Inventing the Future
Inventing the Future
Question of the Week: How do inventions happen?
Inventor Links: http://www.american-inventor.com/inventor-links.aspx
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: Biography
- Author's Purpose
- authors usually write to persuade, inform, express ideas or feelings, or entertain
- as you preview/before you read, try to predict the author's purpose
- during you read, look for clues to the purpose
- after you read, ask yourself, did the author meet that purpose and how?
- Author's Purpose PPT: authorstream author's purpose ppt
- Author's Purpose PPT cat: authorstream author's purpose cat ppt
- Author's Purpose practice worksheet: ereading worksheet author's purpose
- Author's Purpose practice worksheet answers: ereading author's purpose answers
- Games:
Rags to Riches: http://www.quia.com/rr/571433.html
Battleship: http://www.quia.com/ba/72070.html
- Monitor and Clarify
-good readers make sure they understand what they are reading
- if you are not sure you understand the text, stop to clarify what you have just read
- to monitor and clarify:
1) use background knowledge
2) try different strategies: ask questions, reread, or use text features and illustrations
3) remember to ask yourself - do I understand what I am reading?, what doesn't make sense?, and what strategies can I use?
- Prefixes re-, pro-, and trans-
- word structure
- prefix is a word part that is added to the beginning of a base, or root, word
- prefix changes the base word's meaning
- come across an unfamiliar word with a prefix, knowing the meaning of prefix can help you figure out the word
- re- means again
- pro- means forth or forward
- trans- means across, beyond, or through
- Appropriate Phrasing:
- group words together as you read, using sentence's punctuation as a guide
- pause briefly at a comma
- pause for a longer time at a dash, colon, or semicolon
- come to a full stop at a period, question mark, or exclamation point
- Listening and Speaking - Informational Speech
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