Sailing Home

By Gloria Rand

Set the Stage!Today you will begin reading Sailing Home, which is a historical fiction about a family that lives on a boat. As you read, you will identify cause-and-effect connections in the text. Good readers use cause-and-effect connections to understand why things happen in texts.

Reading/Team Cooperation GoalToday’s reading objective will be cause and effect. Students will identify the cause of something and what the effect of that events is and connect that to the reading.

Today’s team cooperation goal is active listening. Active listeners look at the person talking, keep eye contact, listen carefully and ask questions.

Sailing HomeBy Gloria Rand

Reading Goal: Cause and effect

Team Cooperation Goal:Active ListenersGenre: Historical fiction

Days : 1-4

Rate and Reviewcargo exchangedsignaled spottedseldom deliciousRate and review your vocabulary words by yourself. Ask yourself :

Can you read the word? Can you define the word? Can you use the word in a sentence? Be honest with yourself.

Review Vocabulary with Partner- 5min

Can you pronounce itCan you give the definitionCan you use it in a sentence

Check out our vocabulary words!

cargoThe train’s cargo was a shipment

of Christmas trees that were being sent to Disneyland.

freight

signaledThe crossing guard signaled to the children that it was safe to cross

the road.

communicated

seldomMs. Cook seldom gives homework

because she is so nice.

rarely

Ms. Cook is awesome. She never

gives homework!

exchangedBreana exchanged the Rhianna CD for the new Chris Brown CD.

traded

spottedAntonia spotted Zac Efron in a

store when she was in Hollywood and asked for his autograph.

saw

deliciousThe delicious cake was sitting on

the counter just begging to be eaten.

Very tasty

Building Background- Cause and Effect

Daniel is getting a 1 in math. What could be the cause?

Cause: What makes something happen

Effect: Something that happens

Cause and effectOne day Jerry ran to his house and told his mom to call 911. His parents lived next door to Mrs. Perkins. When Jerry was coming home from school, he saw smoke coming out of Mrs. Perkins’ kitchen window, and immediately got his mom to call for help. The firefighters came and put out the fire and helped Mrs. Perkins. She had fallen down while cooking something and had hurt her leg. She couldn’t reach the phone and could not turn off the stove while she was on the floor. This started a fire. Mrs. Perkins thanked Jerry for his help. He told her he always wanted to be a firefighter.

Cause: What makes something happenEffect: Something that happens

Listening Comprehension: Superfudge

Sailing Home• Prepare to read

Sailing Home is historical fiction. Historical fiction is based on real events, but contains details that the author added using her imagination.

Preview Team Talk questions

Partner Read- 15 minutes As you read through the pages identify unfamiliar words. Put 2 sticky notes on words that are new or

unfamiliar to you. As you read you will use your clarification strategies to define the word or idea.

Restate each page (or paragraph) as you read (summarizing)

Read and restate pages 522 with partners

Read 523 silently

Discuss and answer all Team Talk Questions

Answer 2 and 3 in your journals

New skill-Recipicol TeachingClarifyingQuestioningPredictingSummarizing

Class Discussion-10 minutes What words did you clarify? Who wants to restate the

information? Lets answer the Team Talk

questions!

Adventures in Writing- 15 minPage in Treasure Hunt

Imagine your house was a boat and that you lived on the sea. What would your life be like? What kinds of things would your

do for fun?

Vocabulary Practice-10 min• Complete vocabulary practice on

page

Fluency – 5 min

Read page 494 with partner. Give fluency score using fluency rubric.