Unit Seven

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Unit Seven

• Fantasy

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James and the Giant Peach

• Interactive reading
• Paired reading
• Independent reading
• Choral reading

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Vocabulary Development

• Lessons 2,3,6,7,8,9
• Lesson 4 monitor comprehension/word
  identification
• Suggested words (A8)
• Suggested strategies (A7)

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Vocabulary Strategies (A7)

• Predict-O-Gram
• Contextual Redefinition
• Browsing for New Words
• Vocabulary in Context
• Word structure
• Sound/symbol
• Syntax
• Semantic

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Ongoing Activities

• Prediction Chart (A2)
• Class Story Map (A6)

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Looking at the Lessons
Unit 7 James and the Giant Peach
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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 1
• What is fantasy
• Focused writing

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 2
• Characterization
• Fluency and expression

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Character Maps (B2)

• Read Chapters 1 and 2.
• Complete the character map for James.
• Add text evidence for his actions, words and
  thoughts, appearance, and interactions with
  others.
• Based on text evidence, what are his traits and
  feelings? Fill in the outer rim of the character
  map. (B3,B4)

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 3
• Using literature as a model
• Punctuation

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 4
• Literature as model of writing
• Using details

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Descriptive Writing

• Study the picture.
• List words and phrases
• What do you see?
• What do you think is happening?
• What do you think of the picture?

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 5
• Literature as model of writing
• Literature circles
• Composition
• Story planning

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 6
• Articles a, an, the
• Story draft

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Descriptive Writing

• Using the words and phrases listed for the Harris
  Burdick picture, plan and draft a composition.

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 7
• Verb tense
• Revision adding and taking out

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 8
• Revision clarity and precise language
• Portfolio conferences

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 9
• Revision - sentence variety unnecessary words

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Revision

• Reread your composition draft.
• Revise it for sentence variety.
• Simple, compound, complex
• Short, long
• Declarative, interrogative, imperative,
  exclamatory
• Try reading it aloud and working with a partner.

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 10
• Reading response
• Editing and proofreading

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 11
• Reading response
• Choral reading
• Authors chair

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Looking at the Lessons

• Lesson 12
• Choral reading (B18,B19)
• Authors chair

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Assessment Opportunities

• Ongoing informal assessment
• Character map (B2)
• Independent reading questions (A9,B5)

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Assessment Opportunities

• Reading response (B17)
• Story (B9)
• Portfolio conference (B13)
• Choral reading (B19)

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Major Concepts and Skills

• Reading and Comprehending Fantasy
• Fluency and Expression

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Major Concepts and Skills

• Characterization
• Text Evidence
• Reading Response
• Vocabulary Development

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Major Concepts and Skills

• Writing Process
• Focus
• Organization
• Descriptive writing
• Word choice
• Sentence variety

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Major Concepts and Skills

• Conventions
• Articles
• Punctuation
• Verb tense
• Self-evaluation

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Adaptations

• Alternate Chapter Book
• Using the Basal
• Extension Activities

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Using the Basal

• Limited selections
• Open Court
• Mrs. Frisby and the Crow
• Harcourt
• Charlottes Web
• The Cricket in Times Square

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Extension Activities

• Viewing the movie
• Educational purpose
• Compare/contrast with book
• Production techniques

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Extension Activities

• Science
• Read/research the creatures James meets in the
  peach. Compare and contrast the actual creatures
  with Dahls characters.
• Read/research weather phenomena, such as hail and
  rainbows.
• McGraw-Hill Science Chapters 7 and 11

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Extension Activities

• Social Studies
• Trace the journey of James from England across
  the Atlantic Ocean to New York.