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Amazing Caves
LEGE Guided Reading · Level B
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💎
🐠
🪱
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🔮 Before Reading · Predict📖 Cover
What can you find in a cave? 🔦
📖 This book is about CAVES!
🤔 Focus Question:
What can you find in a cave?
What can you find in a cave?
A
🪨 Rocks
B
💎 Crystals
C
🦇 Animals
📚 Words to KnowVocabulary
Learn these words FIRST! 🎯
📖 Read Together · Page 3p. 3
sharp rocks 🪨
Stalactites & Stalagmites!
This cave has sharp rocks.
🪨 Point to the sharp rocks!
Are they pointing up or down?
Would you touch them? Why?
Are they pointing up or down?
Would you touch them? Why?
🔑 Key Pattern
This cave has ___.
🍎 Teacher: Track "This cave has" — it repeats every page!
📖 Read Together · Page 4p. 4
blue water 💧
A diver!
This cave has blue water.
💧 WOW! Water inside a cave!
Can you see the person in the water?
What colour is the water?
Can you see the person in the water?
What colour is the water?
A
💙 Blue
B
🟡 Yellow
✏️ Fill in the Blanks!Practice
Can you remember? 🧠
Complete the sentences!
This cave has sharp rocks. 🪨
This cave has blue water. 💧
What word is THE SAME in both sentences?
📖 Read Together · Page 5p. 5
black bats 🦇
This cave has black bats.
🦇 So many bats!
Can you count them?
Why do bats live in caves?
Can you count them?
Why do bats live in caves?
🔤 Adjective + Noun
black (colour) + bats (animal)
📖 Read Together · Page 6p. 6
big crystals 💎
HUGE — taller than a person!
This cave has big crystals.
💎 These crystals are HUGE!
Can you see the person next to them?
Are they bigger or smaller than you?
Can you see the person next to them?
Are they bigger or smaller than you?
🔤 Adjective + Noun
big (size) + crystals (thing)
🔍 Pattern Discovery!Language Focus
Every page says the SAME thing! 🎉
The Pattern 🔑
This cave has [adjective] [noun].
🪨
sharp rocks
💧
blue water
🦇
black bats
💎
big crystals
What TWO words change each time?
adjective + noun 🤔
adjective + noun 🤔
🔮 What's Next? · Predict!Predict
We've seen: 🪨 sharp rocks, 💧 blue water, 🦇 black bats, 💎 big crystals...
What will the next cave have? 🤔
What will the next cave have? 🤔
🪱
bright worms
🎨
old drawings
🐠
shiny fish
🍦
ice cream!
📖 Read Together · Page 7p. 7
bright worms 🪱
Glowworms in New Zealand!
This cave has bright worms.
🪱 These worms GLOW in the dark!
What colour are they?
Have you ever seen something glow?
What colour are they?
Have you ever seen something glow?
🍎 Teacher: Glowworms are found in caves in NZ & Australia — they make light to catch insects!
📖 Read Together · Page 8p. 8
old drawings 🎨
20,000 years old! Lascaux, France
This cave has old drawings.
🎨 People drew on cave walls LONG ago!
What animals can you see?
Why did they draw in caves?
What animals can you see?
Why did they draw in caves?
🕰️ History Connection
These drawings are 20,000 years old!
Cave people = our ancient ancestors!
Cave people = our ancient ancestors!
📖 Read Together · Page 9p. 9
shiny fish 🐠
This cave has shiny fish.
🐠 So many fish!
What makes them look shiny?
Can you count the colours?
What makes them look shiny?
Can you count the colours?
A
🔵 The water
B
✨ Their scales
📖 Read Together · Page 10p. 10
The book asks YOU! 🤩
What does this cave have?
This cave has ___ ___!
🪨 This cave has big rocks!
🟢 This cave has green walls!
💡 This cave has bright lights!
📐 Grammar Focus · Adjective + NounGrammar
Describing words + Thing words! 🎯
The Pattern
This cave has [HOW?] [WHAT?]
Adjective (describes)
sharp · blue · black · big · bright · old · shiny
Noun (thing)
rocks · water · bats · crystals · worms · drawings · fish
Make your own! This cave has ___ ___.
✏️ Full Review!Review
Fill in ALL the words! 🎯
⚖️ Compare & ContrastThinking
How are the caves the SAME? Different? 🤔
🪨 Cave with sharp rocks
Hard, rocky, dangerous
Hard, rocky, dangerous
↔️
💧 Cave with blue water
Wet, swimmable, beautiful
Wet, swimmable, beautiful
🦇 Cave with black bats
Living animals inside
Living animals inside
↔️
🎨 Cave with old drawings
Made by ancient people
Made by ancient people
SAME for ALL caves 🔑
All caves are underground & dark! 🔦
They all have interesting things inside!
They all have interesting things inside!
🔄 Retell the Book!Retell
Can you retell? 🌟
🪨 sharp
rocks
rocks
→
🦇 black
bats
bats
→
🪱 bright
worms
worms
→
🎨 old
drawings
drawings
→
🐠 shiny
fish
fish
Use this scaffold! 🗣️
This cave has ___ ___.
Amazing Reading! 🎉
📖 We read Amazing Caves!
🆕 Words: sharp · bright · crystals · drawings · shiny
🔑 Pattern: "This cave has [adj] [noun]."
📐 Grammar: adjective (describes) + noun (thing)
🗣️ High-frequency words: this · has
🆕 Words: sharp · bright · crystals · drawings · shiny
🔑 Pattern: "This cave has [adj] [noun]."
📐 Grammar: adjective (describes) + noun (thing)
🗣️ High-frequency words: this · has
🔦 Keep exploring caves! 🦇
