Stones, Bones, and Petroglyphs

Question of the Week: Why is it important to learn about America's past?

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

- Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPqlmlI6zW8&list=PL3F9ECBCD906BF9C6&index=43

- Graphic Sources:

- shows information in a way that the reader can see

- types: table, bar graph, map, diagram, photographs, timelines, Venn Diagram

- Quia - Reading Charts and Graphs

- Text Structure:

- helps you understand what you read

- before read: preview, look at title, headings, captions, get an idea about the story and how it's organized

- during reading: make a mental movie

- after read: recall events, summarize

- Dictionary:

- look up words that you are unfamiliar with

- look it up

- all are in ABC order

- pronunciation to pronouce it correctly

- read all meanings

- choose meaning that fits best in the sentence

- Poems:

- written work arranged in lines

- the lines have rhythm, or a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

- Link to different types of poems: http://www.kathimitchell.com/poemtypes.html

- Link to acrostic poems: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/acrostic/

- Link to theme poems: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/theme_poems/

- Appropriate Phrasing: how you group words and when you pause between them. Group words in a way that reflects their meanings and the ideas they express. Use punctuation cues to help with your phrasing.

- Writing: Poems

- 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