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by Michael Dooling
Genre - Biography
Paired Text - Moving Pictures
Genre - Informational Text
Essential Question:
What important traits must an inventor have?
Reading Goals
Target Skills - main idea and details, sequence of events
Target Strategy - summarize
Fluency - accuracy
Phonics
words with AU, AW, AI, and O
Skill Links
Animated Story of the Light Bulb
Language Goals
Spelling - vowel sound in talk
talk cross awful law
cloth cost crawl chalk
also raw salt always
lawn wall soft small
often strawberry
Vocabulary
Strategy - shades of meaning
invention - an original device, system, or process
experiment - to find out or prove something
laboratory - a room or building holding special equipment for doing scientific tests, research, and experiments
genius - extraordinary intellectual power, especially seen in creative ability
gadget - a small mechanical device
electricity - of, relating to or produced by electricity
signal - a sign, gesture, or device that gives a command, a warning, or other information
occasional - happening or encountered from time to time
Skill Links
Grammar
pronouns and antecedents
Skill Links
Pronouns and Antecedents Video 2
Pronouns and Antecedents Video
Writing
Focus Trait - sentence fluency
Writing Type - opinion writing (draft a response to literature)
Skill Links