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A Symphony of Whales by: Steve Schuch. Fiction Context Clues Generalize Answer Questions. Genre: Vocabulary Strategy: Comprehension Skill: Comprehension Strategy:. Review Concept Board. Question of the day! What reasons would you have to learn another animal's language?.
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A Symphony of Whalesby: Steve Schuch Fiction Context Clues Generalize Answer Questions Genre: Vocabulary Strategy: Comprehension Skill: Comprehension Strategy:
Review Concept Board • Question of the day! • What reasons would you have to learn another animal's language?
Phonics Objectives: • Use word parts to decodewords with suffixes. • Review g, j, dge/j/; s, c/s/;c, k, ck, ch/k/; contrasthard g with soft g. • Blend and read g, j, dge/j/;s, c/s/; c, k, ck, ch/k/words and suffixes. • Apply decoding strategies:blend longer words.
Connect • judgecagelocksaucebadgeforkChrisjabcitationjuicelakegerms • We studied the sounds /j/ (g, j, dge), /s/ (c, s), and /k/ (c, k, ck, ch). • Circle all the words with /j/, draw a box around all the words with /k/, and underline all the words with /s/. Note that some words have more than one of these sounds. • In pairs, have students discuss why each letter sounds the way it does and why some letters stand for more than one sound.
Practice & Assess • suggestGenevaicicletrudgesynchronizecellulargeniuschronologicalcenturytacklejurymachine
Read words in context • Jake donated generously to the school food drive. • A chronic illness can often be treated but not cured. • Abby helped Mom trim the hedge. • The principal only had to tell the class to be quiet once. • Kate found herself in a real pickle.
Small Group Time • Read He Listens to Whales pages 376-379
FLUENCY - Partner Reading • Partners practice reading aloud the first two paragraphs on p. 366. Students should read with accuracy at an appropriate reading pace.
Sound • Underwater microphones, or hydrophones, are special microphones for underwater use. Hydrophones come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and materials, and are used for anything from underwater gas and oil exploration to listening to whales and dolphins.
Language Objectives: • Become familiar with verb tense agreement assessment on high-stakes tests.
Daily Fix-it • Yesterday the whales will appear on the beech. • Some will returned to the water safly. Yesterday the whales appeared on the beach. • Some will return to the water safely.
Standardized Test Tip • You may be asked to identify the tense of a verb in a sentence. Remember that averb that has no ending or ends with -s and has no helping verb is a present tenseverb. A verb with -ed is a past tense verb. A verb with the helping verb will is a futuretense verb. • Present: Whales swim near the boat.Past: They bumped into the side.Future: They will stay away next time.
Writing objectives: • Revise a news story that answers the questions who, what, where, when, why, and how.
Checklist • Does the news story tell about an event in time order with no wordiness? • Does the story answer the 5 Ws and how? • Are present, past, and future tenses used correctly? • Are words with the suffixes -ly, -ful, -ness, and -less spelled correctly?
Revising Tips • Support your news story by writing sentences that tell the facts without being wordy. • Use a combination of short, simple sentences and longer compound sentences. • Begin some sentences with time-order words for variety.
Spelling Objective: • Spell words with suffixes -ly, -ful, -ness,-less.
Spelling StrategyWord Endings • Make spelling words with suffixes easier for students by showing that the base word only changes its spelling when it ends in the letter y.
