Tick-Tock
CHALLENGING WORDS
duckegg
Hip-O
hug
look
mom
pal
tick
tock
will
SUMMARY
Hip-O and Duck find a big egg. Duck decides to sit on the egg. The egg begins to crack open. Out comes Tick-Tock who thinks Hip-O is his mom.--- Conversation Questions---
(1) / Share what the story was about.(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / What was your favorite part?
(2) / Suppose you found an egg. What would you do with it?
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Have you ever found an egg before?
(3) / Imagine how it would feel to crack out of an egg.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Do you think the dinosaur was happy to be out of the egg?
(4) / Tell about a time that you were lost and away from you mother or father.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / How did you find your way back?
(5) / Explain the word "hatch".
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Name something that hatches from an egg.
(6) / Recall the two characters that found something in the story.
(Answer) / Hip-O and Duck.
(Follow Up) / Were Hip-O and Duck friends? (Yes).
(7) / Remember what they found in the story.
(Answer) / An egg.
(Follow Up) / Name something unusual that you have found before.
(8) / Find whether the egg hatched.
(Answer) / Yes.
(Follow Up) / How did the egg hatch? (Dick sat on it.)
(9) / Tell who Tick-Tock was looking for.
(Answer) / His mother.
(Follow Up) / Did he find her? (Yes).
(10) / Look what Tick-Tock's mom gave to Tick-Tock, Hip-o and Duck.
(Answer) / Hugs.
(Follow Up) / Do you like to receive hugs?
Activities
1. / Draw an egg. Then write sentences about what will hatch from it.
2. / Make a list of animals that hatch from eggs.
3. / Draw the baby dinosaur and his mother. Then write a sentence about it.
4. / Create a missing person's poster for Tick-Tock's lost mother.
Introductions
1. / Have a picture of an animal egg. Have student name some animals that hatch from eggs. Say today in our story, we read about Hip-O and Duck who find an egg. Let's read and see what hatches from the egg.2. / Have pictures of babies. Ask student how a baby knows whom it's mother and father is when it is born. Ask if they think a baby can recognize its parents. Say today in our story, we read about baby dinosaur who is looking for his mom.
3. / Have a picture of an elephant, duck and an egg. Ask student what would happen if an elephant and duck found an egg. How would they find the mother? Say today in our story we read about a lost egg.
Book Title: Tick-Tock
Author: Sandra Carlton / Illustrator: Mitchell RoseISBN: 1-887942-33-5 / # of Text Pages: 11 AR: 1.2
Building Oral Vocabulary
2 / pal / 11 / hug
Prediction Questions
3 / Where could the egg have come from?
5 / Will the egg hatch with Duck sitting on it?
9 / Will Tick-Tock be able to find his mom?