2 Minute Edit
twenty minutes later two firemen with a tall
lader were rescuing sniffles from the beams
at the top of the gymnasium the dogs had
chased sniffles around the gym until he
climbed a rope to the ceiling
Review the
vocabulary
words with
your
partners!
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Team Cooperation Goal
Help and Encourage Others
athletic
Very physically
active – someone
that plays many
sports.
Kobe Bryant is
very athletic, he
is physically
active.
perched
Seated in a high
place – sitting up
high.
The high wire
clown was perched
on a wire above a
crowd of people.
twist
turn – bend.
I saw I guy
twisting at the
fair, he was
bending his legs
and hands
around his neck.
surrounded
enclosed –
gathered
around.
Yesterday I
was
surrounded by
my dogs, they
were all
around me.
explore
search – look,
find out or
discover.
My dad explored
the moon last
time he blasted
off into outer
space, he wanted
to explore!
threatened
In danger –
scared, wary.
When I was in
fourth grade, I
was threatened
by other
students, I was
scared and wary.
Let’s Check!
Review the vocabulary words
Go Around Sticks
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
•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 Attack!
Shark attacks-the
facts
Shark
Attack!
Sharks and Safety
•People have used shark
nets to keep people safe
from sharks
•Many things you can do to
avoid a shark attack like
not swimming when you
are bleeding
•Many things have been
invented to prevent shark
attacks like shark flotation
devices
•Shark suits
Why do sharks
attack humans
instead of eating
all the fish in the
ocean?
Encantado:
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
•Swim slowly
•No back fin
•Hard to see
•Very flexible
•Use echolocation
Encounters with
Encantados
Pink Dolphins
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?
How do pink dolphins see in their
underwater jungle?
Team Talk
1. Describe Moses.
2. What causes tangarana ants
to attack?
3. What happened right before
the pink dolphins
surrounded the canoe?
SQRRRL
•Survey
•Questions
•Read
•Restate
•Review
•Learn
Partner Read p. 426-428 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
#4
Agrees or disagrees Summarizes what
with evidence from the groups discussed
the text
Team Discussion-15minutes
• Discuss answers to team talk questions
• Write answers to question 1 and 3
Class Discussion
• What are some of the words you clarified?
• Describe Moses.
• What happened right before the pink dolphins
surrounded the canoe?
Adventures in Writing 15 min
Are you afraid of bugs
and spiders? Explain
why you feel the way
you do.
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
Vocabulary Practice
Fluency
5 min
Fluency Rubric
100 points
90 points
80 points
70 points
Expressiveness
Smoothness
Rate and correctness
Smoothness
Rate and correctness
Rate and correctness
Correctness