Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Learning Objectives:
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• Apply reading strategy: prediction 
• Access vocabulary from context

Opening:

1. Pair up and practice reading Orally to develop your fluency with dialogue

2. Edit your dialogue for proper conventions:

• Spelling and Grammar
• Punctuation
• Capitalization

3. In your journal, respond to the following prompt:

• How is "The Southpaw" told?  What other ways can a story be told besides a series of notes?

4. Complete the quickwrite on page 99 when you finish journaling.

5. Read the background summary on #2 on page 99:

• Predict and write what might happen in the story.

Work Period:

6. Vocabulary Preview: Skim and Scan, underlining the following words on pages 100-101

• airily
• bound
• feathery
• gable
• gazed
• greedily
• glistening
• lush
• remembrance
• scope

7. Read "Morning at Green Gables".  As you read, underline additional words that require context clues or additional resources to sort out their meaning.

8. After reading, complete page 102 and 103.

Page 102: Part One - Consult a thesaurus or dictionary to provide synonyms for each underlined words.

• Use an additional word you originally underlined for #4 and its sentence from the text

Page 103: Part Two - Choose five words that YOU underlined in the text and complete all columns of the Graphic Organizer

• Guessed definition from Context
• Confirmed definition from dictionary

Closing:

9. Complete Part Three at the bottom of page 103.  

• Use as many of the new words from your reading as you can in your summary.