Mentor text
Crew member Will Reynolds tells of the voyage of The Endeavour from England to the Pacific Ocean to map the coasts of New Zealand and Australia. Along the way, the ship runs aground on a coral reef. If not for the imaginative thinking of one of the crew, all might have perished. Instead, the ship was kept afloat until Captain James Cook found a safe harbor where repairs could be made. Told in first-person narrative, The Reef is a suspenseful, engaging story.
Story Words
ashore, esteemed, lieutenant, naturalist, poisonous, rigging, salvage, superstitious, survey
ashore, esteemed, lieutenant, naturalist, poisonous, rigging, salvage, superstitious, survey
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During reading Activity
Introduce the Reading Strategy: Visualize
- Explain to students that one strategy readers use to understand what they are reading is to make
pictures in their minds as they read. Visualizing, or making pictures, of events in a story helps them remember what they are reading.
Model how to visualize. - Think-aloud: While I read, I am going to think about the words and illustrations in the book. I will use them to visualize, or make a picture in my mind, of what I am reading. As I continue reading, the pictures I have made in my mind will help me to remember the characters and events in
The Reef. - Preview the rest of the book, looking at the illustrations.
- As students read, they need to word bank and illustrate some of the main events in the text on their whiteboards. After reading the text they can transfer those thought onto the visualising worksheet.
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Comprehension
Remember in Year 4 your comprehension responses must be structured in a particular manner. The purpose of comprehension responses in to INFORM the reader about the text, so make sure your answer is informative.
- Re-state the question in your own words for example... "I think the author wrote the 'Sharks' text because...
- You must provide text evidence to 'back up' your reason/response!
- It needs to include a variety of punctuation such as commas for lists, quotation marks and brackets)
- Needs to be edited by YOU, not the teacher especially for sight words such as when, with, where, there, you etc
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Frayer Model
Complete the Frayer model for each of the story words. Use the template to guide you, the work however needs to be ruled up and completed in your English books.
Linking text to grammar
Prepositional phrases
Grammar and Mechanics: Prepositional phrases
Explain to students that prepositions are words that show a relationship between things. They provide information about where, when, how, why, and with what something happens.
Explain that a phrase is a short group of words, and that a prepositional phrase is a group of words beginning with a preposition and ending with a noun or pronoun.
These are examples of prepositions: about, above, across, after, along, among, around, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, by, during, from, in, of, on, out, through, under, upon, with, and without.
Find the preposition in this sentence: We set sail from Plymouth, England.
Explain to students that prepositions are words that show a relationship between things. They provide information about where, when, how, why, and with what something happens.
Explain that a phrase is a short group of words, and that a prepositional phrase is a group of words beginning with a preposition and ending with a noun or pronoun.
These are examples of prepositions: about, above, across, after, along, among, around, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, by, during, from, in, of, on, out, through, under, upon, with, and without.
Find the preposition in this sentence: We set sail from Plymouth, England.
Write the following sentence from page 7 on the board: Mr. Banks tried to net the creature that was chasing the fish but without success.
Point to the word without. Have a volunteer explain how the preposition is used in this sentence. Ask a student to come to the board to circle the prepositional phrase ( refer to answer sheet)
Review page 14 of the text. Please write on your whiteboard the prepositional phrases and circle the preposition.
Teacher to record on the on the board student answers.
Discuss the type of information each prepositional phrase provides (how, when, why, and so on) and how each one links the words in the sentence.
Point to the word without. Have a volunteer explain how the preposition is used in this sentence. Ask a student to come to the board to circle the prepositional phrase ( refer to answer sheet)
Review page 14 of the text. Please write on your whiteboard the prepositional phrases and circle the preposition.
Teacher to record on the on the board student answers.
Discuss the type of information each prepositional phrase provides (how, when, why, and so on) and how each one links the words in the sentence.
Independent activity
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Influential Explorers compare
and contrast
After reading and analysing these documents associated with Captain Cook and Christopher Columbus you are going to compare and contrast the two explorers. Critically think about how were they similar and how were they different? Be specific with your details! For example we DO NOT want to see things like they both sailed ships. What sorts of ships were they etc...
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Mapping exploration
From comparing and contrasting both famous explorers voyages you are now going to share your understanding by creating your own map depicting both routes of exploration. Please label the different continents, oceans etc on the map as well.
Resources: Children's Atlas- located in the library (class set)
Resources: Children's Atlas- located in the library (class set)
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