A Symphony of Whales by: Steve Schuch

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A Symphony of Whalesby Steve Schuch

• Genre
• Vocabulary Strategy
• Comprehension Skill
• Comprehension Strategy

Fiction Context Clues Generalize Answer
Questions
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Review Concept Board

• Question of the day!
• What did Glashka's people need from the whales
  and other sea animals in order to survive?

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Phonics Objectives

• Use word parts to decode words with suffixes.
• Review g, j, dge/j/ s, c/s/ c, k, ck, ch/k/
  contrast hard g with soft g.
• Blend and read g, j, dge/j/ s, c/s/ c, k, ck,
  ch/k/ words and suffixes.
• Apply decoding strategiesblend longer words

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Suffixes -ly, -ful, -ness, -less
-ly means in a ____ way -ful means filled with
-ness means the condition of being -less means
without
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I climbed tiredly into bed and turned off the
light.

• The word with a suffix is tiredly.
• Lets look at tiredly with out the suffix -ly.
• tired - do you know what tired means?
• Often, suffixes like -ly change how the base word
  is used for example, tiredlydescribes an
  action it answers the question how.

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Modeling

• The first thing I do when I come to a word like
  tiredly is break it into its word parts. I can
  take off -ly and I have the word tired. I know
  what tired means.In the sentence, tiredly answers
  the question how. In the sentence, tiredly
  describes how I climbed into bed. The suffix -ly
  must make words describe how something is done.
• Watch as I blend tiredly. Now blend the word with
  me.

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Practice and Assess

• Lets read the words and underline the
  suffixes. You can write them on your desk.
• finally helpless
• beautiful kindness
• hopeless helpful
• quickly happiness

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Read words in context

• Lets read the sentences, identify the words with
  suffixes, and use the word in a sentence.
• Her blindness did not stop her from being able to
  read and write.
• The new boy from France was friendless, so
  Abigail kindly asked himto sit with her at
  lunch.
• It was a plentiful harvest, and we were all
  thankful.

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Objectives

• Use context clues to determine the meaning of
  unfamiliar words.

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Context Clues Strategy

• Read the words and sentences around theword you
  dont know. Sometimes the author tells you what
  the word means.
• If not, use the words and sentences to predict a
  meaning for the word.
• Try that meaning in the sentence. Does itmake
  sense?
• Now lets read page 356.

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Read Breaking the Ice

• Pay attention to how vocabulary is used. Listen
  as I model using context clues to determine the
  meaning of bay.
• MODEL The word bay is used on p. 357. The article
  describes the "waterfront village" where
  "villagers called the icebreaker for help." So a
  bay must be a body of water that is surrounded on
  many sides by something, such as ice or land.

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Context Clues

• Have students determine the meanings of the
  remaining words and explain the context clues
  they used.
• Point out that context does not work with every
  word. Students may have to use the glossary or a
  dictionary to find the exact meaning of some
  words.
• Have students reassess their usage and
  definitions of vocabulary words used in their
  word meaning charts.

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Challenge Activity pg. 357 Words to Write

• Look at the pictures in A Symphony of Whales.
  Choose a picture to write about. Try to use words
  from the Words to Know list.

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Context Clues WB page 135
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Say It!

• anxiously
• bay
• blizzard
• channel
• chipped
• melody
• supplies
• surrounded
• symphony

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More Words to Know

• neighboring
• waterproof
• yelping

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anxiouslyuneasily with fear of what might
happen
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baya part of a sea or lake surrounded by land
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blizzardsblinding snowstorms with very strong,
cold winds
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channel a body of water joining two larger
bodies of water
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chipped to cut or break off a thin piece of
something
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melodya pleasing or easily remembered series of
musical notes tune
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supplies the food and equipment necessary for an
army exercise, camping trip, and so on
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symphony a long, complicated musical composition
for an orchestra
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Small Group Time

• Read A Symphony of Whales
  pages 356-357

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FLUENCY - Choral Reading

• Listen as I read aloud p. 365. Notice the pace I
  am readingnot too fast and not too slowly. Now,
  you will practice as a class,doing three choral
  readings of p. 365.

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Life Cycles of Animals

• Most baleen, or toothed whales, migrate between
  the very cold polar regions and the warmer
  tropical regions. Scientists aren't totally
  certain why whales migrate, but it probably has
  something to do with food. The icy waters of
  thepolar north are rich in plankton, the main
  food source of baleen whales. The whales spend
  summer in these areas, filling up on food before
  winter. When the water begins to freeze over in
  the early winter months, the whales migrate
  south, where they mate and give birth. They
  return to the polar regions in late spring.

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Revisit Concept Web

• Do you have any words to add to our concept web?

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Language Objectives

• Use present, past, and future tenses in writing.

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Daily Fix-it

• Sled dogs was helpfull inthe cold climate.
• The dogs's owner spoke tothem quitely.

Sled dogs were helpful in the cold climate.
The dogs owner spoke to them quietly.
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Guided Practice

• Lets review the concept of present, past, and
  future verb tenses.
• Verbs can show when an action happens. Different
  verb tenses have different forms.
• Many present tense verbs end in -s. You form the
  past tense of many verbs by adding -ed. You add
  the helping verb will to a verb to make it a
  future tense verb.

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Present, past, and future verbs.
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Present, past, and future verbs.
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Writing objectives

• Identify the characteristics of a news story.

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READING-WRITING CONNECTION

• Lets work together to identify article facts
  that tell who, where, and why.

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READING-WRITING CONNECTION
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Challenge Activity
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Modeling

• Tomorrow we will write a news story. If I write
  about our town's fall festival, I need to tell
  readers what it is, who plans it, why it exists,
  where and when it takes place, and how it helps
  the town. For example, by writing "Main Street in
  Greenup will be busy Friday to Sunday, October
  1012, as the annual Apple Fest takes place"
  tells where, when, and what.

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Spelling Objective

• Spell words with suffixes -ly, -ful,
  -ness,-less.

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Generalization about spelling words with suffixes

• When adding the suffixes -ly, -ful, -ness, or
  -less, the spelling of the base word does not
  change unless the base word ends in y.
• Lets add -ly to final. Finally. Notice that we
  did not change the spelling of final.

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Read the words with me.

• 1. beautiful 9. daily
• 2. safely 10. suddenly
• 3. kindness 11. wireless
• 4. finally 12. quietly
• 5. spotless 13. fairness
• 6. worthless 14. cheerful
• 7. illness 15. painful
• 8. helpful

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Find the pattern

• Identify the spelling words where y was changed
  to i before adding the suffix.

1. beautiful 9. daily 2. safely 10. suddenly
3. kindness 11. wireless 4. finally 12. quietl
y 5. spotless 13. fairness 6. worthless 14. c
heerful 7. illness 15. painful 8. helpful
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Lets add an ending to the underlined words.
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GREAT JOB!