Objective

Procedure

Assessment

To clarify understanding by paraphrasing portions of the text.

-On overhead, write a long sentence and ask students to restate the sentence in their own words. List the responses.

-Discuss each sentence and decide which convey the meaning and ideas of the original sentence.

-Have students take out textbooks and turn to p. 376. Read the three black bullets under “paraphrasing.”

-Class participation

To use paraphrasing to help understand and organize what is being read

-Read #1 under “Write About It”

-Read “Blue Jay Takes the Heat” aloud, instructing students to think about how they would paraphrase the last sentence in the writing 

- Discuss “Write About It” together, include paraphrasing #1 on p. 151

-Have students reread selection silently and answer #’s 2,3,4 on p. 151

-Class participation

To activate prior knowledge regarding folk tales and rewards of kindness

-Discuss lessons in folk tales and rewards of kindness.

-Have students get in their groups and talk about rewards/results of kindness, gather as a class and have each group share their answers. Write the answers on the web graphic organizer

-Listen to Audio Trip (CD 4)

-Group participation

To use synonyms to determine meaning and increase vocabulary

-Review with class what to do when they come to an unfamiliar word in a text

-Read p. 378 on synonyms as a class

-Show list of words and have the class silently say the words to themselves

-Have the students read “A Fresh Start” to find out the meaning of farewells

-Re-Read the paragraph aloud to the class, and model how to figure out the meaning of farewells

-Repeat with the remainder of the vocabulary words

-Read vocabulary words using references on TE p. 378

-Hand out sheet for students to use as a study guide

-Class participation

To recognize complete subjects in sentences

-Review with class what the subject part of a sentence states. Review the difference between simple subjects and complete subjects.

-Show sentences on overhead, have students identify the complete subject in each

-Assign p. 76 after modeling #’s 1 and 11

-Completion of assignment

To spell words with “sh”, “ch”, “tch”, and “wh”

Tear our Half Chicken spelling page and fold in half.

-Give pretest, have students self-check their answers

-Spelling pretest