Title of Text: The Statue of Liberty
Author/Illustrator: Jill Braithwaite GRL: J Series: Lightning Bolt Genre: Nonfiction, Social Studies Standard: Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text. Lesson Objectives: Make connection between historical events, learn about a statue such as when it was built, for what purpose and how it was build, to draw conclusions and infer what you read, and use cause and effect Comprehension Strategy: Inferring Skill: Cause and Effect Fluency: Accuracy 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. immigrant b. statue c. harbor d. ferryboat e. copper 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 the Statue of Liberty? c. Whose idea was the Statue of Liberty? d. In what chapter can you find out how workers put the Statue of Liberty together? 2. Skill Introduction: a. Cause and Effect – The teacher does not come to school. Why? Have the students tell you reasons why the teacher might not able to be a school. Discuss what was the cause and what was the effect. 3. Strategy Introduction: a. Inferring – If the teacher is not at school, what would we infer? Inferring is drawing a conclusion about something. 4. Fluency: Read page 5 accurately. Ask the students what you did well. Then read it inaccurately. Talk about what you could have done better. Standard ‐ Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text. We will be working on is making a connection between things that took place in history. 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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Tell me about a part you didn’t understand? Turn and Talk: how is using the strategy of inferring helpful in your reading? Turn to page 14. What would you infer about this picture? Go to page 16. Did the statue get built? 3. How did they transport the statue from France to the United States? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. 4.
Standard: Who became friends of the United States and helped them win the war for freedom from British? (France) What gift did they gave the United States?(Statue of Liberty) Where was it built? (Paris, France) After it was built, how did they get it to the United States? 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 the Statue of Liberty? 4. Cause and Effect –The statue was sent to the United States in 214 crates. What is the cause? 5.
Standard: Use the table of contents to connect the historical events that took place in building the Statue of Liberty. Go back into the text to find the evidence. 6.
Standard: Think about the workers. What were some of the challenges they faced. How would it be different today? 7. Academic Vocabulary: harbor: What are other meanings for the word? Writing Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section. Task: Write the sequence of events that took place in building the Statue of Liberty and bringing it to the United States. Use the what, when, where, how and why questions to write your piece. Use the points above to help you. IF/THEN: Inferring – If you were getting ready to run a race and your shoe was untied, what can you infer will happen?
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