2 Minute Edit she didnt want sniffles to be lonely while they were at the class, which was held in the high school gymnasium.

Review the vocabulary words with your partners!
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Team Cooperation Goal
Help and Encourage Others

Very physically active – someone that plays many sports.
Kobe Bryant is very athletic , he is physically active.

Seated in a high place – sitting up high.
The high wire clown was perched on a wire above a crowd of people.

turn – bend.
I saw I guy
twisting at the fair, he was bending his legs and hands around his neck.

enclosed – gathered around.
Yesterday I was surrounded by my dogs, they were all around me.

search – look, find out or discover.
My dad explored the moon last time he blasted off into outer space, he wanted to explore!

In danger – scared, wary.
When I was in fourth grade, I was threatened by other students, I was scared and wary.
Let’s Check!

Vocabulary Vault

Let’s look for some Cause and
Effect connections!
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• Rodney Fox needed a big fish to win a competition
• Saw a big fish but right before he was going to harpoon him he felt a crash
• A G.W.S. bit him on his back and his arms
• He hit the GWS in the eyes and it let him go
• He had to receive 462 stitches
Shark Attack!
Shark
Attack!
• Movies make the fear of sharks worse with movies like Jaws
• There are 350 different types of sharks
• Only 30 sharks are known to bit humans
• The 3 most dangerous sharks are the Bull shark,
Tiger shark, and the Great
White Shark
Shark attacks-the facts
Why do sharks attack humans instead of eating all the fish in the ocean?

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Pink Dolphin of the Amazon

SFA
Story: Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon
Author: Sy Montgomery
Text: Expository
Instructional Goals:
Reading : Cause and effect (CE)
Team Cooperation Goal: Help and Encourage Others

• Exploring the Amazon during the rainy season would be an interesting adventure
• The wettest season is the best time to explore
• Instead of taking the bus to school, you would take a canoe
• Encantado means enchanted
Encounters with
Encantados
Encantado:
Pink Dolphin of the Amazon
Why are the dolphins pink?
Do they eat some type of pink food?

• What would be a good questions to ask someone about what we read yesterday?
Why does the Amazon river flood every year?

1.
Compare and contrast pink river dolphins to other dolphins.
2.
What is the effect of the pulses of sound the pink dolphins send out?
3.
Why do you think pink dolphins are so flexible?
4.
Find an example of figurative language in the passage and write it below.

SQRRRL
• Survey
• Questions
• Read
• Restate
• Review
• Learn

Partner Read p. 422-426
15 minutes
 Put 2 sticky notes on words that are new or unfamiliar to you
 Discuss with team words you clarified
 Find vocabulary words
 Record Main ideas and details on your Tree map

#1
Reads the
Question
#2
Answers the
Question
#3
Agrees or disagrees with evidence from the text
#4
Summarizes what the groups discussed

Team Discussion-15minutes
• Discuss answers to team talk questions
• Write answers to question 2 and 3

• What are some of the words you clarified?

15 min
Imagine you had a superpower like the pink dolphin, which can use echolocation to “see” things with sound waves.
Describe a superpower you would like to have. How would you use this superpower?
Discuss with your table first.

Scoring Guide
You answer the question
Your answer explains or describes with at least two details
Your answer makes sense and has
Part of the question in it
Your answer is written in complete, correct sentences
Your writing has correct capitalization and punctuation
25 points
25 points
20 points
20 points
10 points

5 min

Fluency Rubric
100 points Expressiveness
90 points
80 points
70 points
Smoothness
Rate and correctness
Smoothness
Rate and correctness
Rate and correctness
Correctness