Where Opportunity Awaits

Where Opportunity Awaits

Interactive Site: Ellis Island Interactive Tour

Question of the Week: How can migration affect a culture?

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 Test

- Generalize

- a generalization is a broad statement that applies to many examples

- authors sometimes make generalizations to get across a message about a group of things or people

- clue words: most, all, always, never

- valid or faulty

- valid: supported by examples, facts, or sound logic

- faulty: cannot be supported

- Visualize

- look for sensory details to create pictures in their minds as you read

- sights, sounds, and smells described by an author helps you visualize what you are reading

- as you read think about the impact that sensory details and imagery have on the selection

- Synonyms

- a word with the same or almost the same meaning as another word

- authors may use synonyms to help define more difficult words

- look for synonyms in the context of unfamiliar words, substitute that word for the unfamiliar word, does it make sense?

- Fluency: Appropriate Phrasing

- grouping words together; let punctuation cues guide you; group words set off by commas or semicolons or dashes; come to a full stop at the end of a sentence

- Listening and Speaking: Interview

- one person asks another person questions

- purpose of interviews is to find out what the subject (person being interviewed) knows or thinks about something

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