Family Times
Author's Viewpoint/Bias
Daily Questions
Independent Readers
Prior Knowledge
Why some Animals are Considered Bad and
Scary
Fact and Opinion
Vocabulary
Context Clues
Predictions
Guided Comprehension
Compare and Contrast
Additional Resources
Study Skills:
Genre: Expository Nonfiction
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues
Comprehension Skill: Fact and Opinion
Comprehension Strategy: Ask Questions
Question of the Week:
What can people do to protect wild animals?
Daily Questions:
What examples from her life does Jane Goodall
give to illustrate the first three suggestions?
How has Jane Goodall's lifelong work with
chimpanzees affected her thinking?
Is it harder to help animals that seem bad or
scary? Explain.
Activate Prior Knowledge
Fact and Opinion
• A statement of fact can be proved true or false.
• A statement of opinion tells what someone thinks
or feels.
• Statements of opinion often contain words that
make judgments, such as interesting or beautiful.
• A single sentence might contain both a statement
of fact and a statement of opinion.
If yes, FACT statement
Can it be proved true or false?
If no, OPINION
If yes and no, BOTH
Strategy: Ask Questions
Good readers ask themselves questions. As you
read statements, ask yourself, “Is this a statement
of fact? If so, how do I know whether it’s true
or false? Or is it a statement of opinion? Is the
author trying to convince me of something?”
1. Make a graphic organizer. As you read
“Chimps,” write three sentences in the
correct boxes: a statement of fact, a
statement of opinion, and one with both.
2. Using a graphic organizer, find another
statement of opinion. Write about why it is
a statement of opinion, whether or not you
agree with it, and why.
Vocabulary List
Environment
Contribute
Conservation
Enthusiastic
Investigation
Introduce Vocabulary
Call out the following vocabulary words that go with the vocabulary
words.
Which word has to do with the temperature outside?
Which word describes a way to assist?
Which word has to do with a quest for information?
Which word describes feeling excited?
Which word has to do with preventing pollution?
Environment
condition of the air, water, soil, etc.
Conservation
Preservation from harm or decay; protection from
loss or from being used up
Contribute
To help bring about
Enthusiastic
eagerly interested
Investigation
a careful search
More Words to Know:
humane not cruel or brutal; kind
Loggers people whose work is cutting
down trees
tapeworms long, flat worms that live
as a parasite in the intestines of
humans and animals
Practice Lesson Vocabulary
What does your environment include?
Name a kind of conservation, and give a suggestion
for practicing it.
What makes you enthusiastic?
True or False
Animal shelter volunteers contribute their time.
A crime investigation attempts to solve a mystery.
An inspirational speech is a boring speech.
Vocabulary Strategy (pg. 210)
Context Clues
As you read, you will find unfamiliar words. See if you can use
context to figure out the meaning of a new word. Context means
the words and sentences near the unfamiliar word.
1. Reread the sentence with the unfamiliar word. The author may
include a synonym or other context clue to the word’s
meaning.
2. If you need more help, read the surrounding sentences. You
may spot examples or explanations that give you clues to the
word’s meaning.
3. Add up the clues and decide on the meaning of the word.
4. Check to see that this meaning makes sense in the sentence.
Genre: Expository Nonfiction
Expository Nonfiction explains a
person, a thing, or an idea. As
you read, notice how the author
gives both facts and opinions
based on those facts.
How does Jane Goodall feel about
wild animals?
Preview and Predict
Preview text features that signal
important information, such as numbered
subheads and large type. Use lesson
vocabulary words as they discuss about
what they expect to learn.
Guided Comprehension:
Reread the headnote on pg. 214. What is the author’s purpose for writing?
Explain whether the statement “tape-worms are simply too revolting to love” is a
fact or opinion.
Suppose you ask the author why she did not get hurt by an animal during all her
years in the forest. What might she say?
Why were other scientists shocked when the author gave names to the
chimpanzees that she was studying?
In what way does the author see animals and people as alike?
How do the photos help support Jane goodall’s belief that animals are thinking
feeling individuals.
Guided Comprehension Continued:
How could you use a context clue to help figure out the meaning of the word
migrating.
Have you read any other books about animals doing amazing things?
Reread the last two sentences of suggestion 6 on pg. 220. Do they state a fact
or an opinion? How do you know?
How can you use suffixes to tell what the words production and inspirational
mean?
Define the meaning of the word bear in the second sentence of suggestion 8.
How can you use Goodall’s suggestions in your own life to help save wildlife?
Compare and Contrast (TM 217)
• Comparisons tell how things are alike.
• Sometimes comparisons are stated indirectly, or implied. In that
case, the reader must detect the comparison.
Read about Goodall’s dog. The way Rusty acts is being compared to
the way a human might act.
Compare Rusty’s behavior when he is scolded for something he
knows is wrong and something he doesn’t know is wrong.
Author’s Viewpoint/Bias
An author’s viewpoint is the way an author looks at the subject he or she
is writing about. Biased writing is writing that shows an author’s strong
feeling for or against something.
• You can learn about an author’s viewpoint by asking yourself questions
about the author’s beliefs and assumptions as you read.
• You can determine whether writing is biased by evaluating the evidence
that an author gives to support her or her viewpoint.
Discuss Jane Goodall’s viewpoint as expressed in suggestion 10 on pg.
223. Talk about the optimistic tone of the paragraph which provides a
clue that her view is that the environment can be preserved.
Reread suggestion 7 on pg. 220. Write a paragraph that expresses the
author’s viewpoint on the suggestion given.
SUMMARY
The growth of human populations often results in greater
demand for limited natural resources and the clearing of
land to meet people’s needs. The author explains how this
trend contributes to the alarming loss of animal habitats
such as forests, prairies, and coral reefs, and results in
steeply declining animal populations. The author also
presents stories of how people across America are fighting
back by working to save animal habitats.
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
PAGE 3 What are some examples of animal
habitats around the world?
PAGES 3 AND 7 How does the destruction ofhabitats hurt animals?
PAGE 14 Is the author stating a fact or opinion when she writes that
the humpback whale’s “fame comes from the dazzling leaps and
displays that it makes”?
PAGE 23 How can you tell that the author wants to persuade
readers to help animals?
SUMMARY
Though animal extinction is a part of nature, human
actions can cause animals to become extinct faster than
they naturally would. The author explains how this
happens and what people have done to prevent giant
pandas, manatees, and other endangered animals from
suffering this fate.
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
PAGE 5 What are endangered species?
PAGE 6 What U.S. law protects endangered species?
PAGES 8–11 What is the main reason why the giant panda, spotted owl,
and Karner blue butterfly are all endangered or threatened?
PAGE 16 Is the author stating a fact or opinion when she writes that
“Peregrine falcons became endangered because of a chemical
in the environment”?
SUMMARY
Many animals are in danger of extinction due to
overhunting, pollution, and other human actions.
The author explains what people are doing today
to ensure that California condors, Bengal tigers,
and other endangered animals will not disappear
from Earth forever.
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
PAGE 5 Why do some species of animals and
plants become extinct?
PAGE 8 How does the Endangered Species Act
help certain animals?
PAGE 16 How does the saving of wild lands help save animals?
PAGE 21 Is the author stating a fact or opinion when she writes that
endangered animals are “some of nature’s most beautiful and amazing
creatures”?
What do you think the selection will be about?
Cartoon animals are used to illustrate the
article instead of photographs. What does
that suggest to you about the article?
What additional questions are you asking
yourself?
How can you tell the author’s opinion?
Reading Across Texts
Look over Jane Goodall’s 10 points. What is another point that could be
added to that list, based on “Why Some Animals Are Considered Bad or
Scary”?
Write your point #11 and explain it.
Additional Resources
http://www.janegoodall.org/
Compare and Contrast
Context Clues
Tutorial: Fact and Opinion
Fact/Opinion
context clues 2
Quizlet Jane Goodall's 10 Way to Help Save Wildlife
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