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Rate the words as you come in. Do
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Letters Home from Yosemite
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Letters Home from Yosemite
Lisa Halvorsen visits Yosemite National Park and write short postcard blurbs about her adventure. She covers the history of park, its flora and fauna, and some geology as well.
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Reading Goal
This week you will identify main ideas in the text using supporting details.
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Why do we read?
•To be informed•To follow directions•To be entertained
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We will be doing…
• Fluency• Adventures in Writing• Student Test• Team Score Sheets• During the day, put your scores on the Team
Score Sheets• Let me assign numbered heads!
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Team Cooperation GoalComplete tasks
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Title: Letters Home from Yosemite
Reading Goal: Main Idea and supporting details
Team Cooperation Goal: Completing TasksGenre: ExpositoryAuthor: Lisa Halvorsen
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scenery
Outdoor views
The scenery at the top of theMountain was amazing withall of the outdoor views.
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wilderness
Land where no people live
Sometimes bearsCome out of the Wilderness and take food from ourtrash cans.
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preserve
Keep safe
I found an Indian Arrowhead in the groundand Dad told me to preserve it.
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graze
Blend
“Horses and cows graze,not people,” the baby’sMother Said when he tried to eat grass.
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swooping
Rushing down
At the beach seagullswere swooping downTo steal our Frenchfries.
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precious
Costly
Jeremy accidentlyBroke his grandmother’sprecious antique clock.
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Review Vocabulary with Partner
Can you say it?Can you define it?Can you say it in a sentence?
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Vocabulary Vault
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Main Idea and Supporting Details
TPSWhat is your favorite TV show?
Talk about who the main characters are.What time is it on?
What channel is it on?
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Reading Goal
Main ideaWhat your favorite show is.
Supporting detailsTime, characters, channel
Today you will be looking for main idea and supporting details.
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Reading Goal
What important information is the author trying to tell me?
What is the passage about?
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Trees aren’t just beautiful, big plants. Trees take the gases we breathe out and turn them into oxygen for us. Without oxygen we can’t live. They provide shad when it is hot. They keep the soil from washing away when it rains so other plants have a place to grow. Trees also provide food and shelter for birds, bugs, and other animals. We use them for fuel, for paper, and for wood to build things too.
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Mickey Mantle was the greatest baseball player in history. He took the New York
Yankees to the World Series twelve times in eighteen years. The switch hitter was
signed to the team right out of high school. He made the jersey #7 famous with his
huge home runs. He still holds the record for being the only person to hit a ball over
the left field bleachers at Griffith Stadium in a regular season game in its thirty-two year
history. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame on August 12, 1974. He was the
best ballplayer that ever lived.
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From reading that passage I know that the author is a big Mickey Mantle fan. It is
important for me, as a reader to figure out what are the real facts and the opinions. I know that a fact is something I can check.
I also know that opinions are what the author thinks. I can verify that Mickey Mantle was a member of the New York
Yankees, so that is a fact!
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Model, Think aloud.
What is the passage about?What does the author want me to
know about?The author wants me to know that trees aren’t just really pretty, big plants, but that they serve many purposes. They are necessary, because without trees many other plants and animals would die, including humans. The
main idea of this passage is that trees are very important to life on the planet earth.
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Letters Home from Yosemite
• This week you will pay close attention to the main idea of each section.
• You will be reading an expository text.• You will be using the SQRRRL process
– Survey, Question, Read and restate, Review, and learn
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Plants Bite BackRichard Platt
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Flying Aces
I wonder what type of plants
eat flies?
Plants BiteBack!
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Letters Home from Yosemite
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Vocabulary- Say It!glacier
impressivenaturalistpreserve
slopesspecies
wilderness
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More Words to Knowaltitudes
formationsreservoir
earthquakeeruptionsvolcano
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glaciera great mass of ice
moving very slowly down a mountain or along a valley
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naturalista person who studies living things
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impressiveable to have a strong effect on the mind or feelings
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preserveto keep from harm or change; protect
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speciesa set of related living things that share certain characteristic and that can be interbred
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slopesand that goes up and down at an angle
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wildernessa wild region with few or no people living in it
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earthquakea shaking or shifting motion of Earth’s surface. It is caused by the sudden breaking of masses of rock along a fault.
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eruptionsacts or processes of bursting or throwing forth
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volcanoopening in Earth’s crust through which steam, ashes, and lava are forced out in periods of activity
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altitudesheights about Earth’s surface
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reservoira place where water is collected and stored for use
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Preview the book
• What is one questions you have after previewing the book?
• Write this question in the space provided on your tree map.
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Letters Home from Yosemit
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Team Talk Questions
1. Why do you think 3.5 million people visit Yosemite every year?
2. How did Yosemite become a national park?3. Which of the following is the main idea of the
first part of Letters Home from Yosemite?4. What can you conclude about Yosemite
National Park from the Indian word yo’hem’iteh? Explain.
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Partner Read- 15 minutesPut 2 sticky notes on words that are new or
unfamiliar to youRead and restate pages 118-120Discuss with team words you clarified Find vocabulary words
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Tree Map
• Decide as a group what the main idea was for each section
• Provide at least 3 details to support your main idea
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Team Discussion-15minutes
• Discuss answers to team talk questions• Team Talk procedures will be up!• Write answers to question 2 and 4
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#1Reads the Question
#2Answers the
Question
#3Agrees or disagrees with evidence from
the text
#4Summarizes what
the groups discussed
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Class Discussion
• What words did your group clarify?
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Writing Adventures- 15 min
Imagine you are visiting Yosemite National Park. Write a postcard to your friend telling him or
her what kinds of things you saw and did.
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Scoring Guide
You answer the question 25 pointsYour answer explains or describeswith at least two details 25 pointsYour answer makes sense and hasPart of the question in it 20 pointsYour answer is written in complete,correct sentences 20 pointsYour writing has correct capitalizationand punctuation 10 points
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Vocabulary Practice-10 min“We’ve got to preserve all of these things so that your
grandchildren can see them too,” Jenna’s grandfather told her. They were walking in the wilderness, in a large forest on the side of the mountain. Jenna agreed with her grandfather because the scenery was lovely and included a view over a long valley, with trees and grasslands and a sparkling blue lake.wilderness
a.Keep quietb.Keep apartc.Keep upd.Keep safe
Wildernessa.Land where people lvieb.Land where people visitc.Land where people god.Land where no people live
Scenerya.Seen outdoorsb.Outdoor viewsc.Views out backd.Outside shows
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Fluency – 5 min
• Page 118
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Fluency Rubric
100 points ExpressivenessSmoothnessRate and correctness
90 points SmoothnessRate and correctness
80 points Rate and correctness70 points Correctness