Double Dutch

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

  1. unison - making the same movements at the same time
  2. uniform - having a single form in appearance, style, color or texture
  3. mastered - became very skilled at something
  4. competition - trying to do better than other people or teams
  5. identical - exactly the same
  6. element - one essential part of a whole
  7. routine - a repeated series of movements
  8. intimidated - frightened or nervous; lacking in confidence
  9. recite - to say a text from memory
  10. 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.


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