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Whole Group Instruction

Whole Group Instruction. Week 2 Day 3. Questions to Think About. What parts of a folktale are similar in many cultures? How do storytellers help people achieve common ground?. Context Clues. Vocabulary strategies can help you determine unfamiliar words

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Whole Group Instruction

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  1. Whole Group Instruction Week 2 Day 3

  2. Questions to Think About • What parts of a folktale are similar in many cultures? • How do storytellers help people achieve common ground?

  3. Context Clues • Vocabulary strategies can help you determine unfamiliar words • What vocabulary strategy did we cover last week? • Context clues will help you understand unfamiliar words

  4. Using Context Clues • They looked pitiful! Their uniforms were torn and their boots were full of holes. • People of many cultures tell some version of this tale. The settings and characters differ a bit, but the story is very similar. • What clues help you figure out the meaning of version?

  5. Determining Author’s Purpose • An author writes to persuade, to inform, to entertain, or to express ideas or feelings. • An author has a main purpose but they also may have a secondary purpose.

  6. Practice • I love reading folktales, legends, and myths. • Some folktales have a trickster who fools other characters in the story. • You should read this folktale about why the owl never sleeps at night. • Authors usually do not express their purpose for writing. • How would an author show their purpose for writing?

  7. Text Features

  8. Noun Suffixes • Some suffixes indicate that a word is a noun. • These suffixes may be added to a word to make it a noun or added to an existing noun to change that word’s meaning.

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