McGraw Hill: Wonders Unit 4 BUNDLE VOCABULARY STUDY and introduction grade 4

Purpose: These introductory lessons provide digital pre-reading information for the author, genre, and setting. Fun facts, photo visuals, and video clips support the story details. The lessons also include vocabulary study, practice, and assessment for unit 4:

See How They Run

LaRue for Mayor

The Moon Over Star

Why Does the Moon Change Shape?

Poems- Swimming to the Rock and The Moondust Footprint

2017 edition

GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading story elements critical to comprehension and aligned to standards

AUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual classrooms

PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the PPT lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, Vocabulary Organizer, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key.

POWERPOINT:
• Title slides
-genre, author photo and short bio.

• 2 setting slides
-Location photos with map
-Time period photos

• Vibrant Vocab slides(look at individual lessons for vocabulary)
-bold photos appear without word for inference making
-vocab word 'slides in' so photo can be first WITHOUT the word
-part of speech
-concise definition

• Differentiated Vocabulary Worksheet/Answer Key-used as a pretest, posttest, or practice
• Quizlet practice link
• Part of speech sort
• Word connotation discussion slide

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:

· Introduce new story
· Provide backstory to text
· Stimulate group discussion
· Create predictions about text
· Use as distance learning resource
· Post on webpage for review
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Provide test review
· Prompt Writing or Research assignments
· Grammar study / parts of speech
· Discuss Word Connotation

PRINTABLE USES: word walls, printable, and interactive notebooks


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