Rikki Tikki Tavi

Last week our class began reading the book Rikki Tikki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling.  The first time we read the book we focused on the following vocabulary words: cunning, scornful, restless, immense, restless, scuttle and cower. The second time we read the book we focused on all the reasons why Rikki Tikki Tavi had a right to be proud of himself. 

After reading the book a second time we matched pictures to sentence strips which described why Rikki Tikki Tavi had a right to be proud.  We also matched vocabulary definitions to pictures depicting vocabulary words.  After the matching of pictures as a class we wrote a 5 finger paragraph with the focus being, “Why does Rikki Tikki Tavi have a right to be proud of himself?” We used evidence from the text when backing up all the reasons. 

After we completed a class response to text, students wrote their own five finger paragraph on why they believe Rikki Tikki Tavi had a right to be proud of himself.  Students’ response to texts can be viewed during Parent Teacher Conferences (posted outside our classroom).  The video below shows our great thinking throughout this activity.