Selection Lesson Plan

Lob’s Girl Pages 447–461

Core Objectives■ Understand and appreciate a short story■ Understand author’s use of foreshadowing■ Recognize cause and effect to help understand foreshadowing

Integrating SkillsGrammar Vocabulary■ Sentence Variety ■ Using Context Clues

With Prepositional ■ Learning and Remembering New WordsPhrases

■ Identifying Prepositions and Their objects

Preparing to ReadConnect to Your LifeBuild BackgroundVocabulary Preview: Using Context CluesFocus Your ReadingLiterary Analysis: ForeshadowingActive Reading: Cause and Effect

Teaching the LiteratureReading the Selection

Thinking Through the LiteratureConnect to the LiteratureThink CriticallyExtend InterpretationsLiterary Analysis: Foreshadowing

Choices and ChallengesWriting OptionsDog Care InstructionsPros-and-Cons ChartNewspaper Article

Activities and ExplorationsMap of Lob’s RouteFirst Aid Presentation

Inquiry and ResearchNo More Mystery?

Vocabulary in ActionAssessment PracticeLearn and Remember New Words

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❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 7

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 6

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 5

❑ PE pp. 448–458

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Summary, p. 4

❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T5

❑ Literary Analysis Transparencies, T27

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TerraNova ObjectivesR.02a, R.02b, R.03b, R.03c, R.03f, R.04b,R.04c, R.05a, R.05g, R.05h, R.08e, R.09a

Selection Lesson Plan (continued)

Lob’s Girl

Choices and Challenges (continued)Gammar in ContextUsing Prepositional Phrases as Transitions

Author ActivityThinking About Dialects

Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)Mini Lessons

Preteaching VocabularyUsing Context Clues

Vocabulary StrategyLearning and Remembering New Words

GrammarSentence Variety with Prepositional PhrasesIdentifying Prepositions and Their Objects

Viewing and RepresentingArt AppreciationMaggie by Judith S. RubinBreakers at Flood Tide by Frederick Judd Waugh

SpellingPrefix ad-

Cross Curricular Link

MathMiles to Kilometers

Health and ScienceHealth Benefits of Pet Ownership

Informal AssessmentUnderstanding the Feelings and Emotions of CharactersPredicting

AssessmentSelection QuizSelection TestTest Generator

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❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Grammar SkillBuilder, p. 8

❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C46

❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C47

❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C105

❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C101

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Spelling SkillBuilder, p. 9

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 10

❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 79–80

Selection Lesson Plan

My First Dive with the Dolphins Pages 465–475

Core Objectives■ Understand and appreciate an essay■ Understand author’s use of specialized language■ Make generalizations to help understand an essay

Integrating SkillsGrammar Vocabulary■ Streamlining Sentences ■ Using a Dictionary: Guide Words

Using Conjunctions■ Identifying Conjunctions

Preparing to ReadConnect to Your LifeBuild BackgroundVocabulary Preview: Using a Dictionary: GuideWordsFocus Your ReadingLiterary Analysis: EssayActive Reading: Making Generalizations

Teaching the LiteratureReading the Selection

Thinking Through the LiteratureConnect to the LiteratureThink CriticallyExtend InterpretationsLiterary Analysis: Essay

Choices and ChallengesWriting OptionsNew Point of ViewTime Line

Activities and ExplorationsUnderwater IllustrationInterview Role-Play

Inquiry and ResearchScience: Dolphin Facts

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❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 14

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 13

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 12

❑ PE pp. 466–472

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Summary, p. 11

❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T14

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TerraNova ObjectivesR.02a, R.02b, R.02c, R.03b, R.03f, R.04b,R.04c, R.05a, R.05b, R.05c, R.05d, R.05e,R.05g, R.05h, R.07b, R.08b, R.08f, R.08g,V.37a

❑ Writing Transparencies, T23

❑ Communications Transparencies and Copymasters, T13

❑ Writing Transparencies, T47

Selection Lesson Plan (continued)

My First Dive with the Dolphins

Choices and Challenges (continued)Vocabulary in ActionContext Clues

Grammar in ContextCombining Sentences by Joining Phrases

Author ActivityHelping the World

Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)Mini Lessons

Preteaching VocabularyUsing a Dictionary: Guide Words

GrammarStreamlining Sentences Using ConjunctionsIdentifying Conjunctions

Speaking and ListeningDolphin and Whale Sounds

SpellingChanging -t to -ce

Cross Curricular Link

ScienceDolphin Intelligence

Informal AssessmentMaking Generalizations

AssessmentSelection QuizSelection TestTest Generator

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❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C111

❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C109

❑ Communications Transparencies and Copymasters, T2

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Spelling SkillBuilder, p. 16

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 17

❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 81–82

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Grammar SkillBuilder, p.15

❑ Writing Transparencies, T19

Selection Lesson Plan

Something Told the Wild Geese / Questioning Faces Pages 476–480

Core Objectives■ Understand and appreciate poetry■ Understand author’s use of sound■ Think about word choice to help understand sound devices better

Preparing to ReadConnect to Your LifeBuild BackgroundFocus Your ReadingLiterary Analysis: Sound DevicesActive Reading: Word Choice

Teaching the LiteratureReading the Selection

Thinking Through the LiteratureConnect to the LiteratureThink CriticallyExtend InterpretationsLiterary Analysis: Sound Devices

Choices and ChallengesWriting OptionsField DiaryRhyming Couplets

Activities and ExplorationsMultimedia PresentationPlan for Help

Inquiry and ResearchBird Profile

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❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 19

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 18

❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T15

❑ Literary Analysis Transparencies, T20

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TerraNova ObjectivesR.02a, R.02b, R.03d, R.03f, R.04b, R.04c,R.05a, R.05f, R.05g, R.05h

❑ PE pp. 447–448

❑ Writing Transparencies, T16

❑ Writing Transparencies, T45

Selection Lesson Plan (continued)

Something Told the Wild Geese / Questioning Faces

Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)Mini Lessons

Viewing and RepresentingArt AppreciationSunset Kempenfelt Bay by Lawren Harris

Informal AssessmentImplied Main Idea

AssessmentSelection TestTest Generator

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❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 83–84

Selection Lesson Plan

Zlateh the Goat Pages 481–490

Core Objectives■ Understand and appreciate a short story■ Understand author’s use of climax■ Use story mapping to help understand a short story better

Integrating SkillsGrammar Vocabulary■ Punctuating ■ Using Compare and Contrast Clues

Appositives

Preparing to ReadConnect to Your LifeBuild BackgroundVocabulary Preview: Using Compare andContrast CluesFocus Your ReadingLiterary Analysis: Climax and ResolutionActive Reading: Story Mapping

Teaching the LiteratureReading the Selection

Thinking Through the LiteratureConnect to the LiteratureThink CriticallyExtend InterpretationsLiterary Analysis: Climax and Resolution

Choices and ChallengesWriting OptionsPersuasive ArgumentDialogue with Zlateh

Activities and ExplorationsLive Storytelling

Inquiry and ResearchPoland Today

Vocabulary and SpellingRelated WordsForms of the Prefix in-

Grammar in ContextAppositive and Appositive Phases

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❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 23

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 22

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 21

❑ PE pp. 482–487

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Summary, p. 20

❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T13

❑ Literary Analysis Transparencies, T8

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TerraNova ObjectivesL.38b, R.02a, R.02b, R.03g, R.04b, R.04c,R.05a, R.05c, R.05g, R.05h, R.08d, R.08g,S.40b, S.42a, S.42e

❑ Writing Transparencies, T24

❑ Communications Transparencies and Copymasters, T11

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Spelling SkillBuilder, p.25

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Grammar SkillBuilder, p.24

Selection Lesson Plan (continued)

Zlateh the Goat

Choices and Challenges (continued)Author ActivityFantastic Stories

Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)Mini Lessons

Preteaching VocabularyUsing Compare and Contrast Clues

GrammarPunctuating Appositives

Viewing and RepresentingArt AppreciationLa chèvre (Goat) by Pablo PicassoI and the Village by Marc Chagall

SpellingWords with ei and ie

Informal AssessmentDescribing Setting

AssessmentSelection QuizSelection TestTest Generator

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❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C49

❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C125

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 26

❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 85–86

Name DateWriting Workshop Lesson Plan

Process Description Pages 500–505

Writing PromptWrite an essay that tells how to do something or how something works. Focus on a task or a process that you know well.

PreparingIntroductionBasics in a BoxAnalyzing a Student Model“Scrambling for Eggs”

WritingPrewritingChoosing a SubjectPlanning Your Process Description

DraftingOrganizing the Draft

Peer ReviewAsk Your Peer Reader

RevisingDefining Unfamiliar Terms

Editing and ProofreadingTransitional Words and Phrases

Reflecting

Assessment PracticeRevising and Editing

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❑ Writing Transparencies, T1–4, T6, T9, T31

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Student Models, pp. 33–35

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Prewriting, p. 28

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Drafting and Elaboration, p. 29

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Peer Response Guide, pp. 30–31

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Revising, Editing, and Proofreading, p. 32

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Rubric for Evaluation, p. 36

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TerraNova ObjectivesR.02a, R.04c, R.05e, R.05g, R.08a, R.08b,R.08e, R.08g, R.09b

Writing Workshop Lesson Plan (continued)

Process Description

Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)Mini Lessons

Viewing and RepresentingPicturing Text Structure

GrammarTransitional Words and Phrases

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❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C112

Selection Lesson Plan

The Phantom Tollbooth Pages 512–554

Core Objectives■ To understand and appreciate fantasy■ To understand and appreciate a drama■ To use visualizing to help understand character, setting,

and action

Integrating SkillsGrammar Vocabulary■ Identifying Adverb Phrases ■ Synonyms

and the Words They Modify ■ Denotation and Connotation■ Identifying Adjective Phrases ■ Using Context Clues

and the Words They Modify ■ Homonyms and Homophones■ Using Commas to Prevent ■ Prefixes and Suffixes

Misreading ■ Commonly Confused ■ Punctuating Prepositional Homophones

Phrases

Preparing to ReadConnect to Your LifeBuild BackgroundVocabulary Preview: Analyzing Word Parts:Prefixes and SuffixesFocus Your ReadingLiterary Analysis: FantasyActive Reading: Visualizing

Teaching the LiteratureReading the Selection

Thinking Through the LiteratureConnect to the LiteratureThink CriticallyExtend InterpretationsLiterary Analysis: Fantasy

Choices and ChallengesWriting OptionsPlot AnalysisFantasy Word-Play

Activities and ExplorationsMap of the Lands BeyondDramatic Recording

Inquiry and ResearchSystems

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❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 40

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 39

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 38

❑ PE pp. 513–551

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Summary, p. 37

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TerraNova ObjectivesL.38b, R.02a, R.02b, R.03d, R.04b, R.04c,R.05a, R.05b, R.05d, R.05g, R.05h, R.09a,S.40b, S.42a, S.42b, S.42e, V.35a, V.35c,V.36a, V.37a

❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T13

❑ Communications Transparencies and Copymasters, T12

❑ Writing Transparencies, T45

Selection Lesson Plan (continued)

The Phantom Tollbooth

Choices and Challenges (continued)Vocabulary and SpellingLearning and Remembering New WordsThe Suffix -ance

Grammar in ContextPinpointing with Prepositions

Author ActivityPlay vs. Novel

Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)Mini Lessons

Preteaching VocabularyAnalyzing Word Parts: Prefixes and Suffixes

Vocabulary StrategySynonymsDenotation and ConnotationUsing Context CluesHomonyms and HomophonesPrefixes and SuffixesCommonly Confused Homophones

GrammarIdentifying Adverb Phrases and the WordsThey ModifyIdentifying Adjective Phrases and the WordsThey ModifyUsing Commas to Prevent MisreadingPunctuating Prepositional Phrases

Speaking and ListeningIntroduce Cast of CharactersVerbal Sword FightReaders TheaterBackground Music

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❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Spelling SkillBuilder, p.42

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Grammar SkillBuilder, p.41

❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C50

❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C51

❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C52

❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C53

❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C54

❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C55

❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C56

❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C104

❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C103

❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C123

❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C126

❑ Communications Transparencies and Copymasters, T13

❑ Communications Transparencies and Copymasters, T12

Homework Assignments Other Teaching Materials

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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)

The Phantom TollboothMini Lessons (continued)

Viewing and RepresentingArt AppreciationMilo and Rhyme and ReasonIllustration of Milo in his room by Bruce RobertsIllustration of Milo in his car by Jules FeifferMilo and Tock on the road to Dictionopolis Illustration of Dr. Dischord by Bruce RobertsThe Mathemagician asks a questionIllustration of Rhyme and Reason by Jules FeifferIllustration of Tock, Milo, and Humbug by Jules Feiffer

View and Compare pp. 527, 537, 541

SpellingNumber PrefixesThe Suffix -ance

Cross Curricular Link

MathematicsInfinity

HistoryCastles

Informal AssessmentArranging Details in Sequential OrderLog EntriesPrefixes and Suffixes

AssessmentSelection QuizSelection TestTest Generator

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 43

❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 89–90

Selection Lesson Plan

The Walrus and the Carpenter / Fairy Lullaby,from A Midsummer Nights’ Dream Pages 555–562

Core Objectives■ Understand and appreciate a narrative poem and a song■ Understand author’s use of realistic and fantastic details■ Use visualizing to help understand realistic and fantastic details

Integrating SkillsGrammar Vocabulary■ Parts of Speech ■ Using Antonyms

Preparing to ReadConnect to Your LifeBuild BackgroundVocabulary Preview: Using Context CluesFocus Your ReadingLiterary Analysis: Realistic and Fantastic DetailsActive Reading: Visualizing

Teaching the LiteratureReading the Selection

Thinking Through the LiteratureConnect to the LiteratureThink CriticallyExtend InterpretationsLiterary Analysis: Realistic and Fantastic Details

Choices and ChallengesWriting OptionsNarrative PoemEloquent Speech

Activities and ExplorationsPoem IllustrationsDramatic Reading

Inquiry and ResearchComparing Performances

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❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 45

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 44

❑ PE pp. 556–560

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TerraNova ObjectivesR.02a, R.02b, R.03d, R.03e, R.03g, R.04b,R.04c, R.05a, R.05b, R.05d, R.05f, R.05g,R.05h, R.08d, R.08g, V.35b

❑ Writing Transparencies, T17

❑ Writing Transparencies, T12

❑ Communications Transparencies and Copymasters, T12

❑ Communications Transparencies and Copymasters, T5

Selection Lesson Plan (continued)

The Walrus and the Carpenter / Fairy Lullaby

Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)Mini Lessons

Vocabulary StrategyUsing Antonyms

GrammarParts of Speech

Speaking and ListeningRecite a Narrative Poem Aloud

Informal AssessmentUsing Context Clues

AssessmentSelection TestTest Generator

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❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C57

❑ Communications Transparencies and Copymasters, T12

❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 91–92

Selection Lesson Plan

Three Limericks Pages 563–567

Core Objectives■ Understand and appreciate poetry■ Understand the poetic form limerick■ Use reading aloud to help understand and enjoy a limerick

Integrating SkillsGrammar■ Humor with Adjective Phrases

Preparing to ReadConnect to Your LifeBuild BackgroundFocus Your ReadingLiterary Analysis: Poetic Form: LimerickActive Reading: Reading Aloud

Teaching the LiteratureReading the Selection

Thinking Through the LiteratureConnect to the LiteratureThink CriticallyExtend InterpretationsLiterary Analysis: Poetic Form: Limerick

Choices and ChallengesWriting OptionsLimerick RetellingYour Own Limericks

Activities and ExplorationsIncredible Feats

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❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 47

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 46

❑ PE pp. 564–565

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TerraNova ObjectivesR.02b, R.03b, R.03d, R.03f, R.04b, R.04c,R.05a, R.05b, R.05e, R.05f, R.05h

Selection Lesson Plan (continued)

Three Limericks

Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)Mini Lessons

GrammarHumor with Adjective Phrases

Viewing and RepresentingView and Create Your Own Illustrations

Informal AssessmentPoint of View and Author’s Purpose

AssessmentSelection TestTest Generator

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❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C108

❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 93–94

Selection Lesson Plan

The Fun They Had Pages 574–579

Core Objectives■ Understand and appreciate a short story■ Understand author’s use of setting in science fiction■ Understand a short story better by identifying the purposes for

reading

Integrating SkillsGrammar Vocabulary■ Adverb Phrases That ■ Restatement and Definition Clues

Show Time

Preparing to ReadConnect to Your LifeBuild BackgroundVocabulary Preview: Restatement and DefinitionCluesFocus Your ReadingLiterary Analysis: SettingActive Reading: Purposes for Reading

Teaching the LiteratureReading the Selection

Thinking Through the LiteratureConnect to the LiteratureThink CriticallyExtend InterpretationsLiterary Analysis: Setting

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❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 52

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 51

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 50

❑ PE pp. 575–578

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Summary, p. 49

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Language Arts BenchmarksI-A.2, I-A.3, I-A.5, I-A.7, I-B.1, I-C.3, I-D.1,I-D.2, I-D.4, II-A.2, III-B.1, III-B.2

TerraNova ObjectivesR.02a, R.02b, R.03d, R.04b, R.04c, R.05a,R.05e, R.05g, R.05h

Selection Lesson Plan (continued)

The Fun They Had

Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)Mini Lessons

Preteaching VocabularyRestatement and Definition Clues

GrammarAdverb Phrases That Show Time

Speaking and ListeningComputer Dialogue in a Variety of Voices

Informal AssessmentLetters Between Characters

AssessmentSelection QuizSelection TestTest Generator

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❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C58

❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C106

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Grammar SkillBuilder, p.53

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 55

❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 95–96

Selection Lesson Plan

The Sand Castle Pages 580–586

Core Objectives■ Understand and appreciate a short story■ Understand author’s use of setting in science fiction■ Comparing and contrasting to help understand a short story better

Integrating SkillsGrammar Vocabulary■ Identifying Prepositions ■ Word Parts

and Their Objects

Preparing to ReadConnect to Your LifeBuild BackgroundVocabulary Preview: Word PartsFocus Your ReadingLiterary Analysis: SettingActive Reading: Compare and Contrast

Teaching the LiteratureReading the Selection

Thinking Through the LiteratureConnect to the LiteratureThink CriticallyPoints of ComparisonLiterary Analysis: Setting

Choices and ChallengesWriting OptionsMovie OutlineFuturistic Setting Description

Activities and ExplorationsKeepsake ScrapbookTechnology Interview

Inquiry and ResearchFuture Perfect

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❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 59

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 58

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 57

❑ PE pp. 581–584

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Summary, p. 56

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Language Arts BenchmarksI-A.1, I-A.2, I-A.3, I-A.5, I-A.7, I-B.1, I-B.2,I-B.3, I-C.3, I-D.1, I-D.2, I-D.4, II-A.2, III-B.1, III-B.2

TerraNova ObjectivesR.02b, R.03d, R.04b, R.04c, R.05a, R.05g,R.05h, R.09a, S.42c, S.42e

❑ Writing Transparencies, T22

❑ Communications Transparencies and Copymasters, T9

Selection Lesson Plan (continued)

The Sand Castle

Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)Mini Lessons

Preteaching VocabularyWord Parts

GrammarIdentifying Prepositions and Their Objects

Cross Curricular Link

ScienceEffects of the Sun’s Rays

Informal AssessmentVenn Diagram Comparison

AssessmentSelection QuizSelection TestTest Generator

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❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C59

❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C102

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 60

❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 97–98

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Grammar SkillBuilder, p. 60

Writing Workshop Lesson Plan

Short Story Pages 592–597

Writing PromptWrite a short story about an imaginary world or place that interests you.

PreparingIntroductionBasics in a BoxAnalyzing a Student Model“A World of Color”

WritingPrewritingChoosing a SubjectPlanning Your Comparison-and-Contrast Essay

DraftingOrganizing the Draft

Peer ReviewAsk Your Peer Reader

RevisingMaintaining Consistent Point of View

Editing and ProofreadingAppositive Phrases

Reflecting

Assessment PracticeRevising and Editing

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❑ Writing Transparencies, T1–4, T23, T39

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Student Models, pp. 69–71

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Prewriting, p. 64

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Drafting and Elaboration, p. 65

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Peer Response Guide, pp. 66 – 67

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Revising, Editing, and Proofreading, p. 68

❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Rubric for Evaluation, p. 72

NEW MEXICO PLANNER

Language Arts BenchmarksI-A.1, I-A.3, I-A.5, I-A.6, I-A.7, I-B.1, I-D.1,I-D.2, I-D.4, II-A.2, II-B.8, II-C.1, II-C.3, III-B.1, III-B.2

TerraNova ObjectivesL.38a, L.38b, L.38c, R.04c, R.05c, R.05g,R.07c, R.08b, R.08c, R.08g, R.09a, R.09b

Writing Workshop Lesson Plan (continued)

Short Story

Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)Mini Lessons

Viewing and RepresentingPicturing Text Structure

GrammarPunctuating, Choosing, and Incorporating Quotations

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❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T39

❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C1270