Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest

1. Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest Day 1

2. Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest • Author: Steve Jenkins • Genre: Expository Nonfiction • Author’s Purpose: Inform • Skill:Compare and Contrast

3. Question of the Week • Why do nature's record holders fascinate us?

4. Read Aloud: “Animal Olympics” • How do human beings compare to the animals mentioned in the selection? • Which animal wins the prize for distance swimming?

5. Mosts Concept Web • Listen to this sentence: • It has a streamlined shape, like a torpedo. It tucks its long "sail" into a slot in its back. • “Streamlined” means shaped so as to cause the least possible resistance to motionthrough air or water . Let’s add it to the web.

6. Mosts Concept Web • Listen to this sentence: • From 50 feet (15 m) or more over the water, these birds plunge headfirst to catch fish. • Plunge means to fall or move suddenly downward

7. Mosts Concept Web • Listen to this sentence: • Human weightlifters can lift more than three times their body weight while standing in one spot. • Weightlifters are people who traintheir bodies to lift heavy weights

8. Comare/ContrastAsk Questions • Objectives: • Understand compare and contrast. • Ask questions to understand and to make comparisons and contrasts.

9. Compare and Contrast • When you compare and contrast, you    tell how things are alike and different. • When you read, look for clue words that    signal comparisons and contrasts, such as like, both, different, and however.

10. Strategy: Ask Questions • Good readers ask themselves questionswhen they read. Doing this will give youa purpose for reading. As you read, youmight ask yourself, “How are these things alike? How are they different? What do I already know about these things?”

11. Kindergarteners/Third Graders

13. Rivers • Work with a partner and make a list of all of the rivers you can think of. • Let’s add some of them to the web. • Which one do you think is the longest? • Look for the answer as you read the selection.

14. Vocabulary • average • depth • deserts • outrun • peak • tides • waterfalls

15. More Words to Know • extreme • precipitation • temperature

16. average • The quantity found by dividing the sum of all the quantities by the number of quantities • 6 + 3 + 1 + 2 = 12 • 12 divided by4 = 3

17. depth • The distance from the top to the bottom

18. deserts • Dry, sandy regions without water and trees

19. outrun • To run faster than someone or something else

20. peak • The pointed top of a mountain or hill

21. tides • The rise and fall of the ocean about every twelve hours

22. waterfalls • Streams of water that fall from a high place

23. extreme • Much more than usual; very great

24. precipitation • The water that falls to the earth in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail

25. temperature • How hot or cold something is

26. We walked through the dry ______ and needed plenty of water to drink.

27. We walked through the dry deserts and needed plenty of water to drink.

28. The teacher will ________ the grades at the end of the grading period.

29. The teacher will average the grades at the end of the grading period.

30. There was a cave behind the opening to the _____________, and we enjoyed splashing in the water.

31. There was a cave behind the opening to the waterfall, and we enjoyed splashing in the water.

32. Upon climbing to the _____ of the mountain, we were breathless.

33. Upon climbing to the peak of the mountain, we were breathless.

34. The _______of the ocean are affected by the moon’s gravitational pull.

35. The tides of the ocean are affected by the moon’s gravitational pull.

36. ______ is measured with a thermometer.

37. Temperature is measured with a thermometer.

38. The shortest person will ________ the tallest person in the marathon.

39. The shortest person will outrun the tallest person in the marathon.

40. The swimmer swam to the _____ of the ocean and returned to the surface.

41. The swimmer swam to the depth of the ocean and returned to the surface.

42. Sometimes _______ circumstances prevent one from doing his best in his work.

43. Sometimes extreme circumstances prevent one from doing his best in his work.

44. There will be some form of _________ on the ground in the morning.

45. There will be some form of precipitation on the ground in the morning.

46. Watch for the word on the screen. Say the word. Clap as you spell the word.

47. temperature

48. average

49. depth

50. precipitation