1. Rate the words as you come in. Do you know how to say the word? What it means? How to put it in a sentence? + + + + + + ? ? ?

2. Pyramids From Kids Discover

3. Team Cooperation Goal Explain Your Ideas/Tell Why

4. Title: Pyramids Reading Goal: Main Idea and Supporting Details Team Cooperation Goal: Explain Your Ideas/Tell Why Genre: Expository Author: From Kids Discover

5. concealed: hid The baby concealed himself from his mother, he hid from her under his bed.

6. massive : enormous Joanna reserved the massive ballroom for her wedding reception, it was enormous!

7. security: safety The police officer’s job was to make sure there was security during the game, he ensured safety for all the fans.

8. inspired : encouraged Rafael explained that he loved reading the poems about nature because they inspired him to write his own poems, he felt encouraged by other peoples’ writing.

9. valuable : of great worth Judy took special care of her valuable jewelry, it was of great worth.

10. connected : joined The railroad connected the two cities, it joined them together.

11. Review Vocabulary with Partner Can you say it? Can you define it? Can you say it in a sentence?

12. Vocabulary Vault

13. Building Background What kind of day did you have yesterday? Tell your partner at least two events that happened yesterday. What you have just done is restate main idea, where the kind of day you had was the main idea. Sometimes, author structure texts to help readers determine main ideas and supporting details. A section heading gives a clue about the main idea and supporting details. The section also contains details that support the summary statement.

14. Being on the moon Twelve different men have been on the moon. All of the men were Americans. In July of 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their spaceship, Eagle, in a place on the moon called the Sea of Tranquility. Over the next two and a half years, five more ships landed on the moon. Each ship had a two-man crew. The last manned ship to land on the moon was named Challenger. In December of 1972, Challenger landed in the Taurus-Littrow valley. Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt were the last two men to walk on the moon.

15. What is the main idea of this passage? What are some supporting details in this passage? Discuss with your partners.

16. Being on the moon Twelve different men have been on the moon. All of the men were Americans. In July of 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their spaceship, Eagle, in a place on the moon called the Sea of Tranquility. Over the next two and a half years, five more ships landed on the moon. Each ship had a two-man crew. The last manned ship to land on the moon was named Challenger. In December of 1972, Challenger landed in the Taurus-Littrow valley. Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt were the last two men to walk on the moon.

17. Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. Eugene and Harrison also landed on the moon but on the Taurus-Littrow Valley People have been to the moon. Presidents

18. Pyramids Text Structures Pyramids is also divided into sections and headings that help you as a reader figure out main ideas and supporting details. Usually texts in this format are expository. There are many pictures There are captions attached to pictures

19. Let’s look at the text structures in this book. How do we know that this book is an expository text?

20. Living in the troposphere, we feel the weather in the temperature of the air Tropo means change Weather is what's happening at the bottom of the atmosphere. Living on planet Earth there are different types of weather happening Presidents Earth’s atmosphere is driven by the Sun’s heat The atmospehre lets the sunlight pass through. Sunlight heats the ground The heat warms the surface that dissipates toward the atmosphere This is called the greenhouse effect How do we know that the Earth is actually getting hotter due to the Greenhouse Effect?

22. Preview the book What is one questions you have after previewing the book? Write this question in the space provided on your tree map.

23. Presidents Where exactly in the world are the pyramids located?

24. Team Talk Questions 1.Why does the author compare the weight of the pyramid’s stone to the weight of the elephants? 2.What was the purpose of the Egyptian pyramids? 3.How were the Pyramids in the Valley of the Kings different from other pyramids?

25. Partner Read- 15 minutes Write 2 unfamiliar words in your word journal Read and restate pages 308-311 Discuss with team words you clarified Find vocabulary words

26. Tree Map Decide as a group what the main idea was for each section Provide at least 3 details to support your main idea

27. Team Discussion-15minutes Discuss answers to team talk questions Team Talk procedures will be up! Write answers to question 2 and 3

28. #1 Reads the Question #2 Answers the Question #3 Agrees or disagrees with evidence from the text #4 Summarizes what the groups discussed

29. Class Discussion What words did your group clarify?

30. Writing Adventures- 15 min Pretend that you are building your own pyramid. What items do you want in the pyramid with you? Why are these items important to you?

31. Scoring Guide You answer the question25 points Your answer explains or describes with at least two details25 points Your answer makes sense and has Part of the question in it20 points Your answer is written in complete, correct sentences20 points Your writing has correct capitalization and punctuation10 points

32. Vocabulary Practice-10 min Divide your words with partner. Choose a word from your list to use in a meaningful sentence.

33. Fluency – 5 min Page 309

34. Fluency Rubric 100 pointsExpressiveness Smoothness Rate and correctness 90 pointsSmoothness Rate and correctness 80 pointsRate and correctness 70 pointsCorrectness