Lost City

4.5.2

This weeks question

curiosity

granite

glorious

ruins

terraced

torrent

thickets

Vocabulary Practice

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What words do you

know that have these
roots?

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Fluency Focus

Appropriate Phrasing
Reading smoothly and at the right speed
helps you make sense of what you read.
Pause at periods, commas, and endmarks.
Practice it:
Look

at page 215. Listen to how I group words

and phrases and pause at punctuation. Try
reading aloud the same passage as I did.

Comprehension skill:
Compare & Contrast

Informational text
(expository writing) can be
presented as chronological,
categorical, comparecontrast, cause-effect,
problem-solution, or
proposition-support.
Because informational text
structure is not predictable,
students have to read for
more than just ideas and
details. They have to read
for how the details are
related to one another.

Visualize

Good readers
transform words
into mental
images. This
helps you better
understand what
your read.

Apply your knowledge.

As we read Lost City: The Discovery of Machu

Picchu this week, try to make text to self, text to
text, and text to world connections. These
connections are comparisons.

Once you generate a response, think. Do

details in the text support my thinking?
If you can find specific excerpts that reflect
your thinking you have supported your claim.
If you can NOT find text evidence, re-read
to clarify your understanding and make a
new claim.

Expository Text Structure

The main purpose of expository text is to inform or

describe. Authors who write expository texts research
the topic to gain information. The information is
organized in a logical and interesting manner using
various expository text structures.

Look Back and Write

Look back at pages 208-209.
Why do you think Hiram
Bingham considered the old
stone wall on Cusco to be such
a mystery? Provide evidence
to support your answer.

Written Response to text

Double means two.

Double consonants are two letters (not vowels)
that are repeated within a word.