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 Day
• Describe a penguin's life cycle.
Small Groups
• Read “Penguin Chick” pages 162-168
Reader Response
• Open for Discussion: How would you retell the
information in this selection to someone who
doesn't know much about emperor penguins?
What are the most important parts?
1. The author is like a reporter, telling you about
the emperor penguins as if you and she were
there in Antarctica. Look back at page 156. Read
the page aloud as if you are an on-the-scene
reporter.
2. Look back at page 163. What details support the
idea that the penguin father and mother take
care of the chick?
3. Did you create a graphic organizer to help you
as you read? If so, tell how it helped you. If not,
what kind of graphic organizer could you have
used? Tell why.
4. This story is about penguin chicks. If you wrote
a paragraph about barnyard chicks, which
words from the Words to Know list could you
use? Try it.
Look Back and Write
• Look back at page 158. What surprising thing do the
parent penguins do before the mother penguin leaves?
Tell why you think they do it. Use information from the
selection to write the answer.
• Example of a Top-Score Response The parents
sing before the
mother leaves to find food. The mother will be
gone for a long time.
The father has to stay warm and keep the egg
warm. They want to raise
their chick together. Maybe they sing to tell each
other they will be together again.
Test Time
• Do your BEST!
Life Cycles
The life cycle of all species of penguins is quite
similar to that of the emperor penguin. Some lay
two to three eggs, whereas the emperor penguin
lays only one. In all species of penguin, except for
the emperor penguins,
both the mother and father sit on the egg; this is
probably because the emperor penguins lay their
eggs quite far from the coast, and the female has a
longer distance to travel to the open ocean. Both
parents take care of the chick until it is able to take
care of itself; this can be anywhere from two
months to a year, depending on the species of
penguin.
Ecosystems
When we think of the food chain, we think of the
bigger animals eating the smaller animals, with the
biggest animals (humans) having no natural
predators at all.But in the Antarctic, as in every
ecosystem, all life actually depends on each other.
The smallest link in the Antarctic food chain is the
phytoplankton. Krill, small, shrimp-like organisms,
eat the phytoplankton. The larger organisms, such as
fish and some mammals, eat the krill; these
organisms are in turn eaten by even larger predators
(except for whales, whose only predators are human).
If one animal is affected, all these organisms are
affected, resulting in the death of some and the
over-population of others.
Fluency
• I will read aloud p. 160. Notice that I
read with accuracy and appropriate
pace.
• We will practice as a class by doing
three choral readings.
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 3
Grammar
5. A father Penguin cares for a egg.
A father penguin cares for an egg.
6. The father wont leave even thogh he
is hungry.
The father won’t leave even though
he is hungry.
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.
Penguin Chick
Day 2
Spelling
Objective:
Spell words with syllable
patterns V/CV and VC/V.
Dividing Words into Syllables
• The vowel sound in the first syllable of a
word can be a clue as to how the word is
divided.
• Words with a long vowel sound in
the first syllable should be divided
after the vowel.
• Words with a short vowel sound should
be divided after the consonant.
Frequently misspelled words
• favorite
• before
• pretty
Spelling Paragraphs
• Write a paragraph describing a place
or an event. Students should use at
least four spelling words. You will
read your paragraphs aloud to
the class.