Saving the Rain Forests
Saving the Rain Forests
Question of the Week: Why is it important to care about nature?
Book Online: Go to your online textbook to hear the story and/or concepts read to you and for you to practice.
Vocabulary Words:
Spelling Words:
- difficult spellings
- full list in your Reading packets
Skills/Concepts:
- Genre: Expository text
- Fact and Opinion:
- Fact: a statement that can be proved true or false
- Opinion: a statement that tells a person's thoughts, feelings, or ideas. Opinions cannot be proved true or false. Opinions may be either valid or faulty. Valid opinions are supported by facts or are stated by experts. Faulty opinions are not supported by facts, experts, or logic; they might be based on a false statement of fact.
- Important Ideas: essential ideas and supporting details in a nonfiction selection. Important Ideas include information and facts that provide clues to the author's purpose.
- Word Endings: -ed, -s:
- ed: added to verbs to make it past tense
- s: added to verbs to show present action in third person
- s: added to nouns to make them plural
- Appropriate Phrasing: group related words together so that they sound the way they would in natural speech. Follow the cues of punctuation as you read, pausing at commas or stopping at the end-of-sentence marks.
- Problem-Solution Essay - addresses a problem in our world and offers a solution to it. May persuade readers and has opinions supported by facts.
- Listening and Speaking - Panel Discussion
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