During this week's activities students continue to learn and apply reading strategies that will help them improve comprehension. They continue the use of context cxlues to determine meaning of unfamiliar words.
Seventh Grade students are reading the book "Rainforests," by Peter Murray. As they read the story, they will be using a K-W-L chart to track what they know about the topic, what they want to learn, and once they complete reading the story they will add
what they have learned. This unit will also tap into Science topic of biomes and interdependence of organisms in their ecosystem.
Our vocabulary words for this unit are: rainforest, liana, buttresses, ecosystem, nutrients, bacteria, species, canopy, epiphytes, carbon dioxide, and oxygen. Students will be working on the following assignments:
- K-W-L chart about rainforests
- Response to Literature
- Vocabulary cards
- Independednt Read Aloud for Fluency
- Writing prompt: Protecting the rainforest
Eigth Grade students will be reading the story" The Lost Expedition," by Barbara Brooks Simmons. As they read the story, students wil lbe completing a story map that they will later use to write a summary for the story.
This unit taps into Geography map skills, and will lead discussion about how our environment affects people.
Our vocabulary words for this unit are: floes, leads, adapted, challenges, obstacles, abandon, desolate, navigational, glaciers, salvage, currents and attempts. Students will be working on the following assignments:
- Story map
- Vocabulary cards
- Summary of the story
- Independent Read Aloud for Fluency
