Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Week 3 Day 2

8:30 -9:15
Idiom of the Day
Idiom: An expression whose meaning cannot be predicted from the usual meanings of its constituent elements.
Strong readers can read idioms accurately.
Strong reader can use , literal, metaphorical, inference and connections to understand idioms.

"Run circles around him"



Example: Nefi is much better at soccer than Dejon he ran circles around her at the soccer game last week.
Apply it to something new









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Eye on Idioms
Complete the idiom

8:30-9:15

Cause and effect

Review games

Each group create a multi flow map for the following events

The girl is always hungry

The dog ran away.

The boy broke his arm.

The Toy car was broken.

I got a new toy.

Use this sentence frame to guide your speaking.

Because ________________,(event)___________________.

Due to_______________, __________________________
and a result ______________________________________
so _____________________________________________
Therefore________________________________________.

Conga line
Share out sentence frames








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Guitar Sound Clips

and
Happy Sound Clips


Reading and Writing 9:15- 10:15


Read Pokemon Story and model how to create multi flow map
Cut and glue parts of the story into a multi flow map








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Writing

Read aloud your Flow map about a place you know about.
We are listening for
Appropriate Use of idioms
Transition words
Dialog to add interest
Details to add interest and support
Complete sentences
Asking questions to readers
Compare and contrast

Turn it into a paragraph
turn it into your presentation

Test Prep for Reading Comprehension

Passages


Question to ask: What can be inferred from the dialogue in the passage?
Prior knowledge + text in passage = inferance ( building meaning/comprehension)

Use descriptions of body language
feelings
behavior
Example: What does the teacher infer when you do not do your homework?

What does the word mean, to define vocabulary, ( sometimes the author uses italics to indicate a new vocabulary word)



Which of these words has three syllables?
children
flower
holiday
yellow

Use decoding skills and knowledge of academic and
social vocabulary to achieve independent reading.

Choose the word that means the
same as the underlined word in the
sentence.
Can you recall your last visit to a museum?
explain
describe
forget
remember


Teresa’s Visit
Teresa had never visited a farm before. When she
got off the school bus with her class, she was as
curious as a kitten. The first thing she noticed was
the smell. It didn’t smell anything like the city. The
smells of clean hay mixed with the smells of sheep
wool and goat hair. Teresa heard the horse in the
barn. She heard the rooster crowing near the fence.
Teresa thought the farm was the most wonderful
place in the world. She closed her eyes to
remember all the smells and sounds.
She wanted to tell her mother all the
details when she got home. “Teresa,”
her teacher called. It was time to join
the others at the barn.
1. Where does this story take place?
a on a farm
b in a city
c on a bus
d at a school

2. After arriving at the farm, the first thing
Teresa noticed was the
a rooster.
b horse.
c smell.
d sounds.

3. Teresa was as “curious as a kitten.” This
means she wanted to
a see everything.
bbe very careful.
c play with the animals.
d stay near the teacher.


Choose the word that BEST
completes the sentence.
________ is your teacher?
l Who
l Why
l Whose

Writ a sentence to describe this picture

who did what where when


Read Aloud 10:45-11:00
Stephanie's Pony Tail

Book Background—Stephanie wants to have her own unique hairstyle but to her chagrin, everyone at her school tries to copy her. Find out how she tries to solve this problem.

Ask students to predict what they think will happen. Capture student predictions on a class Circle Map. Use sentence frames for responses.

“I predict that ________.”( post its)

Read the story.


Discuss the predictions and if they were correct

Closure
11:00- 11:15
What would happen if it snowed tomorrow?


If it snowed tomorrow, we would______________.









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1 comment:

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