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Building Background Knowledge the Most Beautiful Roof in the World

  • Mar 14, 2019 - MID-UNIT ASSESSMENT: TEXT-DEPENDENT SHORT ANSWER QUIZ

  • Mar 14, 2019 - READING INFORMATIONAL TEXT FOR DETAILS: MEG'S RAINFOREST EXPERIMENT (PAGES 17-20) In advance: View and become familiar with the video used in the Engaging the Reader segment of this lesson. Prepare...

  • Mar 14, 2019 - CLOSE READING IN EXPERT GROUPS: WHAT IS IT LIKE IN THE RAINFOREST CANOPY? (PAGES 13-16) This lesson follows a basic Jigsaw structure, in which students first become experts on a chunk of text and...

  • Mar 14, 2019 - CLOSE READ: BLUE CREEK, A RAINFOREST IN BELIZE (PAGE 12) In advance: Read and become familiar with page 12 of The Most Beautiful Roof in the World and the Text-Dependent Questions for this text...

  • Mar 14, 2019 - SUPPORTING AN OPINION: WHY IS THE RAINFOREST CANOPY A DIFFICULT PLACE TO RESEARCH? (PAGES 9-10) In advance: Read pages 9–10 of The Most Beautiful Roof in the World. During the Group Read (Work Time,...

  • Mar 14, 2019 - READING AND WRITING ABOUT HOW TO PERFORM A PROCESS: HOW MEG LOWMAN STUDIES THE RAINFOREST (PAGES 4-8) This lesson involves students working with specimens from the natural world.

  • Mar 14, 2019 - INTRODUCTION TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ROOF IN THE WORLD: WHY DOES MEG LOWMAN RESEARCH THE RAINFOREST? (PAGES 2-4) This lesson opens with a quick activity about Meg Lowman and her research. This activity...

  • Mar 14, 2019 - CASE STUDY: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ROOF IN THE WORLD AND THE WORK OF RAINFOREST SCIENTIST MEG LOWMAN In this unit students will continue to build new reading skills and learn about the process scientists...

  • Mar 14, 2019 - SCIENCE TALK Become familiar with the Science Talk protocol. Consider the suggested compelling questions in the lesson; feel free to craft a different question if students have become interested in...

  • Mar 14, 2019 - END-OF-UNIT 1 ASSESSMENT: COMPARING AND CONTRASTING TEXTS ABOUT BIODIVERSITY IN THE RAINFOREST In this lesson, students formally self-reflect on learning targets for the second time.

  • Mar 14, 2019 - SYNTHESIZING INFORMATION: LIVING THINGS IN THE RAINFOREST In this lesson, students reread several texts that they have seen in other lessons. Be sure that students have access to the texts read in...

  • Mar 14, 2019 - ANALYZING DOCUMENTARY VIDEOS: "GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST REMOTE CAMERA PROJECT" BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA During this lesson, students view this short video three times. During the first two viewings, the...

  • Mar 14, 2019 - INFORMATIONAL TEXT FEATURES: ANALYZING "HAWAII'S ENDANGERED HAPPY FACE SPIDER" Make sure all anchor charts from previous lessons in this module are visible to students. Prepare a music selection for...

  • Mar 14, 2019 - SUMMARIZING INFORMATIONAL TEXT: "HAWAII'S ENDANGERED HAPPY FACE SPIDER" Make sure all anchor charts from lessons 1 to 3 are visible to students. Review "Hawaii's Endangered Happy Face Spider" Review...

  • Mar 14, 2019 - CONTINUED CLOSE READ OF "SLOTH CANOPY RESEARCHER: BRYSON VOIRIN" Be ready to return students' annotated texts (Reading an Interview, from Lesson 2). Review: Glass, Bugs, Mud protocol in Checking for...

  • Mar 14, 2019 - READING AN INTERVIEW: "SLOTH CANOPY RESEARCHER: BRYSON VOIRIN" In this lesson students set up their glossaries at the back of their journal. This is in effect a vocabulary notebook for the module....

  • Teacher helping elementary students

    Mar 14, 2019 - BUILDING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE: EXAMINING THE UNIQUE LIVING THINGS OF THE RAINFORESTS AND THE SCIENTISTS WHO STUDY THEM In this lesson, students set up their reading journal, in which they will keep...

  • Students listening

    Mar 14, 2019 - BUILDING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE: HOW SCIENTISTS COMMUNICATE ABOUT THE LIVING THINGS OF THE RAINFOREST In this first unit, students will explore the question: "What is unique about living things in the...

  • Children Reading

    Mar 13, 2019 - Researching to Build Knowledge and Teaching Others: Biodiversity in Rainforests of the Western Hemisphere This module—intended to be used in conjunction with a Social Studies unit about Latin America...

  • Boy Doing Homework

    Feb 03, 2019 - The following materials are available for Domain 2: The Human Body:  Anthology Flip Book Image Cards Supplemental Guide Lesson Exemplars for ELLs/MLLs

  • Jan 02, 2019 - In order to assist educators with the implementation of the Common Core, the New York State Education Department provides curricular modules in P-12 English Language Arts and Mathematics that schools...

  • Jan 02, 2019 - In order to assist educators with the implementation of the Common Core, the New York State Education Department provides curricular modules in P-12 English Language Arts and Mathematics that schools...

  • Jan 02, 2019 - In order to assist educators with the implementation of the Common Core, the New York State Education Department provides curricular modules in P-12 English Language Arts and Mathematics that schools...

  • Jan 02, 2019 - In order to assist educators with the implementation of the Common Core, the New York State Education Department provides curricular modules in P-12 English Language Arts and Mathematics that schools...

Building Background Knowledge the Most Beautiful Roof in the World

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