Exploring+the+African+Grasslands+-+Text+Set

ELP 4: ====[|Honey...Honey...Lion!] By Jan Brett. 2005. G.P. Putnman's Sons, New York.==== This is a story from Africa about a Honeyguide (bird who finds honey) and a Badger. The Badger gets too greedy one day and doesn’t share the honey with Honeyguide! The Honeyguide decides to do something about it…
 * Narrative Texts:**

ELP 2:

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[|Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti] [|Paperback] ===== ====by [|HARCOURT SCHOOL PUBLISHERS]. 1987. ==== "Anansi the Spider is a wise, funny, mischievous, and loveable folk hero who pops up in traditional Ashanti tales from Ghana, in West Africa. This story, retold and illustrated by Gerald McDermott, relates the tale of father Anansi and his six spider sons. When Anansi sets out on a dangerous journey and gets into all sorts of trouble, each son does one thing to help, and all their efforts together save their father. He finds a mysterious, beautiful globe of light in the forest, and decides to make it a gift of thanks. But which son should receive the prize? Even with the help of Nyame, the God of All Things, he can't decide, so Nyame takes the great globe up into the sky, and that's where it has stayed ever since--the moon, for all to see. This profound story reaches children of many ages; younger ones see it as an exciting rescue story, but older children are intrigued by the larger themes of cooperation and "the whole being more than its parts."" - Amazon Review

ELP 3:
==== [|Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale] [|Paperback] ==== by [|Verna Aardema]. 1992. "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears is an African folktale which offers a great lesson to be learned by children. The story is about a mosquito who tells a lie to an iguana and annoys the iguana. This sets off a series of events that affects everyone who lives in the forest and the initiation of daylight. It is an excellent story for a young reader to learn the consequence of telling lies and the detrimental affect it can have on individuals and communities. After reading this story to a students, teacher should determine whether the child understood the lesson of this folktale and emphasize how important it is to always tell the truth." - Amazon Review
 * This would also be a great read for exploring cause and effect!

=Videos:= [|Circle of Life] (English) (Opening of the song is sung in Zulu)
 * Traditional Lion King opening song, with many African grassland animals for children to see!

[|Circle of Life] (Zulu)
 * Lion King's opening song sung in the Zulu language!
 * Other languages (and links to videos) provided within the introductory activity guide
 * Videos not yet linked into safeshare

[|Going on a Lion Hunt]
 * Interactive song filled with prepositions and nice vocabulary

=Informational Texts:=

ELP 2:

[|Animal Babies in grasslands by Jennifer Schofield]

Schofield, Jennifer, //Animal Babies in grasslands.// Boston:Kingfisher, 2004.

Barnes and Noble Review: Young readers will take an amazing journey from the African savanna to the Australian outback in Animal Babies in Grasslands, which features six young animals that live in hot, dry places. Families of elephants, zebras, lions, prairie dogs, kangaroos, and giraffes are brought to life with delightful photography and lively text that young children will love.

A simple introduction to the baby and adult animals that live in grassland areas.

ELP 3:

[|Lions (Baby Animals)]

By: Kate Perry Gloucester Press Publishing in 1990.

This book details the early life of a lion and the daily events that occur. Readers learn how lions eat, play, sleep and cooperate with members of their pack.

ELP 4:

[|African Animals]

By Caroline Arnold Harper Collins 1997

This book is an informational text outlining the variety of habitats within Africa. For the ELP 4 students only select Grassland animals would be used including Zebras, Giraffes, Elephants, Rhinos, Lions and Cheetahs.