade
Subjects: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Special Education

Student Instructions

In the short story "Around the Big Lagoon," Alana sees many different animals while she it sitting near her apartment. Recreate a one picture scene showing each animal that was in the story with text features naming the animal and what was each animals' special trait. 1. Click T to add a text box. Here you toggle to get to emojis. Search and insert the animals that were in the story. 2. Click T or the pen to now add a text feature to label the animal. 3. Click T or the pen to insert a label explaining the feature of each animal. 4. Click on the microphone to read you paragraph that you have written to summarize your story.

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