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Encantado

Encantado. Unit 4 Week 2 Kristi Goggans. Genre – Expository Nonfiction. Expository Nonfiction provides factual information about a topic. . Vocabulary Strategy – Multiple Meaning Words.

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Encantado

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  1. Encantado Unit 4 Week 2 Kristi Goggans

  2. Genre – Expository Nonfiction • Expository Nonfiction provides factual information about a topic.

  3. Vocabulary Strategy – Multiple Meaning Words • A multiple – meaning word is a word that has more than one meaning. For example, a story can mean “an account of what happened.” It can also mean “a lie, or falsehood.”

  4. Comprehension Skill – Compare and Contrast • To compare and contrast is to tell how two or more things are alike and different. • Clue words such as like and as show similarities. Clue words such as but, instead, and unlike show differences.

  5. Comprehension Strategy - Visualize • Good readers visualize as they read. This means they create pictures in their minds.

  6. Vocabulary Aquarium Dolphins Enchanted Flexible Glimpses Pulses Surface

  7. Aquarium • Fish tank

  8. Dolphins • Marine mammals

  9. Enchanted • Magical; charmed

  10. Flexible • Stretchable; easily bent

  11. Glimpses • Brief views

  12. Pulses • Rhythmic beats or regular, measured beats

  13. Surface • The top of the ground or body of water

  14. According to the story, why do dolphins send out sound beamsfrom their foreheads? • To talk with other dolphins that are nearby • To scare away other animals that might eat them • To help them identify the things around them

  15. According to the story, how are dolphins and submarines alike? • They can only move in shallow water. • They use sonar in the water. • They go up the Amazon River.

  16. Which detail best supports the generalization that ocean dolphins would not be able to survive in the Amazon River? • Their bodies would not bend well so they would not be able to get around the branches. • Their flippers are too small to push them against the river currents.

  17. The story said that pink dolphins can “whirl around like a Ferris wheel.” What does this mean? • They can dive straight down. • They can jump high in the air. • They can spin in a circle.

  18. Why is one part of the story called “Nightmare Dream World?” • The rainforest was both dangerous and amazing. • The rainforest had a plant that causes bad dreams. • The rainforest was only a great place for animals to live.

  19. What is a main idea of the second part of “Nightmare Dream World”? • Black tangarana ants will protect the tree that is their home. • The tangarana tree is home to the black tangarana ants. • The tangarana tree has long, oval leaves with hollow stems.

  20. What generalization can be made from the information in this story? • All of the trees in the Amazon have spines. • There are many dangers in the Amazon. • Most of the animals in the rainforest are deadly.

  21. Pink dolphins are probably difficult to study because they are hard to - • See because they swim in dark, leaf stained water • Catch because they move in different directions • Find because there are so few living in the Amazon River

  22. How are pink dolphins and ocean dolphins alike? • They use echolocation, or sonar, to find things in the water.

  23. According to the story, how are pink dolphins and people alike? • Dolphins look as different from one another as people do.

  24. In this story, why did the author speak directly to the reader? • The author wants to help the reader imagine traveling in the Amazon.

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