1 / 20

Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man

absolom
Download Presentation

Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

    1. By David Adler Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man

    2. Meet the Author David Adler

    3. Predict What The Book Is About! Look at the cover on the first slide. Ask yourself: What is the cover showing me that the book might be about? Talk to you table and share your answers.

    4. Biography- a biography is a story about a person’s life written by another person. Look in this story about information as to why this person is important. Make opinions and personal judgments based on facts in the story. Summary- As you read this story, you will see how a person who has a serious illness can demonstrate true courage and be a model of hard work, dedication, and sportsmanship. Summary and Genre

    5. Strategies Good Readers Use Use Decoding/Phonics Make and Confirm Predictions Create Mental Images Self-Question Summarize-Focus Strategy Read Ahead Reread to Clarify Use Context to confirm meaning Use text structure and format Adjust reading rate

    6. Focus Strategy Summarize When you summarize, you are retelling the most important parts of the selection. By stopping regularly to summarize what you have read will make you better understand and remember important parts of a section.

    7. Focus Skill- Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots Identifying prefixes, suffixes, and roots can help you figure out unfamiliar words. Look at this word: Vision In what parts would you divide this word? What happens if I added the prefix re to the word vision? Would it change the word or would the word stay the same? Longer words are often made up of a prefix, a root word or root, and a suffix.

    8. Building Background Lou Gehrig Building Background

    9. A little background on Lou Lou Gehrig The farewell speech “The Pride of the Yankees”

    10. Vocabulary Courageous Immigrants Salary Tremendous Appreciation Valuable Modest Sportsmanship

    11. Courageous Courageous Cour-age-ous Adjective Brave

    12. Immigrants Im-mi-grants Noun People who go to a country to live in it Remembering Ellis Island

    13. Salary Sa-la-ry Noun Money paid at regular times to a worker.

    14. Tremendous Tre-men-dous Adjective Very Great or Large

    15. Appreciation Ap-pre-ci-a-tion Noun Showing that one recognizes the value of a person or thing

    16. Valuable Val-u-a-ble Adjective Worth a lot

    17. Modest Mod-est adjective Humble, not a show off

    18. Sportsmanship Sports-man-ship noun Playing fair and showing respect for others.

    19. Vocabulary Slap Tell a vocabulary word out loud to the class. As a table group give them ten seconds to come up with a definition When you call out “Slap” the table that slaps in first will have an opportunity to give the definition. Give teams a point for correct definitions. Give other teams opportunity to slap in again if team gives incorrect response Repeat for all vocabulary words

    20. While you read Fill out this KWL Chart On Lou Gehrig

    21. After You Read Check This Out! Vocabulary Practice Jumble Web Field Trip- Batter Up! E-Word Game Book Review The Luckiest Man Alive Lou Gehrig Biography on Wikipedia Test Tutor-Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots Ideas for good writers-personal narratives

More Related