Into the Ice

Question of the Week: What drives people to explore harsh climates and dangerous places?

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: Narrative nonficition

Robert Peary Museum (2:48): Northward Over the Great Ice

Robert Peary(4:07): The man who conquered the North Pole

- 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: http://www.quia.com/rr/595797.html

- Important Ideas:

- in nonfiction text are often set off in different typefaces, with signal words, or by the use of other text features, such as capital letters, that can guide the reader to better understanding

- Context Clues:

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

- Appropriate Phrasing:

- group related words together to make them sound the way they would sound in natural speech

- Listening and Speaking - Analyze Media

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