Grade 4 Unit 5 Week 2

Skill/Strategy: Compare & Contrast/VisualizingEssential Question: How can a Compare/Contrast chart help me understand what I read? Review: To compare and contrast means to tell how two or more things are alike and different. Authors may use clue words such as like, as, and same to show similarities. They may use clue words such as but, unlike, and different to show differences.

Reading Street, Grade 4, Unit 5, p. 538.

Part A: Compare/Contrast from text Materials: Reading Street text, ½ sheets of blank white paper

Read page 556-557 Riding the Rails to Machu Picchu with students. Bring students’ attention to the sentence “There are three ways to get to Machu Pichhu from Cusco.” Explain that this tells you there might be a compare/contrast coming. Ask students to reread the rest of the paragraph on their own to find out what is being compared. Show students how to fold the sheet to make a 3 column chart with headings and bullet points. Keep directing students back to the text to find details for each section. (This is something they really need to work on.) When finished ask students which one they would choose and why. Emphasize how easy it is to decide when the facts are shown on this C/C chart. If there is time, continue reading pages 558-559 and add a few more facts to the 3rd column.

How to Get to Machu Picchu from Cusco

Hike Old Inca Trail Take a helicopter Take the Train hard journey takes 4 days guides come along llamas carry supplies you carry a backpack

25 minute trip see the scenery

train travels daily 3 hour ride

Part B: Compare/Contrast genres Materials: Reading Street texts, ½ sheets of blank white paper

This week’s Main Selection, Lost City: The Discovery of Machu Pichhu, is Narrative Non-fiction. Ask students to use the Table of Contents and look over a few examples of Narrative Non-fiction [p. 62, p. 536, p. 542, p. 604, p. 742] and Expository Non-fiction [p. 36, p. 108, p. 210, p. 244, p. 258, p. 288, p. 310, p. 342, p. 380, p. 412, p. 420, p. 436, p. 626, p. 682]. Create a C/C chart for these two types of nonfiction. Goals of this lesson include understanding the difference between fiction/non-fiction, understanding the terms narrative/expository, using the Table of Contents, and Comparing/Contrasting.

Part C: word study with root words

EQ: How can root words help me to figure out the meaning of a word?

Materials: Word sort cards, word sorting chart, Root Word Challenge cards

Intro: When you come to a long word, look for prefixes, suffixes, and root words. Go over the root words on the chart. These give you clues to the meaning of words. Remember to divide syllables between consonants or after long vowels to help you read these words. MODEL this with the words cosmo-naut (an astronaut from Russia, a different part of the world) and terres-trial (living or belonging to the land rather than the sea or air). Then, ask students to sort the words by root words. After sorting, go over each column, helping students to separate the words into syllables as needed and discuss word meaning related to the root words and affixes. As each word is decoded, students should write that word on their chart. You may want students to just write a few words in each column. Follow with Root Word Challenge.

terr, terra

“earth or land”

geo

“earth, rocks, soil”

cosmo

“world or universe”

hydra, hydro

“water”

astra, astro

“star”

terraceterrain

terrariumterritory

terrestrial

geographygeocentric

geologygeometry

cosmosmicrocosm

cosmopolitancosmonaut

dehydratehydrant

hydraulichydrogen

hydrophobia

asteriskaster

asteroidastronomyastronaut

astrophysics

Root Word Challenge (see Cards attached): a flower that has a star shape aster people from all over the world cosmopolitan being afraid of water hydrophobiastar shaped symbol * asterisk study of rocks and minerals geology remove moisture from something dehydratehaving Earth at the center geocentric studying physical properties of stars astrophysics miniature of something huge microcosm

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Working with Root Words

terr, terra

“earth or land”

geo

“earth, rocks, soil”

cosmo

“world or universe”

hydra, hydro

“water”

astra, astro

“star”

cosmos terrace hydrant Geometry

geography asterisk astronaut Astrophysics

territory terrain cosmopolitan Aster

dehydrate astronomy terrarium Hydrogen

geology microcosm geocentric Cosmonaut

hydrophobia asteroid hydraulic Terrestrial

cosmos terrace hydrant Geometry

geography asterisk astronaut Astrophysics

territory terrain cosmopolitan Aster

dehydrate astronomy terrarium Hydrogen

geology microcosm geocentric Cosmonaut

hydrophobia asteroid hydraulic Terrestrial

a flower that has a star shape

star shaped symbol

remove moisture from something

people from all over the world

study of rocks and minerals

miniature of something huge

being afraid of water

studying physical properties of stars

having Earth at the center