Announcements and Reminders:
- You should already be signed up for your nonfiction book.
- There will be no cave time intervention in Ms. Dorsey's classroom on either of these days.
- Thursday is Mock Trial enrichment.
- On Friday there will be no cave time in Ms. Dorsey's room.
- If you need to make up work, plan to come next week to cave time.
- On Wednesday in Cave Time, we will work on external text features.
- Come if you did not receive the grade you'd like on the assignment where you looked for nonfiction text features in books -- and/or if you didn't hand in and do not have the paper from the outdoor scavenger hunt for text features.
1. Individual reading of your nonfiction books.
Receive your November Book Assessment: November Book of the Month.docx
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FYI: The climax in the action is the highest point -- the point
of greatest tension. At the point of climax, something
important changes -- usually the conflict is resolved.
2. Practice reading and writing about Informational Text. -- Individual Work.
Your
task:
o
Today you will read and respond to two
informational (?) passages.
o
You will answer comprehension questions,
including identifying the central ideas.
o
You will also write about each passage, and will
write two paragraphs that require you to use information from both
passages.
o
Stay on task and complete as much of the
assignment as you can.
Before you start,
read through these instructions:
How to Read and Respond to
Informational Text
1. Skim the
passages to see what you will be reading about.
2. Skim
through the questions you will be expected to answer. Notice how much you will need to do,
and what you need to be looking for as you read.
3. As you
read a passage, watch for the central idea and supporting details.
Ask yourself these
questions:
o What
is the topic (what is it about)?
o What
is the central idea (main idea) the author is trying to teach you about this
topic?
o What
evidence (supporting details) is the author using to prove
that his central idea is true?
4a. As you
read, underline or highlight a few
of the facts or statements that you think might help you to answer the
questions. (Psst: Too much
highlighting defeats your purpose.)
4b. Also, as
you read, make notes (annotate) in the margins or on the text. Use abbreviations and symbols: a ? for a question, CI for what you think may be a
central idea, ! by an especially
interesting piece of information, and so on.
5. Write your
answers to the questions, looking back often into the passages, rereading as
much as you need to.
6. Review your answers, making sure they are legible, and
edit for conventions including capitalization, punctuation, and
spelling. (Hint: If a word you
do not know how to spell is in the passage or in the questions, copy it from
there.)
7. When asked
to write a longer answer (as in
5a, 5b, and 6 on the last page here), answer with a central idea and supporting details for that
central idea. (Write a paragraph
or more.)
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If you were absent, when you come back pick up one of the packets for this activity, and complete it.
You can download the book of the month assignment here: November Book of the Month.docx
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