Mountains: Surviving on Mt. Everest
Mountains: Surviving on Mt. Everest
by Michael Sandler
Genre - Informational Text
Paired Text - The Big Cleanup
Genre - Play
Essential Question:
Why do mountain climbers need to be well prepared?
Reading Goals
Target Skills - text and graphic features, main idea and details
Target Strategy - infer/predict
Fluency - expression
Phonics
suffixes -less, -ness, -able
Skill Links
Language Goals
Spelling - suffixes -less and -ness
painless
sickness
sadness
helpless
thankless
kindness
hopeless
darkness
fearless
thickness
careless
goodness
spotless
softness
useful
weakly
breathless
eagerness
Vocabulary
Strategy - analogies
approached - came near
section - part or area
avalanches - rock or snow slides on a mountain
increases - becomes more
succeed -accomplish something attempted
equipment - supplies
tanks - containers
slopes - a slanted surface
altitude - height above Earth's surface
halt -a temporary stop
Skill Links
Grammar
words that compare
Skill Links
Writing
Focus Trait - word choice
Writing Type - Narrative (draft a fictional narrative)