Transcript Penguin Chick •Author: Betty Tatham •Illustrator: Helen K. Davie •Genre: Expository Nonfiction •Skill: Main Idea/Details.

Penguin Chick
•Author: Betty Tatham
•Illustrator: Helen K. Davie
•Genre: Expository Nonfiction
•Skill: Main Idea/Details
Question of the Week
• How have animals adapted to solve
the problems of their environment?
Build Concept Vocabulary
This week's Concept Web of
vocabulary words relates to the
theme of animal adaptations.
Do you have any words or categories to
add?
Preview
The title of the next selection is “A
Day's Work.”
Which Concept Web words might
apply to the new selection based
on the title alone?
Let’s put a star next to these words
on the web.
Small Group
Read leveled readers.
Assess blue group.
Main Idea & Details
Remember:
Main Idea = the most important idea
Details = little bits of information that
support the main idea.
• Work in pairs to identify the main
idea and one supporting detail on
p. 161.
Main Idea
• Finding the main idea is an important tool in
helping you understand and remember what you
read.
• The topic is the subject, what the selection is all
about. The main idea is the most important idea
about the topic. The main idea can be stated in a
sentence.
• Supporting details are small pieces of information
that tell more about the main idea.
Plan for finding the Main Idea
• First, find the subject. Look for these
clues.
• The first sentence.
• Names, repeated words, or important
words.
• The title or heading above the
paragraph.
• Second, decide what the author is
saying about the subject. Ask
yourself these questions.
• What does the author say about the
subject in the first sentence?
• What does the author say about the
subject in the last sentence? What do
the details tell me about the subject?
• Third, put together the subject and
what the author is saying about it. In
your own words tell the main idea.
• Last use a simple organizer like the
one on the next slide to keep track of
what your paragraph is about.
Graphic Sources
• Graphic sources are any graphic—
charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines,
scale drawings, and so on—that
accompanies a selection. They can
strengthen our understanding of the
text.
Graphic Sources
• Look at the time line on pp. 164–165.
• What information does it contain?
• How can it help you understand the
selection better?
• Let’s create a timeline that shows the
growth of a human from 1 month to 5
years.
Context Clues
• You do not need to look up every
word that you don’t know. Be a
detective when you find a new word.
See if you can figure out what a word
means from context clues. These are
words, phrases, and sentences
around the word you don’t know.
From Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty McDoanld
At dinner that night, Allen cut his meat
into such small pieces that his father
looked over at him and said, “Perhaps you
would like to borrow my magnifying
glass? I am sure you are going to need it
to see those infinitesimal bits of meat.”
You can tell that infinitesimal means
“very, very small” from using context
clues.
Synonyms
• You can also use synonyms to help find the
meaning of unfamiliar words.
Penguin Chick
Objectives:
Define and identify common
nouns.
Define and identify proper
nouns.
Use common and proper
nouns in writing.
Become familiar with noun
assessment on high-stakes
tests.
Day 5
Grammar
9. Can birds build they're nests on ice.
Can birds build their nests on ice?
10. The mother fish for food and the father
watches the egg.
The mother fishes for food, and the
father watches the egg.
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Common and Proper Nouns
• A common noun names any person, place,
or thing.
• A proper noun names a particular person,
place, or thing.
• Proper nouns begin with capital letters. In
proper nouns of more than one word, the
first word and each important word are
capitalized. The names of days, months,
and holidays are proper nouns.
Additional Practice
• pp. 80–83 in The Grammar
and Writing Book.
Penguin Chick
Day 5
Spelling
Objective:
Spell words with syllable
patterns V/CV and VC/V.
Test Day!
Hooray