Black Frontiers

Black Frontiers

Question of the Week: What does it mean to be a pioneer?

Book Online: Go to your online textbook to hear the story and/or concepts read to you and for you to practice.

Vocabulary Words:

Skills/Concepts:

- Genre: Expository text

- Listen to the story: Black Frontiers

- The American Frontier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px4WWdG6Qa8

- Cause and Effect:

- CAUSE: what makes something happen

- EFFECT: something that happens as a result of a cause

- Cause and effect test: http://www.quia.com/quiz/1552058.html

- Cause and effect information: http://www.fcatexplorer.com/media/parent/tiplister/flash/tip129a.swf

- Cause and effect quia rags to riches: http://www.quia.com/rr/595797.html

- Cause and effect quia battleship: http://www.quia.com/ba/344367.html

- Inferring:

- use background knowledge with clues in the text to come up with our own ideas about what the author is trying to present

- Inferring PPT: Make an Inference

- Inference Questions: What Can You Infer?

- Inference Questions 2: What Can You Infer #2?

- Inference game: Rags to Riches Inferences

- Context Clues:

- words or sentences around an unfamiliar word that help you figure out its meaning

- Accuracy:

- reading accurately helps you to understand what you are reading

- slow down when you come to a word you don't recognize or when you see a sentence with complicated scientific terms or numbers ahead

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Small Groups:

- leveled readers

- main selection reading

- reinforce skills/concepts

- expand the skills/concepts

- extend the skills/concepts

- independent practice

“There is more treasure in books, than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”

-Walt Disney

Contact Info:

Mrs. Gail Boe

6th Grade Teacher

gboe@newulm.k12.mn.us