LFO Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 72
2. Let’s Talk!
Have the students look at the children in the pictures. Ask the students to predict what they
think the poem is about.
Pullout Box – About the Writer
Have the students read the little bit of information on Mem Fox. Make sure they understand
that she is a children’s author and she enjoys writing about kids and for kids. She is a
teacher as well as a writer. You can use this information to help them make a connection
between the poem and the writer.
For more information on Mem Fox, you can go to http://memfox.com/ .
While Reading
3. Let’s Read!
Read the poem to the children, one stanza at a time. After each
stanza ask questions to make sure everything was understood.
Then read the whole poem together.
Go to www.eadventure.co.il/LFO to play this text.
ALC: Students identify and
describe events, setting
and main characters in
literary texts, using lowerorder thinking skills.
Stanza one: What does the poet say about children? (they are like
you)
Stanza two: What is different? (their faces, their homes)
Stanza three: What is different? (their names, their words)
Stanza four: What is the same? (their smiles, their laugh, their sadness, their crying)
Stanza five: What is the same? (love, smiles, hearts) What should we remember? (that we
are the same all over the world)
Pages 40-41
Basic Understanding
4. Let’s Write!
Have the students answer the questions according to the
poem on pages 38-39 in their notebooks.
Answers:
1. a. different faces, homes, words, names
HOTS: INTEGRATE
b. same smiles, they laugh / are sad / cry / like you
Analysis and Interpretation
2. d
5. Let’s Match!
Have the students write their answers in their notebooks.
1. b
2. b
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ALC: Students identify and
describe events, setting and
main characters in literary
texts, using lower-order
thinking skills.
ALC: Students analyze and
interpret literary texts, using
higher – order thinking skills.
