Technology Wins the Game
Technology Wins the Game
by Mark Andrews
Genre - Informational text
Paired Text - Science for Sports Fans
Genre - Informational Text
Essential Question:
How do inventors help athletes?
Reading Goals
Target Skills - sequence of events, text and graphic features
Target Strategy - questioning
Fluency - phrasing
Phonics
vowel dipthongs - OI and OY
Skill Links
Nonfiction Text and Graphic Features Video
Another Text and Graphic Features Video
Language Goals
Spelling - vowel sound in JOY
joy
point
voice
join
oil
coin
noise
spoil
toy
joint
boy
soil
choice
boil
come
are
poison
destroy
Vocabulary
Strategy - suffixes: -less, -ful, -ous
contribute - to give your part towards a group effort
athletes - a person who is trained in or is good at physical exercises, games, or sports
improve - to get better
power - the force, strength or ability to do something
process - a series of steps needed to do something
flexible - easily bent
fraction - part of a whole unit
compete - to take part in a race or contest against another person
Skill Links
Grammar
more plural nouns
Skill Links
Writing
Focus Trait - Word Choice
Writing Type - informative (cause and effect paragraph)