LEONARDO’S HORSE

Written by Jean FritzIllustrated by Hudson Talbott

Question of the DayQuestion of the Day

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Listening Comprehension

From the Notebooks of

Leonardo

Expository NonfictionExpository Nonfiction

-gives facts about a topic

-has detail sentences that support

the topic sentence

Comprehension Comprehension StrategyStrategy

Use Graphic OrganizersUse Graphic Organizers

Cause

Use Graphic OrganizersUse Graphic Organizers

Effect Effect Effect

Focus Skill (p. 200Focus Skill (p. 200--201)201)

Text Structure: Text Structure: SequenceSequence

One kind of text structure is One kind of text structure is

sequence, where authors tell a story sequence, where authors tell a story sequence, where authors tell a story sequence, where authors tell a story

in time order.in time order.

First

Event

Next

Event

Next

Event

Last

Event

VocabularyVocabulary (p. 202(p. 202--203)203)

•scholars

•specialized

•envisioned

•proportion•specialized

•gesture

•proportion

•resisted

scholars

� Scholars are people who have studied certain topics and know a lot about them.

specialized

� Someone who has specialized in something has given it most of his time and attention.

Florida specializes in…

gesture

� A gesture is something you say or do to express a feeling to someone.

The Statue of Liberty was a gesture of gesture of friendship from France.

What a nice gesture!

resisted

� If a person or an object has resisted, that person or object refuses object refuses to change or accept.

� Synonym: oppose

This phone is suppose to resist water.

proportion

� If something is in proportion, none of its parts are too large or too small.

These parts are out-of-proportion!

envisioned

� If you have something on your mind, you have envisioned it.it.

Genre StudyGenre Study

Narrative NonfictionNarrative Nonfiction tells

about people, events, or places that are real.that are real.

�� As you read, look forAs you read, look for

◦◦ events told in time orderevents told in time order

◦◦ factual information that tells a factual information that tells a storystory