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Title of Text: Addition
Author/Illustrator: Kristin Sterling GRL: D Series: First Step Nonfiction Genre: Nonfiction, Early Math Set II Engage
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Standard: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. Lesson Objectives: To ask and answer questions about the key details of the text, use questioning, and cause and effect Comprehension Strategy: Questioning Skill: Cause and Effect Fluency: Appropriate Speed Academic Vocabulary: explain or research the meanings of the words below. Discuss the morphology of the words: suffixes, taking a root word and adding to it to change the meaning of the word. Have students talk about the meaning of each word, using antonyms, synonyms and situations where each word can be used correctly. a. addition b. join c. plus d. equals e. together Before Reading: ENGAGE! THINK! 1. Build Background Knowledge a. Let’s look at the front and back cover. What do you know about this topic? b. What would you like to learn about addition? c. What word do you see in the word addition? d. What happen when you add things together? 2. Skill Introduction: a. Cause and Effect – What happens when we add things together? The effect is the number gets larger. The cause is adding things together. 3. Strategy Introduction: a. Questioning – as we read today, I would like for you to consider questions like how come this happens. What causes this? What are some effects of this happening, or not happening? 4. Fluency: Appropriate Speed – We will be working on reading at an appropriate speed with this book. Going too fast will cause you to lose the meaning of the content. Standard ‐ As we read today, I would like you to ask and answer questions about key details in the text. Use questions such as who, what, when, where, and why. Copyright © 2012 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. Lerner Digital™ and Lerner eSource™ are trademarks of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved. www.lernerbooks.com During Reading: Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late! Check for Understanding (Stop Midway through the Book) 1.
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3. What does it mean when you are asked to join things together? 4.
Tell me about a part you didn’t understand? Turn and Talk: how is using the strategy of questioning helpful in your reading? Standard: What do you do when you add things?
After Reading: EVALUATE! 1. What is the most important thing to remember from this book? What are the details that can help you remember this? 2. What did you learn? 3. What more do you want to learn about addition? 4. If you have two pencils and your friend has four pencils, how many do you have together? 5.
Standard: Why is it important to be able to add? 6.
Standard: What does the word plus mean in math? What does the word equals mean? 7.
Standard: Cause and Effect – on page 6, the effect is the girls have five cars, what is the cause? 8. Academic Vocabulary: Write a math problem showing both the plus and equal signs? Also write a sentence using the words addition and join together. (For example: 2 + 5 = 7, Addition means join together. Writing Standard: Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure. Task: Write an opinion pieces on the reasons you think using addition can be helpful to you. Use the points above to help you IF/THEN: Cause and Effect ‐ Set up a station, where you have laminated and velcro‐ed back picture cards, and they have to put the cause first, then the "main idea" and lastly the effect. For example, a picture card of the sun, maybe a caption saying, hot summer day, and another picture of an ice cream cone, and then a picture of an empty cone, with drips of ice cream on it. Copyright © 2012 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. Lerner Digital™ and Lerner eSource™ are trademarks of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved. www.lernerbooks.com