Rainforest Animals Storytime Lesson and Scavenger Hunts

This Rainforest Animals Storytime walks you through a flexible, two-part library lesson for K-2. Includes rainforest animal haiku, ASL sign language, rainforest vocabulary, animal adaptations, and loads of facts and trivia questions.

This lesson has 79 total pages and slides, and it includes:

• 53-slide Lesson Presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint + Google Slides
  • All body text is editable; you choose which slides you want to use.
  • 19 slides are for the read-aloud and/or guided lesson that walks you through the storytime lesson.
  • 24 slides are “scrolling presentation” slides that are great for extending lessons or scrolling in the library during checkout and downtimes.
  • 6 slides are review slides at the end of the lesson to keep students engaged as they line up.
  • Please note that this presentation is designed to complement a read-aloud. The actual read-aloud story comes from you! Due to copyright laws, read-aloud videos of the books are NOT included.
• Two (2) editable, differentiated scavenger hunts (3 pages, PowerPoint and PDF)
  • Students “hunt” for images and information in the Part 2 scrolling slides part of the presentation. This gives students something to focus on during library checkout and downtime.
  • Easier version – Students color the objects as they find them.
  • Harder version – Students answer questions about the information in the slides, plus find smaller images.
  • Answer key is included.
• List of 24 recommended books to accompany this lesson (1 page, PowerPoint and PDF)
  • The list is editable and great to hand out to parents, teachers, and students looking for related books.
• Detailed, pre-filled Library Lesson Plan in editable PDF and PowerPoint formats (4 pages), aligned to:
  • AASL National School Library Standards for Learners,
  • National Common Core ELA Standards, and
  • Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).
• Lesson tips and tricks for librarians on a “specials rotation” (6 pages, PDF)
• Google Classroom Basics (4 pages, PDF)
• Instructions on how to set up PowerPoint slide timings for scrolling slides (2 pages, PDF)

19 Storytime Slides:

Part 1 is a guided whole-class discussion and read-aloud. The slides walk you through the entire class discussion, from start to finish.

• Rainforest haiku poem
• ASL sign language for “sloth” and “snake” — includes video links and step-by-step directions for making the signs
• Characteristics of rainforests
• Plants and animals that live in rainforests
• 4 ways that animals’ bright colors help rainforest animals survive
• Slide for your read-aloud (paste the book cover on the slide).
• Checkout reminders slide — Add your own reminders!
• “What Should We Do Now?” slide — This is very clear instructions on what students should be doing after the lesson.

24 Scrolling Slides:

Part 2 is the scrolling slides. Set them on a timer to scroll on a screen during library checkout. Students can use the scrolling slides to complete one of the two Scavenger Hunts.

• Vocabulary Words of the Week: “humid” and “nocturnal”
• American Sign Language (ASL) fingerspelling W-A-T-E-R
• 21 Rainforest Animals: jaguar, sloth, anteater, tapir, toucan, emerald tree boa, fer-de-lance, scarlet kingsnake, ocelot, aye-aye, agouti, capuchin monkey, red-eye tree frog, orangutan, rhinoceros beetle, scarlet macaw, Atlas moth, katydid, vermilion flycatcher, poison dart frog, bat
• 2 Rainforest idioms – “birds of a feather flock together” and “when it rains, it pours”
• Additional vocabulary words: predator, camouflage, adapt, vermilion, mimicry, venomous, pit viper
• 3 Trivia question with answers
• 2 Would-You-Rather question slides
• Rainforest career – forest ranger or park ranger

7 Review Slides:

Part 3 is a section of review questions. These are six (6) open-ended questions that make great time-fillers to use while waiting for teachers to pick up students from library class.

All the questions are editable and answered in the presentation, but students can also make up additional answers for some questions.

Standards Addressed:

AASL National School Library Standards – See the AASL Standards Framework for Learners to view full text. 

• Inquire – C.1. – D.3.
• Explore – A.1. – C.1.

Common Core English Language Arts Standards –
© Copyright 2010 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. All rights reserved.

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.10. – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.10 – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.10.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.10. – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.10 – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.10.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.1. – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.1.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.6.

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