Uintah County School District
2011 Week 1 Cont.
Week At A Glance ExLL Model- Week 1
Unit: Five
Week: One
Focus Standards:
RL.4.9: Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g.,
the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
RI.4.7: Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or
interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.
W.4.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event
sequences.
SL.4.4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant,
descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.
L.4.3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Science Standard 3
Students will understand the basic properties of rocks, the processes involved in the formation of soils, and the needs of plants provided by
soil.
Student Objectives:
Objective 2
Explain how the processes of weathering and erosion change and move materials that become soil.
Objective 3
Observe the basic components of soil and relate the components to plant growth.
Terminology:
Mountain men; trappers; explorers
Minerals, weathering, erosion, freezes, thaws, nonliving, organisms, soil
profile, topsoil, nutrients, bedrock, structural support, subsoil
Read Aloud
Rigby—Theme 8,
week 1
Rigby Teacher
Source Book; Theme
8
pg 236—251
Rigby Student Book:
pg 222-236
Shared Reading
Guided Reading/Book Clubs/Reciprocal
Teaching
The Utah
Rigby: “The Case of the Vanishing
Adventure by John Soil”
McCormick
Student book pg. 232-236
(p. 56—75)
Utah Atlasby Cliff B. Craig and M
Rigby: “A Very
Elijah Carr
Dirty Subject”
ISBN: 1-4236-0075-4
student book: pg
228-229
McGraw-Hill Science Text Book:
Student book pg 184-193
Comprehension Strategy:
Ask questions
Genre Focus:
Fantasy/Informational Text/Personal Narrative
Independent Reading
Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
(ISBN 059037158)
Prairie Summer by Bonnie
Geisert( ISBN 0618212930)
Southwest: US Explorers by
Rose J. Blue and Corinne J.
Naden
Word Work
Adjectives
Uintah County School District
2011 Week 1 Cont.
Thimble Summer by
Elizabeth Enright
Interactive Writing/Edit
What are some use
and/or uses of soil
Describe a soil
profile
K/W/L chart (begin
K/W portion)
Independent Writing
Write a fantasy @
“your” adventures in
soil
Vocabulary
Soil profile
Topsoil
Subsoil
Properties
Non-living
Organism
Minerals
Weathering
Nutrients
Bedrock
Structural support
Assessment/Rubrics
Development of a rubric for
fantasy story
Technology
http://school.dis
coveryeducation.
com/schooladve
ntures/soil/dow
nn_dirty.html
http://www.butl
erswcd.org/Educ
ation/Kids.html
#dirt
http://www.biod
iversity911.org/s
oil/soil_main.ht
ml
http://forces.si.e
du/soils
http://websoilsu
rvery.nrcs.usda.g
ov/app/