1. The Sign of the Beaver Novel Study
Fourth Grade ELA
The Sign of the Beaver Novel Study
Week Twelve, Day One
This session will be recorded for learning purposes.  Learning purposes include: a lesson review for students who are absent, students who want to review for a test, etc. and will be distributed for learning purposes.

2. Review
Throughout this unit we will be covering ALL of the Reading Literature Standards for Fourth Grade!
Let’s Review!

3. Briefly review each standard

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7. Briefly review each standard

8. Phonics Phonics Objective: Phonics RF 4.3 Teacher Model: I DO
Ask students to explain the meaning copilot. Tell them that you coteach
Phonics
RF 4.3
Teacher Model: I DO

9. Getting Ready to Read
Although he faces responsibility bravely, thirteen-year-old Matt is more than a little apprehensive when his father leaves him alone to guard their new cabin in the wilderness. When a renegade white stranger steals his gun, Matt realizes he has no way to shoot game or to protect himself. When Matt meets Attean, a boy in the Beaver clan, he begins to better understand their way of life and their growing problem in adapting to the white man and the changing frontier.
Elizabeth George Speare’s Newbery Honor-winning survival story is filled with wonderful detail about living in the wilderness and the relationships that formed between settlers and natives in the 1700s.

10. With your buddy, find the definitions to the following words.
Send students into BO with a partner for a few minutes to try to find the definitions to the word using

11. Vocabulary reckoned = counted, calculated, or figured
notch = a cut or mark made in an object in order to keep a tally
loft = a room or storage area within a sloping roof
chink = a crack or narrow opening
ruefully = causing sorrow or pitty

12. The Sign of the Beaver
Historical Fiction = setting that attempts to show the way of life during a time in the past. May be based on real events, but also includes characters and experiences from the author’s imagination.
Have you read other historical fiction stories?
What do you know about America in the year 1768?

13. Where do you think Matt’s father is going? RL 4.1
Teacher Read Aloud
Where do you think Matt’s father is going?
RL 4.1
What can we tell about Matt based on evidence from the text thus far?
RL 4.3

14. How do you think Matt is feeling right now? How do you know?
Teacher Read Aloud
How do you think Matt is feeling right now? How do you know?
RL 4.1
Summarize Matt’s family’s plan.
RL 4.2
Reading Skill; Teacher models skill

15. What type of text is this? Poetry, drama, or prose?
Teacher Read Aloud
What type of text is this? Poetry, drama, or prose?
RL 4.5
Why does Matt think making notches is silly?
RL 4.1

16. Who is more nervous about Matt’s dad leaving?
Teacher Read Aloud
Who is more nervous about Matt’s dad leaving?
RL 4.1, 4.3

17. How would you feel if you were Matt?
RL 4.1

18. Team Reading
Reread the first chapter, then answer the questions using COMPLETE SENTENCES!

19. RL 4.2
RL 4.2
Save student examples to review whole group.
RL 4.1

20. Closure
What do you think about Matt so far? How would you describe him?

21. Homework
Your task tonight is to find out some facts about our author! Download the Author Study page from our website and we will share our findings tomorrow!
Place page on website. Does not need to be submitted