Before Reading
• Ask How are friends different from families?
• Have students tell you what they see in the pictures.
• Have students point to an elephant, tortoise, zebra, lion.
• Ask Which picture shows a family?
• Ask Which picture shows friends?
Ask a gist question to check overall understanding of the text, eg. Why does Tut go with Elliot?
Allow students a few minutes to skim the text
• Play the audio Students listen as they read along. Play the audio a second time it necessary
• Focus on summarizing. Put students into groups of four
• Assign sections of the story to each student: meeting Tuti (paragraph 1), the zebras (paragraph
2), the lions (paragraph 4), and the elephants (paragraph 5).
• Ask each student to read his / her section.
• Tell students to close their books and, in their groups. take turns retelling the main information
from their reading section to each other, e g. (lions): Tuti and Elliot see some lions. The lions are
not Elliot's family. Tuti and Elliot are scared They run away.
• Students open their books and read the entire text to check
Discussion questions:
• Why do you think Tuti goes with Ellior? Did you ever help anyoody?
• Do you think Tuti and Elliot are friends? Why? What things da they do together?
• How does Elliott feel at the beginning of the story? How does he feel in the middle? How does
he feel by the end of the story?
• Can you think of a time you were sad and became happy?
What happened!
After Reading
• Have students look again at the story Ask What do you
think happens next in the story? Whar do Tuti and Elliot do
fogether? Will they spend time with each others familles? Will they make friends with the other
animals? What do you think?
OLYABORALIN
• Display the Talk About It! Poster to heip students with sentence frames for discussion and
expressing their ideas.
• Put students into pairs to discuss what they think happens next for Tuti and Elor.
• Have students say one thing they think Tuti and Elliot will do next:
• Pur students into small groups of three or four
• Have students discuss what fuft and Elliot might so. Ask
Whethappens next io the stery What do fufiort Eviot soy
CULTURE NOTE
Animals like Tuti and Elliot are found in national parks or game reserves in Africa, Africa has many
species of animals, such as the "big five" - elephants, lions, leopards, rhinoceros, and buffalo. This
region is also known for zebras, giraffes, and hippos. Game reserves offer endangered animals,
such as the rhino and elephant, protection from hunters, Tourists can visit the game reserves on a
"photo safari" to take pictures of the animals.
Hunting has been outlawed in most of Africa, but some game hunting, especially of the "big five",
still takes place on private land.
