Freedom & Wilderness

1. Freedom & Wilderness 2.1.5 Inference/Prediction

2. Required Materials • Article • Pen • Hi-liter • paper

3. Independently, create a word web for “freedom.” Use any words or phrases that come to mind. Independently, create a word web for “wilderness.” Use any words or phrases that come to mind. Title Webbing

4. Line Starters: predict what will happen in the story consider “freedom” and “wilderness” too A couple of years ago…

5. Line Starters: predict what will happen in the story I was walking along…

6. Line Starters: predict what will happen in the story It was getting late…

7. Line Starters: predict what will happen in the story Twilight settled in…

8. Line Starters: predict what will happen in the story I turned around…

9. Line Starters: predict what will happen in the story I stopped. The noise stopped.

10. Line Starters: predict what will happen in the story And something else too…

11. Line Starters: predict what will happen in the story I took a second step toward…

12. Line Starters: predict what will happen in the story I turned and walked…

13. Line Starters: predict what will happen in the story I haven’t seen a …

14. Whip Around! • Quick! What’s your prediction? • Good readers constantly check and adjust their predictions as they read. Remember this when you’re doing the post-test on “Woodsong.”

15. Vocabulary in Context “Freedom and Wilderness” Record the three vocab words and their definitions on your paper.

16. Vocabulary Think Aloud • 1. “a refuge for mountain lion, javelina, a few black bear, maybe a wolf or two, a herd of whitetail deer.”

17. Vocabulary Think Aloud • 2. “I heard the poor-wills and the spotted toads beginning to sing.”

18. Vocabulary Think Aloud • 3. “I stopped and looked back-nothing; nothing but the canyon, the running water, the trees, the rocks, the willow thickets.”

19. Vocabulary Defined • Javelina – pig-like wild animal that lives in the desert southwest • Poor-wills – birds whose chirp sound like “poor-will;” lives in the desert • Willow thickets – clusters of willow shrubs

20. Setting a Purpose • When readers are confronted with new information, they sometimes change their predictions. You have new information based upon the sentences from our vocabulary activity. If you would like to add or change your prediction, do so now.” • Does anyone have a prediction to share? • Now we will read the text to see if your adjusted prediction is accurate.

21. Say Something Strategy • In partners, one partner reads the first four paragraphs until the phrase, “Twilight settled in…” • Work together to answer the following eight questions on paper: • 1. What clues does the author give us about the narrator’s feelings concerning the upcoming nightfall? • 2. What can you infer about the narrator? What clues in the text lead you to that conclusion?

22. Say Something Strategy • The other partner will read aloud until the phrase, “And something else too…” • 3. What is the narrator feeling as he stands alone in the near dark? What clues in the text lead you to that conclusion? • 4. Why do you think the author feels fear, yet at the same time, knows there is nothing to fear?

23. Say Something Strategy • The first partner will read again until the phrase, “I haven’t seen a mountain lion since…” • 5. Why do you think the narrator called, “Here kitty, kitty” to the mountain lion? • 6. What kind of connection do you think the mountain lion and the narrator made that evening? What clues in the text lead you to that conclusion?

24. Say Something Strategy • The second partner will read the rest of the article. • 7. What is the author’s message in this story? Support your ideas with information from the text. • 8. What can a mountain lion teach us? Support your ideas with information from the text.

25. Question the AuthorSay Something Strategy • Purpose: encourage active reading. Reader uses context clues to make inferences. • Inference: a combination of the reader’s prior knowledge and clues given by the author. The reader comes to a conclusion that isn’t directly stated in the text.

26. Say Something! • What were your answers? • What was the author’s purpose for writing this article? • What are some themes of this article?

27. Post-reading • This article if from a book entitled Freedom and Wilderness. • If the author were going to give this passage another title, what might it be? What in the text supports this choice? Consider: what was the author’s purpose? Write an extended response to these questions.