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    Jenkins BeetleBook Guide

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    A guide for discussion and classroom use

    The Beetle Book


    Steve Jenkins

    Book Summary • Beetle larvae are a delicacy


    The Beetle Book is another gem in some parts of the world.
    in Steve Jenkins’s collection of Would you eat a beetle larva?
    breathtakingly illustrated books Why or why not?
    about the amazing quirks and • Beetles communicate with
    curiosities of the natural world. one another and with other
    Jenkins’s intricate and vivid animals in some interesting
    cut-paper collages draw even ways. After reading The
    non–bug lovers into the beetle Beetle Book, discuss the
    world, and readers will also different methods of beetle
    learn about how a quarter of communication you’ve
    the earth’s living things spend their time! Jenkins tucks learned about. Can you think of other animals that
    facts about beetles’ physiology, adaptations, and methods communicate in similar ways?
    of communication and defense alongside pictures of beetles
    that are so lifelike, they look like they just might scurry off Teaching Ideas
    the page! • Study local beetles. Using books and Internet
    resources, study with your class the beetles that
    Discussion Questions for Reading Aloud are common to your area. Go on a beetle walk near
    • How can you tell if a bug is a beetle as opposed to your school! Bring sketchbooks and pencils so that
    some other kind of insect or a spider? students can sketch the beetles they see, and ask
    • Think about the beetles you’ve seen near your students to share their findings as a class when you
    home or school. After reading Jenkins’s book, how return. You may also have students photograph
    many can you name? and write about the local beetles they’ve found.
    • What are some features or behaviors of beetles that • Make a beetle wall. Collect students’ drawings,
    make them unique in the insect kingdom? photos, and writing about beetles on a classroom
    • Some beetles are considered pests, such as the “beetle wall,” to be added to as children discover
    boll weevil—but some beetles do things that are new things about beetles. Invite other classes and
    actually helpful to humans. Discuss how beetles children’s families to visit your beetle wall, and
    can be humans’ helpers. have your students give guided tours!
    • Beetles have evolved to have rigid outer wings
    covering the soft inner wings that they use to fly.
    How have these outer wings served beetles well?

    Houghton Mifflin Books for Children • www.hmhbooks.com


    • Is it a beetle? Collect either actual specimens or Introduction: Tell your students that because they have
    pictures of various insects and spiders, enough for learned so much about beetles from reading The Beetle
    teams of children to have a selection to examine. Book, by Steve Jenkins, they are ready to design their
    Ask children to think of all that they know about own beetles! Tell them that they will be using what they
    beetles’ characteristics as they sort the specimens know about beetles’ body parts and adaptations for
    into two piles: beetles and not beetles. At the communication, defense, and/or camouflage to design
    end of the sorting time, bring the class together beetles that could actually live on earth. Tell them that they
    to share. Ask children to back up their sorting will be drawing and labeling diagrams of their beetles, and
    decisions with facts they’ve learned about beetles’ then writing about them (you may want to save the writing
    characteristics. for another session). If you have an example of a finished
    • Using a variation on Jenkins’s cut-paper collage product, show your students. Tell your students that they
    methods, have students make their own beetle may want to brainstorm the characteristics of their beetles
    pictures using painted paper that they cut and and even do a sketch before working on the final diagram.
    arrange. And don’t forget to ask them to give their beetles a name!

    A Project: Design Your Own Beetle! *Especially if you are working with very young children,
    (This project may take two or more sessions. It can be you may want to divide this work into several sessions—
    adapted for use with primary or upper grade students) one for brainstorming and sketching, one for drawing the
    diagram, one for adding color, and one or two for writing.
    Materials needed: A copy of Steve Jenkins’s The Beetle Do what makes sense for your classroom.
    Book, paper and art supplies of your choice, and writing
    materials. You may want to create an example of an Work time: As your students work, circulate among them,
    invented beetle diagram and written description, or if you offering help and suggestions as necessary.
    have done this activity with students before, use a student
    example. Share: Have your students share their beetles with a
    partner, and then bring the class together to talk about
    Background knowledge: It will be helpful if your students what they noticed when they were designing their own
    have had several experiences with Steve Jenkins’s book beetles.
    so that they are familiar with information about the parts
    and adaptations of beetles. You may want to have recorded
    some of this information in chart form so that children can
    refer to it as they work.

    Setup: Gather your students together in your class’s


    meeting place. Have available a copy of The Beetle Book; A Guide for Discussion
    examples of the paper and materials children will be using and Classroom Use
    to design, draw, and write about their beetles; and your by Zoe Ryder White
    sample beetle pictures and writing.

    Houghton Mifflin Books for Children • www.hmhbooks.com

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