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Letters Home from Yosemite

Today you will…

• Finish reading the text• Answer questions from the text• Answer vocabulary questions

Team Cooperation GoalComplete tasks

Title: Letters Home from Yosemite

Reading Goal: Main Idea and supporting details

Team Cooperation Goal: Completing TasksGenre: ExpositoryAuthor: Lisa Halvorsen

Review Vocabulary with Partner

Can you say it?Can you define it?Can you say it in a sentence?

Vocabulary Vault

Letters Home from Yosemite

Let’s finish filling in our SQRRRL Maps

Where is Yosemite

National Park

Letters from

Yosemit

•In the Sierra Nevada Mountains•Mountains cover 15.5 million acres•Yosemite Valley is 7 miles long and 1 mile wide

•3,200 feet above the valley floor•Lovely view of park features•Good place to watch the peregrine falcons

•Spanish for “the captain”•Biggest block of granite on Earth•Famous climbing spot•3,600 feet high•Ribbon Fall plunges 1,612 feet

Topography Wildlife

Glacier Point El Capitan

•Black bears often raid camps for food•Mule deer graze by roadside•Bobcats, coyote, jackrabbits, marmots, sheep, rattlesnakes

Let’s answer the question.

Where is Yosemite located?

• Yosemite is located in California about four hours south of San Francisco.

• When you arrive in Yosemite, you will be greeted by Arch Rock.

Test Day

• Today you will finish reading Letters Home from Yosemite. You will learn a few more amazing facts about this special place.

• You will work on this alone• You will use your strategies to answer the

questions• Add main ideas and supporting details to your

tree maps• You will have 35 minutes

Team Discussion-15minutes

• Discuss the strategies that you used• Discuss the answers to the test• Add anything else to your tree maps

Class Discussion

• Let’s review the answers to the test