1. How Tia Lola Came to Visit Stay
By Julia Alvarez

2. Set the Stage!
Today you will start reading How Tia Lola Came to Stay, by Julia Alvarez. As you read you will draw conclusions from information in the text. Good readers know that authors don’t tell them everything, and that a lot of information can guessed from information in the text. Drawing conclusions helps good readers better understand stories

3. Reading/Team Cooperation Goal
Today’s reading objective will be drawing conclusions. Students will draw conclusion based on the information they have read. Today’s team cooperation goal is everyone participates. Good readers make sure all team members are participating and have a say in the work that is being done.

4. How Tia Lola Came to Stay By Julia Alvarez
Days : 1-4
Reading Goal: Drawing conclusions
Team Cooperation Goal: Everyone participates
Genre: Narrative

5. Rate and Review faded gazes trimmed wobbly discovers odd
Rate and review your vocabulary words by yourself. Ask yourself :
Can you read the word?
Can you define the word?
Can you use the word in a sentence?
Be honest with yourself.

6. Check out our vocabulary words!

7. faded Became less bright
The bright light of the sun faded away as the sun went down over the horizon.

8. discovers
finds
While searching in Siberia, scientist discovers a baby wooly mammoth that was buried in a glacier thousands of years ago.

9. trimmed
clipped
My little brothers hair had gotten so long that he had to go to the barber and have it trimmed.

10. wobbly
shaky
Anthony was a wobbly rider when he first began to ride his bike but he soon got the hang of it.

11. odd
strange
The star nosed mole is an odd little animal that most people never see.

12. gazes
looks
The little girl gazes up into the sky waiting anxiously for Santa and his reindeer to fly by.

13. Building Background- Drawing conclusions
How do detectives solves crimes? Do criminals stand up and say, “I’m guilty, I did it!” What does a detective have to do? Terry went to her friend May’s house to play. As soon as Terry walked in the front door her eyes started to water. Within a few minutes she had started to sneeze. Terry saw that may had a litter box next to the back door in her house. “Oh, no,” she said, sneezing loudly. “I’m sorry, May, but I don’t think I can play here!”

14. Listening Comprehension: Charlotte’s Web
Read Pages Remember you are going to draw conclusion from the information in Charlotte’s Web based on the information in the story. You have to look for clues!

15. How Tia Lola Came to Visit Stay
Prepare to read-707
Text, illustrations and author information
Realistic Fiction: Text that is made up, but the characters and events are so lifelike that the story seems as if it must be true. As you read, think about what makes this story seem as if it could happen in real life.
Preview Team Talk questions

16. Partner Read- 15 minutes
As you read through the pages identify unfamiliar words. Put 2 sticky notes on words that are new or unfamiliar to you. As you read you will use your clarification strategies to define the word or idea.
Restate each page (or paragraph) as you read (summarizing)
Read and restate pages 692 with partners- You must restate what you have read!
Clarifying – use chart to clarify a word
Read 694 silently
Discuss and answer all Team Talk Questions
Answer 2 and 3 in your journals
New skill-Recipicol Teaching
Clarifying
Questioning
Predicting
Summarizing

17. Class Discussion-10 minutes
What words did you clarify?
Who wants to restate the information?
Lets answer the Team Talk questions!

18. Vocabulary Practice-10 min
Complete vocabulary practice on page

19. Adventures in Writing- 15 min
Page in Treasure Hunt Imagine your house was a boat and that you lived on the sea. What would your life be like? What kinds of things would your do for fun?

20. Fluency – 5 min
Read page 494 with partner. Give fluency score using fluency rubric.