Week 5

Reading Guide for Week 5, Chapters 53-64

Wild Robot Week 5
  • Vocabulary:
    • Review and discuss connotative and denotative meanings
    • Use context clues to define unknown words in a text-students add one slide to the class slide deck
  • Reading Strategies:
    • Foreshadowing and inference
    • Conflict, Theme, Characterization
    • Notice and Note Signposts: Contrasts & Contradictions, AHA Moment, Words of the Wiser, Again & Again
    • Text to Text & Text to World Connections

Each week we will have a class discussion using the socratic seminar model for a big question connected to the text. Learn more about this model of discussion strategy in the teacher's guide.

Week 5 Common Core Standards