LESSON 4

Mysteries and Investigations

Unit 1
Ms. Hines
We will…
 Turn to p. 37 in our Student Workbook and
record what we will read today on our
“Daily Independent Reading Log”
Read silently the whole time.
Enjoy the book
Not disturb others

Independent
Reading
WORD STUDY
1. invisible
2. disguise
3. response
 SUMMARIZE
1. What is the most important event
that happened first in the story?
2. Then what?
3. Finally?

1 2 3
 Targe
t W or
1. in
visible d s
2. di (p. 49
sguise )
 Today we will read
(p. 52)
Chapters 7 and 8 of
Ziggy and the Black
Dinosaurs.
 p.47 “box of bones”
 p.51”Nairobi”

READ ALOUD- THINK ALOUD

Classroom Conversation
What connections did we make?
How did our connections help us
understand Ziggy?
What do we know about the bones?
What do you think will happen
next? Why?
WORD STUDY PAUSE
 You may either write a definition for the
target words or write sentences that show
their meaning.
 These are two ways that readers use to learn
new words.
 invisible/visible
 What is the relationship between these two
words?
 How can we show their relationship on the back
of our vocabulary cards?
 Review your flashcards

ASSESSMENT TIME
 Formative Assessment over Target
Words
 Blue or black ink only
 When you finish, place your assessment
face down on the front table.
 Get your binder from the 3rd shelf
 Take your notebook out of your binder.
 Place a “Reading Notebook” label in the
middle of your notebook (see Joshua)
SETTING UP YOUR NOTEBOOK
 Put your first and last name on the notebook.
 Write readers notebook on it.
 Put what block you are in.
TABLE OF CONTENTS (PAGE 1)
Date Title Page #
My Reflections 2

Independent Menu 185

USING A PENCIL, DO THE
FOLLOWING:
 Start to number the pages
front and back, starting
at 1.
 Number until the end of
the notebook.
 If you mess up, start over.
 WHOLE CLASS INSTRUCTION
 In the previous lesson we learned
about “Character Traits”
 One thing that good readers
sometimes do to show that they
understand what they are reading
is to write a response.
 Today you will learn how to write
a response.
RESPONSE r y
b u l a
o ca
 To reply V rd
 To react Ca
 It’s like a conversation
 One person says something and the
other person responds
 When we respond to something we
read, we write about what’s in the
story and our own ideas/feelings
about the story.
RESPONSE TO ZIGGY
I am reading Ziggy and the Black
Dinosaurs by Sharon Draper. On pages 43–

sample
44 Jerome is talking with his
grandmother. I like this part of the story
because it reminds me of times when I
would talk to my grandmother when I was
a little kid. Like Jerome’s grandmother,
my grandmother used to tell me stories
about the history of my family. I really
liked to hear the stories that she told me.
 PARTS OF A RESPONSE
 Tells the name of the book
and the pages
 Tells something in the
book in sentences
 Tells the reader’s ideas
about the part of the book
in sentences
 Turn to Section II in your handbook and
find the place for your independent menu
 An independent menu is like a menu at a
restaurant
 It is a list of choices that you can make.
In class, it contains choices about how to
spend your time in the work period.
 On most days there will be a specific
task/assignment that you will have to do.
 If you finish early, you can work from
your independent menu.
YOUR INDEPENDENT MENU
(COPY INTO YOUR HANDBOOK)
Menu Item Description
1. You have the choice to
1.Read continue reading in your
independently independent reading
book. You may choose a
new book when you
finish one.

2. Write a 2. You must write a

response to reading at
response least once a week
 On your Exit Ticket

TIME TO RESPOND

Date: 9.7.10
Title: Ziggy
 Ways that you can respond:
1. A connection to your own knowledge that
you have made
2. An idea about what is going to happen in the
story
3. Your ideas about one of the characters
4. How the story is like something else that you
have read
 When you finish, choose something off you
independent menu to do until 2:30.
Vocabulary
Quilt
(homework)
 Author’s Chair
 CLOSING
 When you learn one word
you can easily learn 3 or 4
more.
 Look at your flash cards and
see if you can find other
word families.