🔺Module 6 - W3 - Day 5 - ELA

Lesson Instructions

You will go through two lessons (one in grammar and one in reading). 


Phone.png GRAMMAR

Introduction

Today's reference material is the ATLAS. In Greek mythology, Atlas was a god who literally carried the weight of the world on his shoulders. An atlas carries maps of the world!

Video


Stop and Jot

In Your Notebook:  Continue to copy down the chart.

Reference Materials

 

Dictionaries

A book of words in alphabetical order
Gives definition, part of speech, and pronunciation

Glossaries Domain-specific vocabulary words in alphabetical order
In the back of the reference material
Give definitions
Thesaurus

A book of synonyms and antonyms in alphabetical order
Helps improve word choice while writing

Almanacs

A book of facts about a given year
Written chronologically (in order by time) or by topic

 

Atlas

A book of maps (used to view a specific location or surface features)

 


Phone (2).png READING

Introduction

We are continuing our work on finding informational text features and understanding the purpose behind them. We used this visual to review:

Nonfiction Text Features
Print - bold, colored, italics, highlighted, big or small
Diagrams 
Timelines
Index
Bullet points
Table of contents
glossary
graphs
tables/chairs
maps
pictures/captions

 

 

Video


Stop and Jot

In Your Notebook:  

Continue reading informational text and adding to your chart from the last reading session. If you are having trouble locating text features, use the graphic above to help you.

While you are reading your informational book, find text features and fill out the chart. Read for 30 minutes.

Text Feature Why did the author include it?
   
   
   
   

 

 

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