Rate the words as you come in. Do you know how to say the word? What it means? How to put it in a sentence? ? ? ? ? + ? + + ?

Letters Home from Yosemite

2 Minute Edit The word distracted is derived from the Latin root tract, meaning “to draw.” Based on this information, the reader can tell the literal meaning of to distract is : A to be unhappy with. B to draw poorly. C to draw away. D to be confused. The prefix fore- in the word foretelling means A at last. B many. C truth. D ahead of.

Reading Goal This week you will identify main ideas in the text using supporting details.

Team Cooperation Goal Complete tasks

Title: Letters Home from Yosemite Reading Goal: Main Idea and supporting details Team Cooperation Goal: Completing Tasks Genre: Expository Author: Lisa Halvorsen

scenery Outdoor views The scenery at the top of the Mountain was amazing with all of the outdoor views.

wilderness Land where no people live Sometimes bears Come out of the Wilderness and take food from our trash cans.

preserve Keep safe I found an Indian Arrowhead in the ground and Dad told me to preserve it.

graze Blend “Horses and cows graze, not people,” the baby’s Mother Said when he tried to eat grass.

swooping Rushing down At the beach seagulls were swooping down To steal our French fries.

precious Costly Jeremy accidently Broke his grandmother’s precious antique clock.

Go Around Check student to see who knows the words. Go around sticks.

Review Vocabulary with Partner Can you say it? Can you define it? Can you say it in a sentence?

Vocabulary Vault

21 Plants Bite Back Richard Platt

I wonder what type of plants eat flies? Plants Bite Back! Plants cover planet Earth Every country on Earth has interesting plants Some plants have stinging spikes Some plants are carnivores Venus fly trap is one form of carnivorous plant The Bladderwort is another carnivorous plant The bladderwort is a microscopic carnivore The pitcher plant digests it’s prey through its liquid intestine Plant Power Greedy Green Guzzlers

Letters Home from Yosemite

Where is Yosemite National Park Letters from Yosemit In the Sierra Nevada Mountains Mountains cover 15.5 million acres Yosemite Valley is 7 miles long and 1 mile wide Topography

Vocabulary- Say It! glacier impressive naturalist preserve slopes species wilderness

More Words to Know altitudes formations reservoir earthquake eruptions volcano

glacier  a great mass of ice moving very slowly down a mountain or along a valley

naturalist  a person who studies living things

impressive  able to have a strong effect on the mind or feelings

preserve  to keep from harm or change; protect

species  a set of related living things that share certain characteristic and that can be interbred

slopes  and that goes up and down at an angle

wilderness  a wild region with few or no people living in it

earthquake  a shaking or shifting motion of Earth’s surface. It is caused by the sudden breaking of masses of rock along a fault.

eruptions  acts or processes of bursting or throwing forth

volcano  opening in Earth’s crust through which steam, ashes, and lava are forced out in periods of activity

altitudes  heights about Earth’s surface

reservoir  a place where water is collected and stored for use

What would be a good question at this point? What makes Yosemite such an amazing place?

Team Talk Questions 1.Yosemite Valley is the most visited part of the park because? 2.Why did the Native Americans call Bridalveil Fall “the spirit of the puffing winds?” 3.Which of the following is the main idea of letter on page 122? 4.Why do you think some sequoia trees have nicknames like Clothespin Tree and the Dead Giant?

Partner Read- 15 minutes Put 2 sticky notes on words that are new or unfamiliar to you Read and restate pages Discuss with team words you clarified Find vocabulary words

Tree Map Decide as a group what the main idea was for each section Provide at least 3 details to support your main idea

Team Discussion-15minutes Discuss answers to team talk questions Team Talk procedures will be up! Write answers to question 2 and 4

#1 Reads the Question #2 Answers the Question #3 Agrees or disagrees with evidence from the text #4 Summarizes what the groups discussed

Class Discussion What words did your group clarify?

Writing Adventures- 15 min Think about a tree you know or imagine a tree. What does it look like? Give your tree a nickname based on its appearance.

Scoring Guide You answer the question25 points Your answer explains or describes with at least two details25 points Your answer makes sense and has Part of the question in it20 points Your answer is written in complete, correct sentences20 points Your writing has correct capitalization and punctuation10 points

Vocabulary Practice-10 min “I take my pet iguana, Iggy outside sometimes because he like to graze in the park. One day, Iggy got scared by some birds that were swooping down, and he climbed high into a tree. I explained to a police officer how precious Iggy was, and he called some firefighters who helped get Iggy down. graze a.Pick grass b.Eat grass c.Cut grass d.Plant grass Swooping a.Running up b.Running down c.Rushing over d.Rushing down precious a.Colony b.Cottony c.Costly d.cozy

Fluency – 5 min Page 118

Fluency Rubric 100 pointsExpressiveness Smoothness Rate and correctness 90 pointsSmoothness Rate and correctness 80 pointsRate and correctness 70 pointsCorrectness