*Warm up in browsing boxes
Sight Word Work Sight words: play, run, she, six, ten
Choose a couple ways to review:
-word wizard -write on whiteboards -find around the room or in text
Mark correct words on chart in front pocket with a checkmark by student’s name… 6x is a known word
Introduce book: This book is called The African Elephant it is a non-fiction book that will help us learn more about African Elephants and how African elephants are in danger. What do you already know about African Elephants? Many elephants have been hunted for their ivory tusk.
New Vocabulary: walking, grass, sticks, crack, hidden, under, falling, and pulling
*Reinforce these ideas while doing the picture
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- Get your mouth ready: Lips the Fish
- Re-read the sentence and see if it makes sense: Tryin Lion (Re-read the sentence)
- Stretch the word in the sentence: Stretchy snake
- Check the beginning, middle, and ending parts of the word?
- What is happening in the story? What is the problem? (comprehension)
Teaching Point After Reading: Select one after observing students first read through
Word Solving Strategies:
- Attend to the ending sound, some example words in the text include: falling, pulling, pulled, and walking
- Slow finger check and eye check, and make sure students are one to one matching
- Look at the visual clues, and look at the picture. Eagle Eye: look at the picture does it match what you read
- Attend to beginning, middle and ending sounds in words
- Look at the beginning of the sound Lips the Fish. Get your mouth ready.
- Re-read a page for expression (comprehension)
- Retell story the beginning-middle-ending (comprehension) *Collect Books for tomorrow’s lesson
Discussion Prompt: What happened to the Elephant? How did the elephant get out of the pit? Why are elephants in danger? Why did the elephant fall into the trap? How was the trap
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- Is that a word you know? (anchor or frequency words)
- Re-read the sentence/word and see if that makes sense? Tryin Lion
- Does the sentence/word match the pictures? (Eagle Eye)
- What happening in the story? How do you think the character felt?
- Discuss characters and their feelings? Why are African Elephants in danger?
Teaching Point After Reading: Select one after observing students first read through
Word Solving Strategies:
- Monitor
- Reread at difficulty Tryin Lion, re-read the sentence and see if that word made sense
- One-to one matching: make sure finger and eyes are on the same word
- Retell the story beginning-middle-end (comprehension)
- Get your mouth ready: Lips the fish
- Attend to the endings such as pulled and pulling
*Place book in browsing box
Discussion Prompt after reading: Why is the African elephant in danger? Do you think all elephants could pull themselves out of these pits? Do you think a small elephant could have gotten out of the trap? Why are African Elephants in danger?
Teach Sight Word: (do all procedures) Word:
In this story, the narrator is bold and takes a risk to educate someone. This short story does not include slavery. Instead, it talks about wildlife. "The Day
Author’s commonly entice readers by using complex vocabulary and extremely detailed descriptions, also known as, diction. Readers will be more engaged if they can imagine the setting and characters. Making them put themselves in the same situation. In the short stories “The Scarlet Ibis” and “The Dangerous Game” and “Harrison Bergeron” the authors use diction to engage the readers.
In the years between 1849 and 1855, thousands of people dared to take on the perilous journey to California filled with hardship, death, and disease for their chance at a “golden opportunity.” For many years, the Gold Rush has been seen as a male dominated even in history with little regard for women. However, JoAnn Levy, in They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush, attempts to debunk the assumption that the participants in the Gold Rush were exclusively male. As expressed by Levy, women played fast and loose with stereotypes of the time and assumed that if men could go, they could too.
He uses slang word fox, animal in the story. Some short and choppy sentences helps the reader to get the clear idea of the narrator thoughts. Some sentences are long and descriptive. The descriptive sentences are nicely organized which gives the reader a clear image of the story. Some similes of the story is “like a jab of intuition” when the narrator lost the key he understand very quickly what happen next with them.
For L.T. #2 I will have my students describe the main event in 2 ways using only one sentence that will retell that particular scene using the illustrations in one and use only their descriptions in the other. In L.T. #3 I will have 2 pictures of a setting and illustration in the book and the students will have to explain/ describe what is happening based on the picture. In L.T. #4 the students will describe what they think the main theme or message is of the story, the students must explain why they feel that
Short Summary of Book: This book talks about a dog and elephant that are best friends They talk about the things they do together and how they live on an elephant sanctuary. One-day Bella gets hurt and the workers find her because Tarra is standing near her. Once Bella is better they resume with their friendship and life on the sanctuary. Brief Evaluation of quality: The illustrations are accurate and correspond with the content of the story and they also show the mood of the story and the setting. The plot is very entertaining and would appeal to
Then, we have Babar the Elephant who lives a carefree life until his mother is killed by hunters sacrificing herself for the herd’s safety. As the story continues young Babar is faced with the same situation and brave like his mother risk his life to save the herd as well. Amazingly, he 's not murdered only separated from his family so and learns to survive on his own. Personally, I think it’s sad how Elephants are killed by polluters for their tusks. In King Leopold’s Ghost, he used his power to rob Africa of its natural wealth which included ivory and many other resources.
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell Have you ever looked at something or someone and started reminiscing negative comments in your head about them? What about cared what others thought of you and tried to play hero to get them to like you? George Orwell’s essay, “Shooting an Elephant”, is a great example of this scenario. This essay secretly hid three key points that most written documents may or may not pinpoint on. It explains how you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, animals should be treated just as equal as humans, and always be yourself.
Preparation is the key to successfully navigating any writing assignment. Thus far, I have found this class to be beneficial in this regard. To start, the readings that we have discussed have been very stimulating from a creative standpoint. This is important since imagination is necessary to properly convey one’s thoughts and feelings. Likewise, the responses and subsequent class discussions have further served to promote abstract and analytical thinking.
Chapter 1 and 2 1. At this point of the novel, I feel a little curious as to where the story is going to go. I must say, I am a little confused on how the animals are planning on going though with their plans. 2. I can think of ways I have felt like these animals do in the story.
Summarize the story of the chapter, "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog," in 5–8 sentences. What lessons did Dr. Perry learn from Connor and Justin? Which is more important, nature (biology) or nurture (environment)? Provide an example.
I am reading “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” by W.D Wetherell, and I am on page 5. This short story is about a boy, the narrator, that has a crush on a girl, Sheila Mant. He learns little details about her as he observes and analysis her. As the summer goes on, he finally makes the decision to ask her out on a date, soon he would face a challenge that, at that time, must have been the hardest decision he’s ever had to make. Being compelled to choose between getting the girl, or catching a bass that would have been considered the biggest catch.
In the passage, the reader will notice a tone that is serious, informational, and formal. At one point in the passage it states, “In training trials, a mahout would walk with his elephant to the single available rope end and train his animal to pick up and pull the rope by using vocal commands,” (4). This shows the author of the passage was giving out information in a formal tone because he was giving straight information about the training trials of the elephants. Unlike the passage, the article has a more engaging conversational tone. In the article it says, “Elephants know when they need to lend a helping hand- or rather trunk,” (1).
In the novel of the Call of the Wild, Buck tried to adapt to his new and difficult life. He was forced to help the men find gold; he experienced a big transformation in him. At the end, he transformed into a new and different dog. Buck went through physical, mental and environmental changes. In my essay, I talked about how Buck was like at the beginning, what he changed into, and how he was forced to adapt his new environment, and underwent these changes.
This was to help students understand that written language is meaningful, gain an understanding of text structures, and see what fluid reading looks and sounds like (Bainbridge & Heydon, 2017). The purpose of the read-aloud was also to help students work on the three receptive dimensions of language and literacy(Listening, Reading, Viewing). Along with the read-aloud, students were to bring in an artifact to share with the class. The purpose of this was to help them relate their lives to the story. When students see a connection between themselves and a character, they seem to enjoy reading more than when they do not see a connection.