Desert animals must adapt to extremes in temperature and a scarcity of water. Their collective stories of adaptation and survival are fascinating, presenting a strong point of interest for story building. This work invites the child to build a short story about animals in the desert using illustrative sentence starters and moveable parts of speech. The set includes:
- 8 sentence starters that depict desert animals seen during the day (woodpecker, kit fox, tortoise, horned lizard); and animals active at night (elf owl, coyote, jack rabbit, bat)
- 8 nouns (black)
- 8 verbs (red)
- 8 capitalized articles “A” and “An” (lt. blue)
- 8 prepositional phrases
- 2 illustrative sentences to introduce day/night paragraphs
- Story title card, detailed lesson plans and read-aloud suggestions
All cards are laminated; storage boxes not included
