Description

In Turtles Around the Pond, follow a painted turtle from a sunny spot on a log in the middle of the pond to the grassy shore where he meets an unexpected and curious new friend. Learn about turtles and why they like to live around a pond. Turtles Around the Pond, part of the nonfiction/informational Around the Pond, is a Level C, Early Emergent Reader.

Turtles Around the Pond can be found in the following Sets and Collections:

Coordinating Activities:

Use these directions to make our Menagerie Animal Cracker Box to store your books.
Compare turtles and tortoises with this Turtles & Tortoises Venn Diagram Activity.
Organize what you know and what you’ve learned with our KWL Chart.
Why did turtles develope shells?
Write a Cinquain Poem about turtles. Use Danny’s Tadpole Cinquain poem for inspiration.
Explore around the pond, then write an Animal Simile Poem about it. Use Norman’s A Trip to the Zoo poem for inspiration.
Create a Comic Speech Bubble about turtles.
Continue the story with a Three-Panel Story Strip or a Six-Panel Story Strip.
Color and send your own Custom Danny Card.
Learn more about Danny and his friends in the All About MRB Word Search.
Organize your Danny books in the classroom with a Danny Doghouse, complete with a chalkboard roof.
Download a complete list of Glossary Words introduced in our nonfiction/informational titles.
Print Around the Pond Book Labels for your classroom reading library. Level labels will print on the Avery Easy Peel® 5160 Labels template.