Transcript A Symphony of Whales by: Steve Schuch Genre: Fiction Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues Comprehension Skill: Generalize Comprehension Strategy: Answer Questions.

A Symphony of Whales
by: Steve Schuch
Genre: Fiction
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues
Comprehension Skill: Generalize
Comprehension Strategy: Answer Questions
Review Concept Board
• Question of the day!
• What did Glashka's people need from the
whales and other sea animals in order to
survive?
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Phonics Objectives:
• Use word parts to decode words with
suffixes.
• Review g, j, dge/j/; s, c/s/; c, k, ck, ch/k/;
contrast hard g with soft g.
• Blend and read g, j, dge/j/; s, c/s/; c, k, ck,
ch/k/ words and suffixes.
• Apply decoding strategies:blend longer
words
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Suffixes -ly, -ful, -ness, -less
-ly
means in a ____ way
-ful means filled with
-ness means the condition of being
-less means without
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I climbed tiredly into bed and
turned off the light.
• The word with a suffix is tiredly.
• Let’s look at tiredly with out the suffix -ly.
• tired - do you know what tired means?
• Often, suffixes like -ly change how the
base word is used; for example, tiredly
describes an action; it answers the
question how.
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Modeling
• The first thing I do when I come to a word like
tiredly is break it into its word parts. I can take off
-ly and I have the word tired. I know what tired
means.In the sentence, tiredly answers the
question how. In the sentence, tiredly describes
how I climbed into bed. The suffix -ly must make
words describe how something is done.
• Watch as I blend tiredly. Now blend the word
with me.
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Practice and Assess
Let’s read the words and underline the
suffixes. You can write them on your
desk.
finally
helpless
beautiful
kindness
hopeless
helpful
quickly
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happiness
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Read words in context
• Let’s read the sentences, identify the words
with suffixes, and use the word in a
sentence.
• Her blindness did not stop her from
being able to read and write.
• The new boy from France was
friendless, so Abigail kindly asked him
to sit with her at lunch.
• It was a plentiful harvest, and we were
all thankful.
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Objectives:
• Use context clues to determine the
meaning of unfamiliar words.
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Context Clues Strategy
• Read the words and sentences around the
word you don’t know. Sometimes the
author tells you what the word means.
• If not, use the words and sentences to
predict a meaning for the word.
• Try that meaning in the sentence. Does it
make sense?
• Now let’s read page 356.
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Read “Breaking the Ice”
• Pay attention to how vocabulary is
used. Listen as I model using context
clues to determine the meaning of bay.
• MODEL The word bay is used on p. 357.
The article describes the "waterfront
village" where "villagers called the
icebreaker for help." So a bay must be a
body of water that is surrounded on many
sides by something, such as ice or land.
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Context Clues
 Have students determine the meanings of the
remaining words and explain the context clues
they used.
 Point out that context does not work with every
word. Students may have to use the glossary or
a dictionary to find the exact meaning of some
words.
 Have students reassess their usage and
definitions of vocabulary words used in their
word meaning charts.
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Challenge Activity pg. 357
Words to Write
• Look at the pictures in A Symphony of
Whales. Choose a picture to write about.
Try to use words from the Words to Know
list.
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Context Clues WB page 135
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Say It!
• anxiously
• bay
• blizzard
• channel
• chipped
• melody
• supplies
• surrounded
• symphony
More Words to
Know
neighboring
waterproof
yelping
anxiously
uneasily; with
fear of what
might happen
bay
a part of a sea or lake
surrounded by land
blizzards
blinding snowstorms with
very strong, cold winds
channel
a body of water joining two
larger bodies of water
chipped
to cut or break off a thin piece of
something
melody
a pleasing or easily
remembered series of
musical notes; tune
supplies
the food and equipment necessary for
an army exercise, camping trip, and so
on
symphony
a long, complicated musical
composition for an orchestra
Small Group Time
• Read A Symphony of Whales
pages 356-357
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FLUENCY - Choral Reading
• Listen as I read aloud p. 365. Notice the
pace I am reading—not too fast and not
too slowly. Now, you will practice as a
class,doing three choral readings of p.
365.
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Life Cycles of Animals
• Most baleen, or toothed whales, migrate
between the very cold polar regions and the
warmer tropical regions. Scientists aren't totally
certain why whales migrate, but it probably has
something to do with food. The icy waters of the
polar north are rich in plankton, the main food
source of baleen whales. The whales spend
summer in these areas, filling up on food before
winter. When the water begins to freeze over in
the early winter months, the whales migrate
south, where they mate and give birth. They
return to the polar regions in late spring.
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Revisit Concept Web
• Do you have any words to add to our
concept web?
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Language Objectives:
• Use present, past, and future tenses in
writing.
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Daily Fix-it
–Sled dogs was helpfull in
the cold climate.
Sled dogs were helpful in the cold climate.
–The dogs's owner spoke to
them quitely.
The dogs’ owner spoke to them quietly.
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Guided Practice
• Let’s review the concept of present, past,
and future verb tenses.
• Verbs can show when an action happens.
Different verb tenses have different forms.
• Many present tense verbs end in -s. You
form the past tense of many verbs by
adding -ed. You add the helping verb will
to a verb to make it a future tense verb.
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Present, past, and future verbs.
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Present, past, and future verbs.
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Writing objectives:
• Identify the characteristics of a news story.
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READING-WRITING CONNECTION
• Let’s work together to identify article facts
that tell who, where, and why.
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READING-WRITING CONNECTION
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Challenge Activity
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Modeling
• Tomorrow we will write a news story. If I
write about our town's fall festival, I need
to tell readers what it is, who plans it, why
it exists, where and when it takes place,
and how it helps the town. For example,
by writing "Main Street in Greenup will be
busy Friday to Sunday, October 10–12, as
the annual Apple Fest takes place" tells
where, when, and what.
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Spelling Objective:
• Spell words with suffixes -ly, -ful, -ness,
-less.
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Generalization about
spelling words with suffixes
• When adding the suffixes -ly, -ful, -ness, or less, the spelling of the base word does not
change unless the base word ends in y.
• Let’s add -ly to final. Finally. Notice that we
did not change the spelling of final.
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Read the words with me.
• 1. beautiful
9.
• 2. safely
10. suddenly*
• 3. kindness
11. wireless
• 4. finally*
12. quietly*
• 5. spotless
13. fairness
• 6. worthless
14. cheerful
• 7. illness
15. painful
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8. helpful
daily
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Find the pattern
• Identify the spelling words where y was
changed to i before adding the suffix.
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beautiful
9.
daily
2.
safely
10.
suddenly*
3.
kindness
11.
wireless
4.
finally*
12.
quietly*
5.
spotless
13.
fairness
6.
worthless
14.
cheerful
7.
illness
15.
painful
8.
helpful
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Let’s add an ending to the
underlined words.
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GREAT JOB!