READING FOCUS

Module 9: Global Guardians

Essential Question: What can people do to care for our planet?

Big Idea Words: ecology, recycle, conservation, sanctuary 

Week 1 Objectives:

-Recognize features of letters.

-Identify ideas and their supports. 

-Make inferences while reading.

-Use photos and other graphic features to understand text.

-Identify and infer the basic theme and author’s message.

-Identify and understand the meaning of common idioms. 

-Explain the difference between fact and opinion. 

-Identify graphic features, such as illustrations and visuals.

-Determine the use of the two suffixes -able and -ible. 

-Identify and infer basic theme and author’s message in the selection. 

Genre: Letters/Graphic Novel

Monday:

-Introduce Module, Knowledge Map, Big Idea Words, Curious Video

-Introduce vocabulary skills and review words

-Anchor Skill: Ideas and Support

-Read: The Eco Guardians

Tuesday:

-Review vocabulary and interactive practice

-Meet the Author 

-Anchor Skill: Making Inferences 

-Read: Luz Sees the Light

Wednesday:

-Vocabulary Know It, Show It Vocabulary

-Suffixes: -ible, -able

-Anchor Skill: Text and Graphic Features

-Buddy Read: Luz Sees the Light

Thursday:

-Anchor Skill: Theme

-Anchor Skill: Idioms

-Story Quiz: Luz Sees the Light

Friday: 

-Module 9: Week 1 Assessment 

Small-Groups: (Reading Log)

-Vocabulary Review/Practice

-Rigby Leveled Readers 

-Review Theme

-I-Ready Reading Pathway

-AR read

*Critical Vocabulary: frequent, sufficient, oasis, permission, installing, abandoned