Double Dutch
Double Dutch: A Celebration of Jump Rope, Rhyme, and Sisterhood
Double Dutch: A Celebration of Jump Rope, Rhyme, and Sisterhood
Narrative Nonfiction
Big Idea
- We never stop learning.
Essential Question
- What events lead to a team to learn double Dutch?
Target Vocabulary
- unison - making the same movements at the same time
- uniform - having a single form in appearance, style, color or texture
- mastered - became very skilled at something
- competition - trying to do better than other people or teams
- identical - exactly the same
- element - one essential part of a whole
- routine - a repeated series of movements
- intimidated - frightened or nervous; lacking in confidence
- recite - to say a text from memory
- qualifying - showing that you or your team have the ability to go on to the next level
Comprehension
Target Skill
- Sequence of Events - the order in which events happen.
Target Strategy
- Monitor/Clarify - to keep track of your understanding/to spot difficulties and figure out how to understand
Fluency
- Phrasing: Pauses - good readers automatically group words together into phrases or chunks. Phrasing helps readers and listeners make sense of ideas in the text. Readers usually pause between natural phrases.
Decoding
- Digraphs in Multisyllable Words - digraphs are two letters together that stand for one sound. Digraphs can appear anywhere in a word: at the beginning, in the middle or at the end.
Vocabulary Strategies
- Suffixes -ion, -tion - indicate action, quality or condition and usually change verbs or adjectives to nouns. A suffix is an affix that is added at the end of a base word or word root that changes the meaning of the word and its part of speech.
Grammar
- Common and Proper Nouns - a general person, place or thing or a particular person, place or thing. Proper nouns must be capitalized. Initials are the first letter of each important word in a group of words. An acronym is a name made from initials that can be read as a word. An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word.
Writing
Write to Express
- Focus Trait: Ideas - good narratives include ideas that are clear, focused and interesting. Writers use a variety of devices, such as flashback and flash forward, to add clarity and interest to their narratives.