Common Core State Standard: CCSS ELA-Literacy RF.5.4a Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding I can learning target (related to your goal for the reader and the Common Core): I can use the Fab Four to guide my read and comprehension on informational texts to reach an independent and proficient reading level.
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Warm-up and reading for fluency Text and level: Text introduction and reading
Preview/text feature walk
Record Text and level: Food Chains and Webs: Level- 26-27 Opening: What do we remember about the "Fab Four?" Question, Clarify, Prediction, and
predictions
Remind to think about questions to ask andto lookfor a word(s) to clarify during reading Summarize.
Prior knowledge: Draw me a picture of one example of a food chain. "A food chain shows how plants and animals in a community are linked together by what they eat." Monday we talked about the savanna food chain, the savanna is a grassland plain located in dry areas. Preview: Today we will continue reading about food chains in the savanna food chains. Using the Fab Four, it will help us figure out further information on the savanna Predict: Before we begin reading we should always make a prediction before getting started. To help organize our predictions lets write them on a sticky note and then place the sticky note underneath the predictions box. We can use clues from the text and illustrations to help make predictions on what we will learn from the reading. Using the chart to help think of different ways to express your prediction. I predict....will learn about a different food chain that co-exist within the savanna why (thought process behind prediction): Looking at the illustration, the images of insects clues me into believing that these insects belong to a food chain as well. Now allow the student to write his or her own prediction about what they will learn from the reading, then have him explain his supporting detail from the text of illustrations on why he made his prediction. Set a purpose for reading: While you read, consider the predictions you just made and decide if you were right as well as some other important information you have learned. I will also be asking you to come up with questions and to clarify something you read as well so be prepared to do that. Direct attention towards the Fab Four Chart and point to these words. After reading discussion
Strategy use highlighted
Verify predictions
Reader talks about how he/she clarified a word (or an idea)
Write a question
Reflect on the helpfulness of the strategies
Clarify: Remember you can always receive help from the clarifying Fab Four friend. Use your imaginary magnify glass to help you figure out tricky words or ideas you don't understand. On page 18 remember when we saw the word scavenger.(write the word on a sticky note and place it underneath the clarify section on the Fab Four chart) I wasn't familiar with this word so how did I go about clarifying the word? Direct attention to the Fab
Four chart for help. Go over the other precious words in the clarify chart and review the meaning. Have the student help find the meaning of this word in the back of the book. Now what is something you needed to clarify while reading? (allow the student to write any words they need help clarifying on a sticky note) Were there any words or ideas you didn't understand? What strategies did you use to figure out this word? Encourage him to use the Fab Four chart to help think of strategies and record words that need clarifying. Question: Bring attention to the Fab Four chart question section: Remember the questions you ask should be based on what you read in the text. Some of these questions can be answered in the book ("quiz questions") while others are inferred. As you read what were questions that you came across when reading the text. I might ask...(write on a sticky note to help remember the question) How many different food chains was the vulture linked to? Show me where you would locate the answer to this. What's a why question you could ask based off what you read in this chapter?
Retell: Tell me everything you remember about the chapter you just read. Add as much detail as you can. Summarize:
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Guide student to come up with a summary statement similar to:
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(option of sticky note or paper) The savanna has various food chains. Some animals exist in more than one food chain creating a food web. For example the vulture is linked to eating birds, zebras, and lizards. Check: Does this include all the main ideas ion this section? Would somebody have a good idea about this reading based of this summary? Ask: What helped you as a reader today? Decoding development: