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