25 UNIT 5: Lesson 24 25 Oral Language: Read Aloud “New Friends in the Newsroom” STANDARD V: ENVIRONMENT T242 Utah Ecosystems Turn and Talk - pg. T262 Students will understand the physical Classroom Collaboration T265 characteristics of Utah’s wetlands, forests, Speaking & Listening – T273 and deserts and identify common organisms for each environment. Anchor Text: “Owen and Mzee” Narrative Nonfiction Benchmark: “Sea Sanctuary”” Informational Utah has diverse plant and animal life Text that is adapted to and interacts in areas that can be described as wetlands, Text-Based Comprehension: forests, and deserts. The characteristics * of the wetlands, forests, and deserts Target Strategy: Analyze / Evaluate influence which plants and animals Target Skill: Compare and Contrast survive best there. Living and nonliving Weekly Tests 24.4 – 24.5 things in these areas are classified based on physical features. Vocabulary in Context: Bond, suffered, intruder, companion, enclosure, inseparable, charged, chief, exhausted, affection T244 Vocabulary Words: Vocabulary Strategies: T270 Wetlands, forest, desert, adaptation, suffix deciduous, coniferous, invertebrate, Weekly Tests 24.2 – 24.3 vertebrate, bird, amphibian, reptile, fish, Fluency: Intonation T274 mammal, insect, hibernation, migration. Cold Read student booklet p. 722 Decoding: T275 VCCCV Pattern Weekly Tests 24.6 – 24.7 Spelling: Words with VCCCV Pattern T276 Common Plants: Grammar: Commas T278 Sagebrush, pinyon, pine, Utah juniper, * spruce, fir, oak brush, quaking aspen, Weekly Tests 24.8 – 24.9 cottonwood, cattail, bulrush, prickly pear Informative Writing: T282
25 STANDARD V: ENVIRONMENT Utah Ecosystems Students will understand the physical characteristics of Utah’s wetlands, forests, and deserts and identify common organisms for each environment. Benchmark: Utah has diverse plant and animal life that is adapted to and interacts in areas that can be described as wetlands, forests, and deserts. The characteristics of the wetlands, forests, and deserts influence which plants and animals survive best there. Living and nonliving things in these areas are classified based on physical features. Vocabulary Words: Wetlands, forest, desert, adaptation, deciduous, coniferous, invertebrate, vertebrate, bird, amphibian, reptile, fish, mammal, insect, hibernation, migration. Common Plants: Sagebrush, pinyon, pine, Utah juniper, spruce, fir, oak brush, quaking aspen, cottonwood, cattail, bulrush, prickly pear 25 UNIT 5: Lesson 24 Oral Language: Read Aloud “New Friends in the Newsroom” T242 Turn and Talk - pg. T262 Classroom Collaboration T265 Speaking & Listening – T273 Anchor Text: “Owen and Mzee” Narrative Nonfiction “Sea Sanctuary”” Informational Text Text-Based Comprehension: * Target Strategy: Analyze / Evaluate Target Skill: Compare and Contrast Weekly Tests 24.4 – 24.5 Vocabulary in Context: Bond, suffered, intruder, companion, enclosure, inseparable, charged, chief, exhausted, affection T244 Vocabulary Strategies: T270 suffix Weekly Tests 24.2 – 24.3 Fluency: Intonation T274 Cold Read student booklet p. 722 Decoding: T275 VCCCV Pattern Weekly Tests 24.6 – 24.7 Spelling: Words with VCCCV Pattern T276 Grammar: Commas T278 * Weekly Tests 24.8 – 24.9 Informative Writing: T282
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