Additional Book Information:

• Copyright: 2018 by Elizabeth Noll

• Publisher: Bellwether Media, Inc.

• Publishing Date: January 1, 2018

• Reading Level (Lexile): 820L

5 key words to describe this book:

• Factual

• Informational

• Realistic

• Relevant

• Futuristic

ELA CT Common Core Standard that might be met by reading this book:

RI.4.2 Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.

Suggested Delivery:

• Independent Read or Small Group

Electronic Resources: 

• https://www.getepic.com/book/52419204/world-of-robots-medical-robots 

  • Epic! can be used to access the book in a digital format. 

• https://youtu.be/0XdC1HUp-rU 

  • Play this video for students after reading text to demonstrate how medical robots operate and how steady and precise machines like "Da Vinci" truly are. 

Video to Build Schema:

• https://youtu.be/vugOOuq256M 

ELA Teaching Suggestions:

Key vocabulary that may have to be taught for students to better understand the text:

• Healthcare: the preservation of health by medical professionals

• Surgery: a medical treatment in which doctors called surgeons use tools to work on a patient's body

• Operation: when doctors fix something inside the body to make the person feel better

• Caregiver:  professional who assists individuals with daily tasks and activities

• Patient: an individual under medical care and treatment

• Medical assistant: someone who does things to help doctors and nurses with their jobs

Reading strategy suggestions to increase literal and/or inferential comprehension:

• Before Reading

  • Ask students to share what "robots" they have seen before and what they are used for (ex. Roomba vacuum for cleaning, robots at grocery stores that detect spills, etc.)

• During Reading

  • Students will take Sketchnotes (visual notes). The following video explains why visual notetaking if effective and how to Sketchnote. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOHcWhdguIY 

This website provides more materials on how and why to incorporate Skecthnotes into the classroom.

https://www.schrockguide.net/sketchnoting.html 

• After Reading

  • Students can create a model of their own medical robots and provide an explanation its purpose and why it would be useful for healthcare. 

Writing activity that requires students to demonstrate inferential comprehension:

• Students will write an open-ended response about what they learned from the book.