Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Core Vocabulary Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension Comprehension Lessons Introduce Words to Text Talk: Text Talk: Text Talk: Read Together: Know page: and Students bring up Students bring up Students bring up p. 158-160 Teacher Read Aloud their book and sticky their books and their books and page: T400-401 and notes from graphic organizer. graphic organizer. T398-399 yesterday. Post on Students share key Students share key chart under animal details about fish. details about group. Post on large reptiles. Post on graphic organizer. large graphic organizer. T413 Yesterday you read aloud on why an the text, Animal Is the author doing Is the author doing author might write a Groups. Let’s look at their job of telling us their job of telling us text. Did the author page 140. What how animal groups how animal groups do his/her job? How were the animal are alike and are alike and do you know? groups? (chart ) different? How do different? How do we know? we know? Introduce WHY DO YOU THINK Comprehension THE AUTHOR WROTE Using a venn page THIS TEXT? diagram, to compare and contrast the In this text, we information learned that animal students gathered groups are alike in about fish and some ways and reptiles. Record on different in some sticky notes and way. The author, place on venn James Bruchac used diagram. words (text) and many text features to give us key details about how they are alike and how they are different. Close Read Assign pages 139-156 Reread pages Reread pages Challenge: Reread How are bird and Animal Groups pages 148-149 cow alike and (amphibians) and different in the 150-152 (birds) story? Text Students record new What important key (Standards 1-3) (Standards 4-6) (Standards 7-9) learning on sticky details did the author What important key How are Amphibians Dependent notes. (2) tell us about fish? details did the and alike and Record on your author tell us about different? Record Questions graphic organizer. reptiles? Record on on the venn diagram your graphic graphic organizer. organizer.
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Core Lessons Introduce Comprehension page Vocabulary Introduce Words to Know page: and Teacher Read Aloud page: T400-401 and T398-399 T413 aloud on why an author might write a text. Did the author do his/her job? How do you know? Comprehension Text Talk: Students bring up their book and sticky notes from yesterday. Post on chart under animal group. Yesterday you read the text, Animal Groups. Let’s look at page 140. What were the animal groups? (chart ) WHY DO YOU THINK THE AUTHOR WROTE THIS TEXT? In this text, we learned that animal groups are alike in some ways and different in some way. The author, James Bruchac used words (text) and many text features to give us key details about how they are alike and how they are different. Comprehension Text Talk: Students bring up their books and graphic organizer. Students share key details about fish. Post on large graphic organizer. Is the author doing their job of telling us how animal groups are alike and different? How do we know? Comprehension Text Talk: Students bring up their books and graphic organizer. Students share key details about reptiles. Post on large graphic organizer. Is the author doing their job of telling us how animal groups are alike and different? How do we know? Using a venn diagram, to compare and contrast the information students gathered about fish and reptiles. Record on sticky notes and place on venn diagram. Comprehension Read Together: p. 158-160 Close Read Assign pages 139-156 Animal Groups Reread pages Reread pages Challenge: Reread pages 148-149 (amphibians) and 150-152 (birds) How are bird and cow alike and different in the story? Text Dependent Questions Students record new learning on sticky notes. (2) What important key details did the author tell us about fish? Record on your graphic organizer. (Standards 1-3) What important key details did the author tell us about reptiles? Record on your graphic organizer. (Standards 4-6) How are Amphibians and alike and different? Record on the venn diagram graphic organizer. (Standards 7-9)
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