108 SMALL GROUP OPTIONS ORAL LANGUAGE • Build Background • Read Aloud • Expand Vocabulary VOCABULARY • Teach Words in Context • Paragraph Clues COMPREHENSION • Strategy: Make Inferences and Analyze • Skill: Character, Setting, Plot • Differentiated Instruction, pp. 143M–143V Oral Language Build Background ACCESS PRIOR KNOWLEDGE Share the following information. Wild animals include butterflies in Costa Rica and lions in Africa. TALK ABOUT WILDLIFE WATCHERS Discuss the weekly theme. ■ Have you seen any wild animals? ■ What was the most exciting thing you saw an animal do? FOCUS QUESTION Ask a volunteer to read “Talk About It” on Student Book page 109 and describe the photo. ■ What does the girl have on her shoulder? ■ What wild animal would you like to watch up close like this? Beginning Discuss Photograph Point to the frog and say, It’s a frog. It’s small. The frog is on the girl. Have students repeat. Have students point to items and say what they can about the photo. Ask: Who is the girl looking at? Who is the frog looking at? Intermediate Develop Concept Write the words pets and wildlife on the board. List some examples, both plants and animals. Ask: Do you think this frog is a pet or wild animal? Discuss with students animals they have seen or would like to see in the wild. Advanced Elaborate Repeat the Intermediate task but encour- age students to respond in more complex sentences. For example, I’d like to go and watch lions hunt in the wild. 108
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SMALL GROUP OPTIONS
ORAL LANGUAGE• Build Background
• Read Aloud
• Expand Vocabulary
VOCABULARY• Teach Words in Context
• Paragraph Clues
COMPREHENSION• Strategy: Make Inferences and
Analyze
• Skill: Character, Setting, Plot
• Differentiated Instruction, pp. 143M–143V
Oral LanguageBuild Background
ACCESS PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Share the following information.
Wild animals include butterflies
in Costa Rica and lions in Africa.
TALK ABOUT WILDLIFE WATCHERS
Discuss the weekly theme.
■ Have you seen any wild animals?
■ What was the most exciting thing
you saw an animal do?
FOCUS QUESTION Ask a volunteer to
read “Talk About It” on Student Book
page 109 and describe the photo.
■ What does the girl have on her
shoulder?
■ What wild animal would you like to
watch up close like this?
Beginning Discuss Photograph Point to the frog and say, It’s a
frog. It’s small. The frog is on the girl. Have students repeat. Have
students point to items and say what they can about the photo.
Ask: Who is the girl looking at? Who is the frog looking at?
Intermediate Develop Concept Write the words pets and wildlife
on the board. List some examples, both plants and animals. Ask: Do you
think this frog is a pet or wild animal? Discuss with students animals they
have seen or would like to see in the wild.
Advanced Elaborate Repeat the Intermediate task but encour-
age students to respond in more complex sentences. For example,
I’d like to go and watch lions hunt in the wild.
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Talk About ItWhat is the girl thinking?
What is the frog thinking?
Find out more about
wildlife at
www.macmillanmh.com
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Read AloudRead “Wild and Swampy”
GENRE: Personal
Memoir
Tell students a
memoir is a story
about the author’s
personal experience.
LISTENING FOR A
PURPOSE
Ask students to listen
for details that describe the setting,
and how it affects the animals, as
you read “Wild and Swampy” in the
Read-Aloud Anthology. Choose from
among the teaching suggestions.
Fluency Ask students to listen
carefully as you read aloud. Tell
students to listen to your phrasing,
expression, and tone of voice.
RESPOND TO THE MEMOIR
Invite students to discuss where near
their homes they could go to observe
animals in nature. Ask students to
describe the animals they would most
likely see there.
Expand VocabularyHave students identify three more
words in the narrative that relate to
this week’s theme of Wildlife Watchers.
Students can write the words in a word
journal and create new sentences using
each of the words.For an extended lesson plan and Web site activities for oral
language development, go to www.macmillanmh.com
Talk About It Student pages 108–109
Picture Prompt
Look at the picture. Write about what you see. You can write a poem,
a story, or a description, or use any other type of writing you like.
Make Inferences and AnalyzeCharacter, Setting, Plot Knowing the setting of a story can help readers make inferences and analyze why certain events occur and why characters feel or act the way they do.
A Setting Flow Chart can help you keep track of the setting, character, and events of a story. Reread the selection to learn how the story’s setting affects the main character.
disappointed. But it gave us a
chance to appreciate the beauty
of the Grand Canyon. The sunset
was amazing. It made the red and
gold colors of the canyon walls
positively glow.
We’ll be back on the river early
tomorrow, so I’d better zip up my
sleeping bag and get to sleep.
Before long, I was paddling
away and enjoying the amazing
wildlife overhead and along the
shore. We spotted a great blue
heron and a coyote. Then we
watched a mother beaver nuzzle her young gently with
her snout. Lisa said that if we
looked carefully, we might
even see a mountain lion!
I have to admit that
when it was time to get
off the river and set up
camp, I actually felt
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Fill in each blank with the correct vocabulary word.
Student Book pages 110–111 available on Comprehension Transparencies 5a and 5b
Dear Diary,
What an amazing day! I never
thought rafting could be so much
fun. Wait… I should probably back
up and explain what I was doing
on a raft in the fi rst place.
Today, my family and I started
our vacation. We’re taking a rafting
trip down the Colorado River. I
have to admit, it didn’t sound like
my idea of fun. The thought of
getting drenched by the river and
sleeping in tents with creepy bugs
and spiders kind of disgusted
me. But, unless I wanted to be
left behind, I had to put on my
lifejacket and join in.
Lisa, our guide, helped us get
our big, rubber raft into the river.
We joined the others, scattered
here and there along the river.
There were so many, it felt like
we were playing bumper boats!
Lisa had told us that the river
would narrow and we would be
a bit cluttered. Then the river
widened, and the rafts spread
out as we were carried in the
water’s fl ow downstream. At
fi rst, I just sat in the raft and
listened to my music. But when
we picked up speed, I realized
my help was needed.
Vocabularydisgusted cluttered
raft downstream
scattered nuzzle
Context CluesParagraph Clues are clues
within the same paragraph
to the meaning of an
unfamiliar word. Look for
clues within the paragraph
where cluttered appears to
figure out its meaning.
by Olivia Snow
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Vocabulary and Comprehension
Reread for Comprehension
Make Inferences and AnalyzeCharacter, Setting, Plot Knowing the setting of a story can help readers make inferences and analyze why certain events occur and why characters feel or act the way they do.
A Setting Flow Chart can help you keep track of the setting, character, and events of a story. Reread the selection to learn how the story’s setting affects the main character.
disappointed. But it gave us a
chance to appreciate the beauty
of the Grand Canyon. The sunset
was amazing. It made the red and
gold colors of the canyon walls
positively glow.
We’ll be back on the river early
tomorrow, so I’d better zip up my
sleeping bag and get to sleep.
Before long, I was paddling
away and enjoying the amazing
wildlife overhead and along the
shore. We spotted a great blue
heron and a coyote. Then we
watched a mother beaver nuzzle her young gently with
her snout. Lisa said that if we
looked carefully, we might
even see a mountain lion!
I have to admit that
when it was time to get
off the river and set up
camp, I actually felt
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111A
MODEL
Read aloud the first two paragraphs of the diary entry “Rafting—
Ready or Not” from Student Book page 110.
Think Aloud The narrator says that she didn’t want to go on
the rafting trip at first and that she is surprised by how much
fun it is. She recalls her idea of what the trip would be like:
getting drenched, sharing a tent with bugs and spiders. I’ll
have to keep reading to learn how her actual experiences on
the river changed her opinion.
GUIDED PRACTICE
■ Begin by asking students to write what the setting is in the
top box of the Setting Flow Chart. (the Colorado River, present)
■ Have students identify the first event during the trip that
caused a strong reaction in the narrator. Help them enter this
information on the Setting Flow Chart. (See chart at right.)
APPLY
■ Have students complete the Setting Flow Chart by identifying
two more plot events that are specific to the setting. Ask
students to summarize how the setting affected the narrator.
The characters are the people, and sometimes animals, in a story. The setting is where and when a story takes place. The plot is what happens in the story.
At last we arrived at the ocean cottage. My brother and I were too
excited to look around the house. We ran out to explore the shore. There
were tide pools and seaweed, and minnows swimming in a tide pool.
When I stuck my hand in the water, the little fish darted under a piece of
seaweed. Farther down the rocky coast, we saw a seal resting on a rock!
My brother and I were so excited about seeing the seal that we had
a hard time falling asleep that night. The next morning we ran to find
the seal again. It was gone! But then we heard barking. In the shallow
water near the shore, a dark head looked at us, barked once again, and
disappeared below the water.
1. Name the setting of the passage.
2. Who is the main character?
3. What happens in the fi rst part of the story?
4. What important discovery do they make while they are exploring?
5. How does the story end?
an ocean cottage, the shore
the narrator of the story
The children explore the shore.
They spot a seal.
The seal barks at them and swims away.
On Level Practice Book O, page 30
Approaching Practice Book A, page 30
Beyond Practice Book B, page 30
Vocabulary/Comprehension
Transparency 5
Settingthe Colorado River, present
Event Character’s Reaction
the raft picked up speed
realizes she must help by paddling
Event Character’s Reaction
birds and animals appear along the
river
awed and excited
Event Character’s Reaction
leaving the river to set up camp
disappointed but appreciates the
beauty around her
Setting Flow Chart
Graphic Organizer Transparency 5
During Small Group Instruction
If No Approaching Level Comprehension, p. 143O
If Yes On Level Options, pp. 143Q–143R
Beyond Level Options, pp. 143S–143T
Can students make inferences and analyze the characters,