Reading Day 5: What did we learn from the illustrator? What did we learn from the author?

 

Introduction

Welcome to the end of week 18  readers! This week we shared nonfiction stories and we focused on the information we learned from our text. We learned information from the illustrations of the text and we learned information from the words in the text. Before you begin, review our anchor chart. 

Visuals

Non-fiction Real pictures or photographs gives information learn facts Non-fiction text features Glossary - found in the back of the text; gives readers definitions for vocabulary terms in alphabetical order heading- found at the top of the page in larger or bolder text to introduce text on page table on contents - found in front to text to help the reader to locate information more quickly. Chapt

 

Icon Assignment Activity

Today you will use the provided nonfiction text image. You will work to determine the information provided by the author and illustrator of this textbook. Use the skills we practiced this week as you analyze the photograph and read the words.

 

Image of Mount Rushmore with past presidents' faces carved into it. You can see the black hills of western south dakota from a long way off. these dome mountains rise up from the surrounding grassy plains as dark, hunched shapes. They are the highest mountains east of the rocky mountains. very ancient granite forms the core of the black hills. millions of years of weathering and erosion have exposed the igneous rock in many places. The sculptor Gutzon Borglum made one tall granite formation in the black hills famous. he carved the faces of four presidents into the rock to create mount rushmore national memorial. another sculpture in the black hills also gained attention - as the world's largest sculpture in progress. Crazy horse memorial honors north american indian heritage and depicts the face of sioux leader crazy horse. started in 1948 by sculptor korezak ziolkowski work on the massive sculpture still continues today.

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