1. ? ? + +
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? ? ? + + ? + + ? + + + + + +

2. Letters Home from Yosemite

3. Vocabulary Development 2-Minutes! What do these prefixes mean?
Between-as in intermediate
Across-as in transportation
Same, even, equal-as in equivalent
Hanging, weighing in balance-as in suspenders
Around-as in circulate
Related to citizen-as in civics
Together-as in committee
Revolving-as in cyclone
Not-as in disagree
Inter=
Trans=
Equi=
Pend=
Circ=
Civi=
Com/con=
Cycl=
Dis=

4. Let’s Match!! Equidistant A. hanging onto support
pendulum B. same condition or treatment
Equality C. same distance
dependent D. hanging from a clock
Interval E. to send across
Transmit F. With action between
Tranfusion G. A time between
Interactive H. Blood across (from one person to another

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

6. Team Cooperation Goal Complete tasks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16. Vocabulary Vault

17. 21
Plants Bite Back
Richard Platt

18. I wonder what type of plants eat flies?
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
Plants Bite
Back!
Deadly Weeds
There are many types of plants that are poisonous
Poison ivy is one!
Stinger trees can kill you
Aconitine is a very lethal plan
Prayer beans are also very lethal. They can kill an adult!
I wonder what type of plants eat flies?

19. Letters Home from Yosemite

20. Where is Yosemite National Park
In the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Mountains cover 15.5 million acres
Yosemite Valley is 7 miles long and 1 mile wide
Black bears often raid camps for food
Mule deer graze by roadside
Bobcats, coyote, jackrabbits, marmots, sheep, rattlesnakes
Topography
Wildlife
Letters from Yosemit
Where is Yosemite National Park

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

22. More Words to Know altitudes formations reservoir earthquake eruptions
volcano

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

24. a person who studies living things
naturalist
a person who studies living things

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

26. to keep from harm or change; protect
preserve
to keep from harm or change; protect

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

28. and that goes up and down at an angle
slopes
and that goes up and down at an angle

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

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

31. acts or processes of bursting or throwing forth
eruptions
acts or processes of bursting or throwing forth

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

33. heights about Earth’s surface
altitudes
heights about Earth’s surface

34. a place where water is collected and stored for use
reservoir
a place where water is collected and stored for use

35. What would be a good question at this point?
Is there really a spirit in Bridalveil Falls?

36. Team Talk Questions
Why do campers at Yosemite put all their food in metal boxes?
Which of the following is the main idea of the letter called “Yosemite Wildlife?”
What does the author mean when she writes that the sunlight was “painting” rocks?
From your reading, what can you conclude about granite?

37. 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

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

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

40. #1 Reads the Question #2 Answers the Question#3
Agrees or disagrees with evidence from the text #4
Summarizes what the groups discussed

41. Class Discussion
What words did your group clarify?

42. Writing Adventures- 15 min
What is the tallest thing you have ever seen? Was it a building, or a tree, or a tower? Describe the thing and imagine what you could see from the top.

43. Scoring Guide
You answer the question 25 points Your answer explains or describes with at least two details 25 points Your answer makes sense and has Part of the question in it 20 points Your answer is written in complete, correct sentences 20 points Your writing has correct capitalization and punctuation 10 points

44. Vocabulary Practice-10 min
Uncle Fred loves to preserve old coins by wrapping them in plastic. He sits behind his cabin near the wilderness and spreads his coins out on a picnic table. This way Uncle Fred can enjoy his coins while looking at the beautiful scenery. Down the hill from his cabin, sheep and cows graze near a pond, and Uncle Fred likes to look at them while polishing and wrapping his collection. One day some crows, who like shiny objects, started swooping down from the trees and grabbing Uncle Fred’s coins. “My precious coins!” he cried out sadly, watching the birds fly away.
preserve
Keep safe
Keep apart
Keep quiet
Keep up
wilderness
Land where people live
Land where people visit
Land where no people live
Land where no people go
Scenery
Outdoor views
Outside shows
Views out back
Seen outdoors
Graze
Pick grass
Cut grass
Plant trees
Eat grass
Swooping
Rushing down
Running down
Rushing over
Running up
Precious
Cozy
Cottony
Colony
costly

45. Fluency – 5 min
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Page 121 or 123

46. Fluency Rubric 100 points Expressiveness Smoothness
Rate and correctness
90 points Smoothness
80 points Rate and correctness
70 points Correctness