Reading

1. Reading Unit: 1 Lesson: 7 Module: A Objectives: • Read and comprehend informational text. • Define and use domain-specific vocabulary. Today we will be doing a Close Reading of pages 51-53. • Essential Questions: • How does a reader consider point of view? • How does a writer use experiences, narration, and description to compel a • reader?

2. First Read Let’s explore the text! Look at the section titled “Got Silk?” Read the first paragraph. Do you have any experience with spider silk?

3. Read Aloud Routine Focus: What is the “gist” of the text? Follow along in your book as I read pages 51-53 aloud. Focus on the “key ideas” of the text, or the main Idea and how it is supported by key details. Be prepared to discuss the following questions when you are done with the reading: • Based on evidence from the text, how do spiders “put silk to best use?” • What details explain why spiders don’t get stuck in their own webs? • What questions do you have?

4. Second Read Focus on key details about spider silk and its uses. Be prepared to discuss the following questions when you are done with the reading: 1. What reasons and evidence does the author give for why birds and people use spider silk? What are some ways people might use silk? 2. How are spinnerets useful to spiders? Where on a spider’s body are spinnerets found? Describe how a spider produces silk. 3. How are crosshairs in a telescope useful? Why do you think spider silk makes good crosshairs? Have you ever used crosshairs to view something? How were they helpful? 4. In what ways have you seen spiders use silk?

5. Focused Reading Text-Based Vocabulary • extruding, p. 51 • orbs, p. 51 Vocabulary Routine: 1. Read the sentence containing the word. 2. Identify context clues about its meaning within the passage. 3. Look up the word in a dictionary and read the definition. 4. Use the word in other ways. *After we review these words, write your sentences on p. 14 in your Reader’s and Writer’s Journal.*

6. Focused Reading Small Group Discussion Routine After reading p. 53, I realize that I have seen different types of spider webs. I have seen the orb-shaped ones that look like the spokes of a wheel, and I have also seen ones with a design weaved into them. Summarize the text about spider silk and spider webs, then share your summary with the class.

7. Focused Reading Team Talk Routine On p. 51, the author states, “It’s quite a feat” as his opinion about spiders making silk. What details from the text support his opinion?

8. Language Analysis Craft and Structure Focus on rereading key words and sentences in the text to better understand the author’s particular choices and how these choices shape meaning. Complete p. 17 in your Reader’s and Writer’s Journal.

9. Language Analysis Cite Text Evidence Reread the first two paragraphs on p. 53. Focus on the details about orb webs. 1. What other orb web does the author mention to help the reader imagine what it looks like? 2. What picture comes to mind when you read “spokes of a wheel overlaid with a spiral”? 3. What details convey a sense of touch or feel?

10. Independent Reading Language Analysis Work independently to complete a web graphic organizer, filling in descriptive details about different types of spider webs from the first paragraph on p. 51. Writing in Response to Reading Reread p. 53 about different kinds of webs. If you were a spider, which kind of web would you use? Explain the reasoning for your choice. State your opinion and support it using text evidence. Reading Wrap-Up Share responses

11. Small Groups It’s time to get into our groups! Please see me if you don’t know what group you belong in.

12. Writing Informative/Explanatory Writing Objectives: • Write to develop a topic with facts and examples. W.4.2.b • Order adjectives correctly. L.4.1.d

13. Writing Informative/Explanatory Writing A topic is what a text is all about. Developing a topic is expanding on it to help the reader understand it fully. Good writers develop a topic by using reasons and evidence to support their ideas. The author of The Tarantula Scientist develops the topic of spiders by using facts, definitions, and details. Remember that a fact is something that can be proven.

14. Writing Informative/Explanatory Writing • The author develops the idea that spiders make silk by including a fact about how they do it (“Spiders don’t squirt out their silk. They pull it out, using their hind legs. . . .”). • The author defines terms that might not be familiar to readers (“Spiders make silk . . . extruding it through special spigots on their undersides called spinnerets”). • The author further develops the topic by using quotations to support points (“‘I’ve never seen so many fer-de-lance as I have seen here,’ Joep says”). • Finally, the author develops the topic through the use of examples. To support the point that people use spider silk, the author gives the example of Warren Knight Instrument Company, a company in Philadelphia that keeps two black widow spiders “on the payroll” for the purpose of spinning silk.

15. Writing Analyze the Model The writer makes several points about spiders but introduces the points one at a time and supports each one with reasons and evidence. The details the author includes help readers to visualize the topic. Read the following section:

16. Writing Analyze the Model Read the following section. Notice how the author develops the point that spiders put their silk to good use.

17. Writing Conventions Focus: Order Adjectives When two or more adjectives are used together, they go in a certain order. An adjective is a word that describes a noun or pronoun. When two or more adjectives are used together, they belong in a certain order. Adjectives that describe size come first. They are followed, in order, by adjectives describing age, shape, and color. • In the sentence “Tiny brown ants live in these hollows,” the adjective describing size comes first, then the adjective describing color. • In the phrase “The big old red farm,” the adjective describing size comes first, followed by adjectives describing age and color.

18. Writing Independent Writing Practice Read the prompt on p. 19 of the Reader’s and Writer’s Journal. Identify a characteristic of spiders that you would like to learn more about. Research your topic and write three paragraphs about it. Remember to focus on developing your ideas with facts, definitions, details, quotations, and examples. Be sure that all details included relate to your topic.