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Sailing Home

By Gloria Rand

Set the Stage!Today you will begin reading Sailing Home, which is a historical fiction about a family that lives on a boat. As you read, you will identify cause-and-effect connections in the text. Good readers use cause-and-effect connections to understand why things happen in texts.

Reading/Team Cooperation GoalToday’s reading objective will be cause and effect. Students will identify the cause of something and what the effect of that events is and connect that to the reading.

Today’s team cooperation goal is active listening. Active listeners look at the person talking, keep eye contact, listen carefully and ask questions.

Sailing HomeBy Gloria Rand

Reading Goal: Cause and effect

Team Cooperation Goal:Active ListenersGenre: Historical fiction

Days : 1-4

Rate and Reviewcargo exchangedsignaled spottedseldom deliciousRate and review your vocabulary words by yourself. Ask yourself :

Can you read the word? Can you define the word? Can you use the word in a sentence? Be honest with yourself.

Review Vocabulary with Partner- 5min

Can you pronounce itCan you give the definitionCan you use it in a sentence

Check out our vocabulary words!

cargoThe train’s cargo was a shipment

of Christmas trees that were being sent to Disneyland.

freight

Prefix?Suffix?

Identification strategy:Blend

Prefix + Base word Base word + suffix

chunk

signaledThe crossing guard signaled to the children that it was safe to cross

the road.

communicated

PREFIX? SUFFIX?

ED

Identification strategy:Blend

Prefix + Base word Base word + suffix

chunk

seldomMs. Cook seldom gives homework

because she is so nice.

rarely

Ms. Cook is awesome. She never

gives homework!

Identification strategy:Blend

Prefix + Base word

Base word + suffix

Chunk`

Prefix?Suffix?

exchangedBreana exchanged the Rhianna CD for the new Chris Brown CD.

traded

Identification strategy:Blend

Prefix + Base word Base word + suffix

chunk

Prefix? Suffix?

ed- past tense

spottedAntonia spotted Zac Efron in a

store when she was in Hollywood and asked for his autograph.

saw

Identification strategy:Blend

Prefix + Base word Base word + suffix

chunk

prefix suffix

deliciousThe delicious cake was sitting on

the counter just begging to be eaten.

Very tasty

Identification strategy:Blend

Prefix + Base word Base word + suffix

chunk

Prefix?Suffix?

Vocabulary Vault

Cargodelicious

signaled

seldomspotted

exchanged

Building Background- Cause and Effect

What is life like for the children on the John Ena?

The window broke when Alexis threw the baseball.

Cause: What makes something happenEffect: Something that happens

Cause: Alexis threw a baseball

Effect: The window broke

Cause and effectOn the first day of school, it was raining. Lily was wearing her nice new dress. Lily mother told her not to splash in any puddles on the way to school. But Lily loved splashing in puddles and couldn’t resist. As soon as she got off the bus, she stomped into a great big puddle and made a wonderful splash. She got dirty water all over her new dress and went to school all wet.

What are some cause and effect connections?

Cause: What makes something happenEffect: Something that happens

Listening Comprehension: Superfudge

Page 13-16Remember Peter’s mother is going to have another baby and Peter is not happy about it.

Sailing Home• Prepare to read

Sailing Home is historical fiction. Historical fiction is based on real events, but contains details that the author added using her imagination.

Preview Team Talk questions

Partner Read- 15 minutes As you read through the pages identify unfamiliar words. Put 2 sticky notes on words that are new or

unfamiliar to you. As you read you will use your clarification strategies to define the word or idea.

Restate each page (or paragraph) as you read (summarizing)

Read and restate pages 524-525 with partners

Read 526 silently

Discuss and answer all Team Talk Questions

Answer 2 and 3 in your journals

New skill-Recipicol TeachingClarifyingQuestioningPredictingSummarizing

Class Discussion-10 minutes What words did you clarify? Who wants to restate the

information? Lets answer the Team Talk

questions!

Adventures in Writing- 15 minPage in Treasure Hunt

Think of the school. The students go to in Sailing Home. How is it different from your school? How is it the same? Compare and contrast the two kinds of schools.

Vocabulary Practice-10 min• Complete vocabulary practice on

page

Fluency – 5 min

Read page 525 with partner. Give fluency score using fluency rubric.