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Title of Text: Where Is My Continent
Author/Illustrator: Robin Nelson GRL: J Series: First Step Nonfiction Genre: Nonfiction, Where Am I Engage
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Standard: Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. Lesson Objectives: To identify the main topic and retell key details of the text, to use questioning, and compare and contrast Comprehension Strategy: Questioning Skill: Compare and Contrast Fluency: Appropriate Speed Academic Vocabulary: explain or research the meanings of the words below. Discuss the morphology of the words: suffixes, taking a root word and adding to it to change the meaning of the word. Have students talk about the meaning of each word, using antonyms, synonyms and situations where each word can be used correctly. a. continent b. countries c. globe d. map e. plains Before Reading: ENGAGE! THINK! 1. Build Background Knowledge a. Let’s look at the front and back cover. What do you know about this topic? b. What would you like to learn about your continent? c. What is a continent? d. Do you know how many continents we have? What are their names? e. What is the name of your continent? 2. Skill Introduction: a. Compare and Contrast ‐ compare and contrast the picture of your continent to your country 3. Strategy Introduction: a. Questioning – as we read, I would like for you to consider questions like what is a continent. Do people live on all the continents? What are continents surrounded by? 4. Fluency: Appropriate Speed – We will be working on reading at an appropriate speed with this book. Going too fast will cause you to lose the meaning of the content. Standard ‐ We will be working on identifying the main topic and retell key details of the text. Copyright © 2012 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. Lerner Digital™ and Lerner eSource™ are trademarks of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved. www.lernerbooks.com During Reading: Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late! Check for Understanding (Stop Midway through the Book) 1.
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3. Where can you find pictures of the continents? 4. What is the name of our continent? 5.
Tell me about a part you didn’t understand? Turn and Talk: how is using the strategy of questioning helpful in your reading? Standard: What is the main topic of this text? Tell me two details about continents that you have read so far?
After Reading: EVALUATE! 1. What is the most important thing to remember from this book? What are the details that can help you remember this? 2. What did you learn? 3. What more do you want to learn about our continent? 4. What other countries are in North America? 5.
Standard: What are the names of the oceans on each side of our continent? 6.
Standard: Where can your home be on our continent? (mountains, plains etc) 7. Academic Vocabulary: Find the seven continents on page 18 and 19. Then, locate them either on another map or globe. Look at the glossary and review the meaning of each of the words. Write one sentence together using as many words as possible. (For example: I see three big countries on the continent of North American on the map and globe.) Writing Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure. Task: Write an informative piece about your continent. Use the point in the text to help with your writing. IF/THEN: Compare and Contrast ‐ Call up two students to the front of the room and make a large venn diagram on the board. Then the students compare and contrast while I record (both have sneakers, one has blonde hair, one has brown, both have blue eyes, etc.) Then I put them into pairs and give each a large venn diagram on construction (already drawn for them). I make a list of about 6 different things that they have to discuss and then they record on the venn diagrams (favorite color, food, animal, sport, etc.). Then we share some Copyright © 2012 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. Lerner Digital™ and Lerner eSource™ are trademarks of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved. www.lernerbooks.com