The Chimpanzees I Love

INFORMATIONAL WEBSITES:

Jane Goodall: A Retrospective - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKyrLFyOi04

Jane Goodall website - http://www.janegoodall.org/

Koko the Gorilla - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNuZ4OE6vCk

Kanzi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxInjW1CMbk

Question of the Week: Why is it important to study animals responsibly?

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

- 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

- Text Structure:

- helps you understand what you read

- types of nonfiction text structure: compare/contrast, cause/effect, sequence, and problem-solution

- 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

- Unknown Words:

- using dictionary or glossary

- first use context clues to help you figure out an unknown word that you come across

- if context clues do not work, use a dictionary or glossary

- Fluency: Rate

- vary your speed according to mood and ideas in the text

- Listening and Speaking: Persuasive Speech

- trying to convince the audience to agree with what he/she says

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