Transcript Coyote School News

Coyote School News
Written and Illustrated by:
Joan Sandin
Meet the Author
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Vocabulary Definitions
Vocabulary Sentences
Additional Resources
Study Skills
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Genre: Historical Fiction
Comprehension Skill: Draw Conclusions
Comprehension Strategy: Prior Knowledge
Comprehension Review Skill: Setting
Vocabulary: Dictionary/Glossary
Genre: Historical Fiction
• Historical Fiction is set in the
past. It is a story in which some
of the details are factual but in
which others are made up or
are loosely based on history.
Look for the factual details as
you read.
Summary
Ramon Ernesto Ramirez grew
up on a ranch in the
southwestern United States in
the 1930’s. His life was the
same as ours in some ways.
He went to school every day, he had to
do chore before he could play, and he
celebrated holidays with his family. But
his life was different, too. Because he
lived on a ranch, he helped round up
and brand the cattle.
Comprehension Skill Review: Setting
•Setting is the time and place in
which a story occurs.
•Sometimes the setting is important
to the lot of a story. At other times, the
setting is only background.
•Sometimes pictures show the setting,
and sometimes you have to imagine it.
•Details the author has written can help
you see, hear, feel, and smell what it is
like to be there.
Day 1 - Question of the Week
•How can we work
together to achieve our
goal?
Vocabulary - Say It
•spurs
•coyote
•dudes
•roundup
•bawling
More Words to Know
mesquite
promote
convince
energetic
offers
Comprehension Strategy – Prior Knowledge
Background CD – Life on a Cattle Ranch
• Good readers use what they know to help
them understand what they read. They try to
connect it to what they already know. They
think about whether they have ever seen or
experienced what they are reading about.
This helps understand the new information.
• Let’s practice what we know about life on a
ranch.
Play
Life On a Ranch
People
Work
LISTEN TO THE STORY
Comprehension Skill Tested –Draw
Conclusions
• When you draw conclusions, you
use details and what you already
know to form opinions or make
decisions about characters and
events.
1.Tornadoes sometimes
sweep, through the
western states?
2. They can blow. The
rooves off houses.
Singular and Plural Nouns
singular
plural
To change most singular nouns to plural
nouns, add s
chair
cat
rock
chairs
cats
rocks
For nouns ending in sh, ch, s, x,
add es
brush
church
grass
box
brushes churches grasses boxes
Spelling Words
Irregular Plurals
• loaves
• hoofs
• tornadoes
• banjos
• patios
beliefs
cuffs
sheep
radios
moose
Spelling Words
Irregular Plurals
• halves
• roofs
• cliffs
• leaves
• lives
themselves
potatoes
teeth
videos
sheep
CHALLENGE
• portfolios
• embargoes
• handkerchiefs
• calves
• lassoes
Day 2 - Question of the Day
•What work must be
done on a ranch?
Vocabulary Strategy
Dictionary / Glossary
• Some words have more than one
meaning.
• Sometimes readers need to check
a dictionary or glossary to find
the meaning that makes sense for
the sentence.
Vocabulary Strategy
Dictionary / Glossary
• The dark, or bold, words defined
are called entry words.
• The entry word may not match the
word in the selection exactly.
• Entry words are often are words
without endings, prefixes, or
suffixes.
Let’s use a dictionary to define thee words
from the story:
Word in Story
promoted
nagging
branded
perfectly
wrestled
Entry word and meaning
spurs
metal points or pointed wheels,
worn on a rider’s boot heels for
urging a horse on
coyote
a small, wolf-like
mammal living in many
parts of North America
dudes
people raised in the city,
especially easterners who
vacation on a ranch
roundup
the act of driving or bringing cattle
together from long distances
bawling
 crying out in a noisy
way
mesquite
any of several trees or bushes
common in southwestern US and
Mexico, which often grown in dense
clumps or thickets
promoted
raised in rank, condition, or
importance
convince
to make someone feel sure;
cause to believe; persuade by
argument or proof
energetic
full of energy; active;
vigorous
offers
to hold out to be taken or
refused; to be willing if
another approves
Weekly Fluency Check-Emotion
● Read aloud “A Big-City Dream” on p. 162m.
Explain that you will express Luz’s emotions
by changing your pacing and tone of voice.
Point out reading with emotion makes
dialogue more interesting
● Read aloud Pg. 172,paragraphs 2-3. Have
students notice how your pitch and tone
changes to express feelings.
3. We saw cows, horsies,
sheeps, chickens, and pigs
on the ranch.
4. There were to many
cows two count.
Most nouns become plural by
adding “s”.
boy
book
books
desk
school
boys
schools
desks
Nouns that end in “ch”, “sh”, “x”,
add “es”.
bush
bushes
box
boxes
church
churches
Nouns that end in a consonant letter
and “y”, drop the “y” and add “ies”.
sky
skies
puppy
puppies
donkeys
donkey
key
keys
GROUP WORK
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Readers & WB 64
Spelling- Day 2 WS 26 Irregular Plurals
Language Arts- Day 2 WB 25
Tri-Fold Section 2
SmartBoard- Vocabulary Practice
Day 3 - Question of the Day
• How do all the children
contribute to Coyote News?
Review Questions
1. Why do the students like Miss
Byers?
2. How are Monchi and Miss Byers
alike?
3. How is Tucson different from
Monchi’s community?
4. Why is it difficult for Monchi to
choose between the Attendance
Award and the roundup?
Review Questions
5. Tell something about the setting of
this story in both time and place.
6. Why does the author use pages
from the Coyote News in the story?
7. How did Miss Byers help students
appreciate their culture?
8. How do you know school is
important to the Ramirez family?
Guests on the
ranch are called
dudes.
Guests on the
ranch are called
dudes.
We went with the
cowhands on a
roundup.
We went with the
cowhands on a
roundup.
With just a touch
of the spurs, a
horse moves
faster.
With just a touch
of the spurs, a
horse moves
faster.
A coyote was
howling in the
distance.
A coyote was
howling in the
distance.
The cattle were
mooing, and the
calves were bawling.
The cattle were
mooing, and the
calves were bawling.
Edelia was promoted
to Grade Two.
Edelia was promoted
to Grade Two.
The pinata was hung
between two big
mesquite trees.
The pinata was hung
between two big
mesquite trees.
It is too much work if
nobody offers to help.
It is too much work if
nobody offers to help.
Luz was very
energetic during the
ball game.
Luz was very
energetic during the
ball game.
I’m trying so hard to
convince her to play
with us.
I’m trying so hard to
convince her to play
with us.
5. It was fun watching the
horses look after there babys.
6. The foals have long thin
legs, they run after their
motheres.
GROUP WORK
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Partner Read & WB 67-68
Spelling- Day 3 WS 27- Proofreading
Language Day3
Tri-Fold Section 3
SmartBoard- Reading Review
Day 4 - Question of the Day
• What steps
should
students
follow to
produce a
school
newspaper?
7. If I get the chance. Im
going to work on a ranch.
8. Its hard work but I know
I’d enjoy it.
Some nouns change spelling.
goose
geese
mouse men
mice
man
Some nouns do not change when
making them plural.
wheat
sheep
corn
deer
fish
GROUP WORK
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Reading Test on computers
Essay Questions
Language Arts WB 27
Tri-Fold Section 4
Essay Questions
1. What was one way that Miss Byers helped
students appreciate their culture?
2. How do you know that school is important to
the Ramirez family?
3. Why was it difficult for Monchi to choose
between earning the Perfect Attendance
Award and the roundup?
Day 5 - Question of the Week
•How can we work
together to achieve
our goal?
Research/Study Skills –
Newspaper/Newsletters
• A newspaper is a daily or weekly
publication containing world and local
news and other features.
• Newspapers are divided into sections.
Each section focuses on a subject,
such as local news, arts, or sports.
9. What great rider those
vaqueros are?
10. They can rode all day
and never get tired, I’d like
to do that.
Research/Study Skills –
Newspaper/Newsletters TE 187 L
• A newspaper has an index on or
near the front page.
• Newspapers include editorial
pages that express opinions on
current events.
Research/Study Skills –
Newspaper/Newsletters
• A newsletter is a brief publication from
a group that contains news of interest to
the group’s members.
• Newspaper and newsletter articles are
identified with headlines and may
include illustrations or photographs
with captions.
Group Work
• Reading WB 69-70
• Language Day 5
• Tri-Fold Section 5
• Writing Assignment
• SmartBoard- Plural Nouns
Guess the Setting
Writing Assignment-Optional
Use at least five spelling words to
write one-sentence news bulletins
that could appear as a crawl at the
bottom of the screen during a
television show.
Additional Resources
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Coyote School Site
Vocabulary Cards
Lesson Plan
Interactive Arizona Map
Vocabulary Practice
Plural Nouns
Guess the Setting
Reading Review
•Quia: Singular & Plural Nouns
•Quia: Plural Nouns -s, -es, or –ves
•Important & Unimportant Details Study
Zone
•BrainPop: Show Not Tell
•BrainPop: Online Sources
•Dictionaries Study Zone
•Be a Critical Reader - TV411
•Drawing Conclusions Study Zone
•BrainPop: Reading a Newspaper
•Taking Notes - TV411
•Quia: Fiction or Nonfiction
•Alliteration, Rhyme, & Rhythm
-s
-es
-ies