Week 26 Dragons and Dinosaurs Students need a partner,
textbooks, pencils, practice books, crayons, writing journals or
notebook paper
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(Thanks to Clare Pechon, Independence, Lousiana) for voc
slides.
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Dragons and Dinosaurs This weeks main story is titled, Dragons
and Dinosaurs. In your writing journal, sketch and label a picture
of a dragon and then sketch and label a picture of a dinosaur. YOU
HAVE ABOUT 10 MINUTES TO FINISH BOTH.
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Pair and Share Turn and share your drawings with your partner.
Discuss what is the same about your drawings and what is different.
Remember to face your partner and look at your partner and at their
drawings as they talk to you.
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Nonfiction Texts Nonfiction texts give facts. In a nonfiction
text, some facts and ideas are more important that others.
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To understand nonfiction text, you need to identify the most
important ideas, or the main ideas. A lot of times, the first
sentence in a paragraph tells you the main idea for the whole
paragraph.
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Summarizing What You Read When you read, pause periodically to
summarize sections of text. Remember to look for the main ideas in
each section of text.
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Read paragraph 1 together:
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Summary:
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Read paragraph 2 together. Jot down the main points and then
work with a partner to write a summary.
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Building Background:
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Vocabulary Words
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A contraption is a strange-looking machine or device. Why might
someone stare at a contraption?
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If a creature roamed an area, it wandered around there. Which
roamed the earth in ancient times trees or dinosaurs?
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Something massive is very large and heavy. What is one massive
animal that lives in the ocean?
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If something is submerged, it is beneath the surface of a body
of water. What might you use to explore a submerged object?
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Something elegant is graceful and pleasing to look at. Where
would you find elegant furniture in a fancy hotel or in a bus
station?
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Obstacles are things that get in your way when you are going
somewhere or trying to reach a goal. Why is it dangerous to leave
obstacles on stairs?
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Something that is complicated has many parts that are connected
in ways to make it hard to understand. What is one complicated
device that some workers use?
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Something that is eerie is strange and makes people feel
afraid. How would you feel if you heard an eerie noise?
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(Thanks to Clare Pechon, Independence, Lousiana) Practice Book
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