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Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon

Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon. Day 1 Day 4 Day 2 Day 5 Day 3 Vocabulary Definitions Vocabulary Sentences Additional Resources. By: Sy Montgomery. Study Skills. Genre: Expository Nonfiction Comprehension Skill: Compare and Contrast Comprehension Strategy: Visualize

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Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon

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  1. Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon Day 1 Day 4 Day 2Day 5 Day 3 Vocabulary Definitions Vocabulary Sentences Additional Resources By: Sy Montgomery

  2. Study Skills • Genre: Expository Nonfiction • Comprehension Skill: Compare and Contrast • Comprehension Strategy:Visualize • Review Skill: Generalize • Vocabulary: Multi-Meaning Words

  3. Genre: Expository Nonfiction • Expository Nonfiction provides factual information about a topic.

  4. Summary One of the most mysterious animals on the planet is the pink dolphin. Meet this unique and fascinating creature as you explore the rain forest with your South American guide.

  5. Skill Review- Generalize • A generalization is a broad statement or rule that applies to many examples. • Clue words: all, most, always, usually, generally

  6. Day 1 - Question of the Week • What can explain animal behavior?

  7. Vocabulary - Say It • aquarium • surface • glimpses • dolphins • flexible • enchanted • pulses

  8. More Words to Know destination teem submerged agility endowed relationship

  9. Comprehension Strategy-Visualize • Good readers visualize as they read. • This means they create pictures in their minds. • Sensory words such as sticky and crackle can help you experience what you are reading.

  10. Listen to the Story

  11. Comprehension Skill:Compare andContrast

  12. Reading WB 163

  13. Compare and Contrast Australian Rain Forest South American Rain Forest Alike many animals live here 1.____________________________ Different scarlet macaw 4.______________________ 5.______________________ Different birds of paradise 2._____________________ 3.______________________

  14. 1. Bob paddled threw the jungel in search of the pink dolphin. 2. He gone on the trip last year with Carlos and I.

  15. Subject Pronouns

  16. Spelling WordsFinal le, al, en • frighten • tangle • mumble • oval • marble • spiral • animal • paddle • diagonal • threaten

  17. Spelling WordsFinal le, al, en • citizen • single • needle • natural • several • national • jungle • given • eleven • chicken

  18. CHALLENGE • strengthen • cubicle • knuckle • individual • three-dimensional

  19. Day 2-Question of the Day • Why do you think a pink dolphin is called encantado, or “enchanted” ?

  20. Vocabulary Skill: Multiple-Meaning Words • A multiple-meaning word is a word with more than one meaning.

  21. surface the top of the ground or soil, or of a body of water or other liquid

  22. aquarium building used for showing collections of live fish, water animals, and water plants

  23. pulses regular, measured beats

  24. any of numerous sea mammals related to the whale, but smaller. Dolphins have beaklike snouts and remarkable intelligence. dolphins

  25. glimpses short, quick views or looks

  26. enchanted delighted greatly; charmed; magical

  27. flexible easily bent; not stiff; bending without breaking; stretchable

  28. teem to be full of; abound; swarm

  29. submerged put under water; covered with water

  30. agility the ability to move quickly and easily; nimbleness

  31. relationship condition that exists between people or groups that deal with each other

  32. endowed born with; provided with some ability, quality, or talent

  33. Weekly Fluency Check -Fluency • Fluency is when you group words that go together, pausing after phrases and sentences. • This makes reading sound smooth and helps convey meaning. • Read aloud the last 4 paragraphs of pg. 428.

  34. 3. What an amazing color. That dolphin is. 4. It has long flippers and it’s body is very flexible.

  35. United Streaming Videos • Pronouns

  36. Group Work • Readers & WB 164 • Language Arts WB 65 • Spelling WB 66 • Tri-fold section 2 • Quia Game- Context Clues

  37. Context Clues- Quia Game • Game

  38. Day 3 - Question of the Day • Why do you think the pink dolphins’ behavior remains a mystery today?

  39. Review Questions • How are pink dolphins and ocean dolphins alike? • Why would ocean dolphins not be able to survive in the Amazon River? • Why was one section called “Nightmare Dream World”? • Why are pink dolphins difficult to study?

  40. Review Questions • Why do dolphins send out beams from their foreheads? • How are pink dolphins and people alike according to this selection? • How are dolphins and submarines alike? • Why does this author seem to speak directly to the reader?

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