Extensions Read Quick As A Cricket and write a class book using simile. Read and perform poems from Joyful Noise, Poems for Two Voices (students could memorize words; each student could do one or two lines). As a class, write a story about a female cricket, noting her different attributes. Keep charts asking new questions about crickets for the students to answer (i.e. Do you like the sound of cricket's chirping? Do you think crickets have ears? Are all crickets alike? Do you like crickets?) Words with Special Meanings (for understanding only, not to be tested) Characteristic: a distinguishing feature or quality. Chirp: to make a sharp sound. Different: not similar or alike. Female: a girl animal; the one that produces a baby. Hypothesis (hypotheses, plural): a tentative explanation for a question that can be tested using experimentation. Male: a boy animal. Observe: to look at and pay special attention to what something does, what it looks like, and how it changes. Ovipositor: a structure at the end of the abdomen on some female insects used for egg laying. Predict: to guess what you believe will happen. Similar: alike in a general way, but not exactly. Bibliography Braus, Judy, et al. Incredible Insects. Washington DC: NatureScope Series; National Wildlife Federation, 1984 Carle, Eric. A Very Quiet Cricket. Illustrated by the author. New York: Philomel Books, 1990 Caudill, Rebecca. A Pocketful of Cricket. Illustrated by Evaline Ness. New York: Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, 1964. 48 pp. Grades PS-3. Cricket in Times Square. Video. Cole, Joanna. An Insect's Body. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984 Fisher, Aileen. A Cricket in the Thicket. New York: Scribner, 1963 Fleischman, Paul. Joyful Noise, Poems For Two Voices. New York: Harper & Row, 1988 George, Jean Craighead. All Upon a Stone. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1971 Hogner, Dorothy Childs. Grasshoppers and Crickets. New York: Thomas Crowell Co., 1960 Howe, James. I Wish I Were a Butterfly. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1987 Jiminy Cricket. Video. New York: Walt Disney Johnson, Sylvia. Chirping Insects. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications, Co., 1976 Keats, Ezra Jack. Over In The Meadow. New York: Four Winds Press, 1971 Keats, Ezra Jack. Maggie and the Pirate. New York: Four Winds Press, 1979 Kimmel, Eric A. Why Worry? New York: Pantheon Books, 1979 Levine, Gloria. Cricket in Times Square: A Study Guide. LRN Links, 1987 Lobel, Arnold. "The Crickets" from Mouse Soup. New York: Harper and Row, 1977 Mizumura, Kazue. If I Were a Cricket.... New York: Thomas Crowell, 1973 Porter, Keith. Discovering Grasshoppers and Crickets. New York: The Bookwrights Press, 1986 Selden, George. Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981 Selden, George. Cricket in Times Square. New York: Ariel Books, 1960 Simon, Seymour. Discovering What Crickets Do. New York: McGraw Hill Book Co., 1973 Stevens, Carla. Catch A Cricket. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 1961 Watts, Barrie. Grasshoppers and Crickets - Keeping Minibeasts. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1991 Wayland Publishing. Grasshoppers and Crickets. East Sussex, UK: Wayland Publishing Ltd., 1979 Wildlife Education Staff. Insects Vol. I - Zoobooks. San Diego, CA: Wildlife Education, Ltd., 1984 Wildlife Education Staff. Insects Vol. II - Zoobooks. San Diego, CA: Wildlife Education, Ltd., 1984 Wood, Don and Audrey. Quick as a Cricket. New York: ChildŐs Play International, Inc., 1982

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