Week 26 Dragons and Dinosaurs Students need a partner, textbooks, pencils, practice books, crayons, writing journals or notebook paper

(Thanks to Clare Pechon, Independence, Lousiana) for voc slides.

Dragons and Dinosaurs This week’s main story is titled, “Dragons and Dinosaurs”. In your writing journal, sketch and label a picture of a dragon and then sketch and label a picture of a dinosaur. YOU HAVE ABOUT 10 MINUTES TO FINISH BOTH.

Pair and Share Turn and share your drawings with your partner. Discuss what is the same about your drawings and what is different. Remember to face your partner and look at your partner and at their drawings as they talk to you.

Nonfiction Texts Nonfiction texts give facts. In a nonfiction text, some facts and ideas are more important that others.

To understand nonfiction text, you need to identify the most important ideas, or the main ideas. A lot of times, the first sentence in a paragraph tells you the main idea for the whole paragraph.

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Summarizing What You Read When you read, pause periodically to summarize sections of text. Remember to look for the main ideas in each section of text.

Read paragraph 1 together:

Summary:

Read paragraph 2 together. Jot down the main points and then work with a partner to write a summary.

Building Background:

Vocabulary Words

A contraption is a strange-looking machine or device. Why might someone stare at a contraption?

If a creature roamed an area, it wandered around there. Which roamed the earth in ancient times – trees or dinosaurs?

Something massive is very large and heavy. What is one massive animal that lives in the ocean?

If something is submerged, it is beneath the surface of a body of water. What might you use to explore a submerged object?

Something elegant is graceful and pleasing to look at. Where would you find elegant furniture – in a fancy hotel or in a bus station?

Obstacles are things that get in your way when you are going somewhere or trying to reach a goal. Why is it dangerous to leave obstacles on stairs?

Something that is complicated has many parts that are connected in ways to make it hard to understand. What is one complicated device that some workers use?

Something that is eerie is strange and makes people feel afraid. How would you feel if you heard an eerie noise?

(Thanks to Clare Pechon, Independence, Lousiana) Practice Book page 151