READING FOCUS

Module 9: Global Guardians

Essential Question: What can people do to care for our planet?

Big Idea Words: ecology, recycle, conservation, sanctuary 

Week 2 Objectives:

-Retell the events in a text and video.

-Identify figurative language, such as sensory language, similes, metaphors, and sound devices (including assonance and alliteration).

-Recognize features of informational and argumentative text. 

-Summarize the selection using key ideas.

-Analyze the author’s use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes.

-Identify the claim, intended audience, and factual support. 

-Determine how the meaning of a word changes with the addition of a suffix. 

-Identify features of an argumentative text. 

Genre: Realistic Fiction and Informational Video/Informational-Argumentative Text 

Monday:

-Introduce vocabulary skills and review words

-Anchor Skill: Retell

-Build Background

-Read: On Sea Turtle Patrol

Tuesday:

-Review vocabulary and interactive practice

-Know It, Show It vocabulary practice 

-Anchor Skill: Figurative Language

-Build Background  

-Read: How Can We Reduce Household Waste?

Wednesday:

-Vocabulary Review

-Anchor Skill: Text and Graphic Features

-Buddy Read: How Can We Reduce Household Waste?

Thursday:

-Anchor Skill: Ideas and Support

-Suffixes: -ful, -ous, -less

-Story Quiz: How Can We Reduce Household Waste?

Friday: 

-Module 9: Week 2 Assessment 

Small-Groups: (Reading Log)

-Vocabulary Review/Practice

-Rigby Leveled Readers 

-Review Retell 

-I-Ready Reading Pathway

-AR read

*Critical Vocabulary: obsessed, disoriented, blunt, recruiting, appointed, stranded, estimate, decay