Students will have reading instruction every day. The following lists the texts and focus for reading for the month of September: ​

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Objectives: Identify and use text features to facilitate understanding of informational text; Identify and explain the contributions of text features to meaning • Connections between text features and the main idea and/or reader’s understanding
Text: Iceberg Right Ahead
Vocabulary Words: timid, peculiar, trembling​​

BCR Question: How did one or more text features in the article help you better understand the text?  Use examples from the text to support your response.

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Objectives: Identify and explain what is directly stated in the text; Connect text to prior knowledge or experience; Determine important ideas and messages in informational text-paraphrase
Text: Hurricane Hunters
Vocabulary: drought, slumped, sharply

SR Question: Which is an example of way to paraphrase the following sentence?

Hurricanes are violent storms with high winds, heavy rains, and sometimes hail.

A) Hurricanes occur every year.
B) Hurricanes are dangerous storms.
C) People who study hurricanes have to be brave.
D) The center of a hurricane is called the eye.

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Objectives: Make predictions and ask questions about the text; Use strategies to make meaning from text.
Text: The Comeback Humpbacks
Vocabulary: persisted, satisfaction, consent

SR: Which question is not answered in the text?
A) Why do humpback breach?
B) How much do humpback whales weigh?
C) How can blubber be used by people?
D) What is the life span of a humpback whale?

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