Unit 2 Week3 Lesson 9

Read Literature Anthology

Turtle, Turtle, Watch out
Survival Of Turtle
Comprehension Skill Review: Topic and Details

The Main Topic is what the selection is about.

Often, the author lets us know the main topic at the beginning of the
selection.

Key details are important pieces of information in a text.

 The key details are the most important details of a selection. They give the most
information about the topic.
 Key details in informational text may be facts or explanations. They help the reader
understand the topic.
 Key details can be found by looking at the text of a selection and by looking at the
illustrations or photos.
Story Words-learn the new vocabulary
racoon hatch nest wiggle absorb

hatchling surface scramble seaward tumble

shore onward algae weathered dip

继续的，向前的

slip clog belly sunken sewn(sew)

 Review Genre: Nonfiction Narrative
EX
The main characteristics of nonfiction narrative:
1 ■ tells about living things, people, or events.
■ is told by a narrator and follows a sequence.
■ has text features such as headings and bold print.

Preview and Predict

Q2
What do you think this selection is going
to be about?
Why might Turtle have to watch out?
 Q3

Q5

Skill: Main Topic and Key Details

Often, the author lets us know the main topic at the Q4
beginning of the selection. Read the first paragraph.
Author Craft 作者技巧
What do you think is theWhy
topic of this selection?
does the writer use the large, boldface( 黑
体 ) here?
What do you think the writer wants you to know
with the line, Turtle, Turtle, watch out? Close Reading
The life of a sea turtle
How do people keep the
turtle eggs from danger?
 Close Reading
What does the writer indicate ( 暗示 )
with the line, Tuttle sees none of
this, inside her egg.
Reread
After reading pages 168 and 169, why Q6
are the people putting wire and the
painted sign around the nest?
Q7
 Q9

Skill: Main Topic and Key Details

On these pages we read about an
important detail in the life of the sea
turtle. What happens? Let’s add the
first detail to our graphic organizer.

The turtle
hatches and
crawls toward yolk
the light.

Visualize
Q8 The author repeat the phrase here.
Picture in your mind, what does the
author’s want to express to
 Q
10

Make prediction
What other dangers do you predict she
will face now that she is living in the
ocean?
 Skill: Main Topic and Key Details
Turn to a partner and discuss what important Q
details you read on pages 174–175. Add 11

them to your Main Topic and Key Details

Chart.

The turtle drifts

on the ocean
currents,
eats, and grows.
Q What’s problem may the turtle
12 encounter when they find food?
 Maintain Skill: Key Details:
Q How does the illustration on pages 176 and
13 177 help you to understand the kind of
danger the turtle is in?

BACK TO TEXT EVIDENCE

 weathered hands

Closing Reading Q
Who do you think sewn the hatch onto the net? 14

Why did he do that?

Maintain Skill: Key Details:

Discuss how the illustration on page 179 helps you to Q
15
understand what an escape hatch is and how it helps
the turtle.
 Skill: Main Topic and Key Details
So far, we have identified the topic and key
Q
details about the turtle’s life. What does the
16 turtle do after 20 years of living in the ocean?
Let’s add that last key detail to our Main Topic
and Key Details Chart.

Return to Predictions and Purposes

Review your predictions. check if their predictions
Q
17 about the selection were correct.
Use evidence in the text to confirm whether or not
The turtle
their predictions turned out to be accurate( 精确的 ). returns to the
beach where she
was born to lay
her eggs.
Summarize
Use important details from the beginning, middle, and end to summarize the selection.
Information from your Main Topic and Key Details chart may help you.
1. How do you know Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out! is narrative nonfiction? GENRE

2. What kind of dangers does a turtle face as it grows up? Use details from the

selection to support your answer. MAIN TOPIC AND KEY DETAILS

3. Use what you know about suffixes to figure out the meaning of the word restless

on page 176.. SUFFIXES

4. Write about what helps the turtles to survive. Use details from the selection to
LINK TO PAGE 176

support your answer. WRITE ABOUT READING

5.What are the features of the ocean habitat where turtles live? ESSENTIAL

QUESTIONS

6. What things do the people help turtles to survive in the selection? CLOSE

READING
THANKS