Night of the Pufflings

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Night of the Pufflings

• By Bruce McMillan

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Meet the Author

• Bruce McMillan

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Predict and Share

• What do you think the story is going to be about?
• Why do you think this?

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Genre and Summary

• Genre Nonfiction
• Summary
• On Heimaey Island, near Iceland, a community
  works together to help young birds called
  pufflings return safely to the sea.

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Focus Skill - Summarize

• Use Decoding/Phonics
• Make and Confirm Predictions
• Create Mental Images
• Self-Question
• Summarize-Focus Skill
• Read Ahead
• Reread to Clarify
• Use Context to confirm meaning
• Use text structure and format
• Adjust reading rate-Focus Strategy

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Summarize

• A good summary tells the most important ideas in
  a few words. It does not include opinions or
  descriptions.
• When you read your should summarize the most
  important ideas of the text. Summarizing will
  help you better understand what you have read.

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Focus StrategyAdjust Reading Rate

• Good readers use different strategies to help
  them understand what they read.
• You should read some texts, such as those with
  many facts and details, more slowly than other
  texts.
• You should adjust your reading rate according to
  the kind of text you are reading.

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Strategy ? Skill Connection

• If you are trying to summarize a nonfiction
  selection with many facts and details, you should
  adjust your reading rate by slowing down to make
  sure you understand what you are reading.

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All About Puffins

• Click here to learn about Puffins
• More on the Puffin

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Building Background

• In the next selection, children in Iceland save
  the lives of thousands of baby puffins.
• What are some ways that people help animals?
• Use the web on the next page.

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Building Background
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Building Background

• When might animals need help from people?
• What might you learn from caring for an animal?
• How should you act when you take care of an
  animal?

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VOCABULARY

• Uninhabited
• Burrows
• Venture
• Stranded
• Nestles
• Instinctively

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Uninhabited

• Un-in-hab-it-ed
• Adj.
• Having no people living there

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Burrows

• Bur-rows
• n/v
• Holes in the ground made by animals

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Venture

• Ven-ture
• V
• Go out in to a dangerous place

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Stranded

• Strand-ed
• Verb/adj.
• Left behind or in a helpless situation

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Nestles

• Nest-les
• Verb
• Moves snugly next to

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Instinctively

• In-stinc-tive-ly
• Adv
• Without thinking in a way that is natural

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Vocabulary Power

• Read Pages 206 and 207 in the book.
• What are things you do instinctively?
• Would you expect to find a restaurant on an
  uninhabited island? Why or why not?
• What are some animals that make burrows?
• What word is a synonym for snuggles?
• Would a cautious person venture into an
  unfamiliar place? Why or Why not?
• How is being rescued different from being
  stranded?

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After Youve Read

• Reading Skills Rocket Summarize
• Test Tutor Summarize
• Writing Detective Explaining a Process
• Grammar Practice Park Sentences
• Homework Helper Week 3