1. Identify meanings of spoken words 2. Determine explicit supporting details 3. Determine explicit explanation or cause 4. Determine explicit sentence or action 5. Determine implicit details, plot, sequence, or action 6. Distinguish between reality and make-believe 7. Draw conclusions from details 8. Form hypotheses from ideas in text 9. Apply ideas and information to new situations or problems from Details and ideas 10. Make generalizations beyond text 11. Determine implicit causes or effects of events or ideas 12. Extract implicit main idea or theme
Objective (s):
Students will use reading comprehension strategies to: understand literature, make predictions, and make inferences.
Students will gain a basic understanding of ocean currents.
Introduction:
Ask students to make predictions about the book Ten Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle.
Read the book while prompting the students to continue making predictions, and to make inferences within the story. Prompt students to make connections to other books.
After reading, prompt students to discuss how the author may have found inspiration for Ten Rubber Ducks.
Show students the interviews with Curtis Ebbesmyer, (the scientist who began studying the friendly floaters.)
Show students videos and charts that track the movements of the friendly floaters on the ocean currents.
Closure: Compare the book to the real story that inspired the book Ten Rubber Ducks. Show students the Beach Combers website so that they may continue to investigate the study of the ocean currents using floating objects that accidentally fell into the sea.
K3 K4 Read and discuss: Ten Rubber Ducks You and Me Little Bear Arty the Smarty
SAT Skill:
1. Identify meanings of spoken words
2. Determine explicit supporting details
3. Determine explicit explanation or cause
4. Determine explicit sentence or action
5. Determine implicit details, plot, sequence, or action
6. Distinguish between reality and make-believe
7. Draw conclusions from details
8. Form hypotheses from ideas in text
9. Apply ideas and information to new situations or problems from
Details and ideas
10. Make generalizations beyond text
11. Determine implicit causes or effects of events or ideas
12. Extract implicit main idea or theme
Objective (s):
Students will use reading comprehension strategies to: understand literature, make predictions, and make inferences.
Students will gain a basic understanding of ocean currents.
Introduction:
Ask students to make predictions about the book Ten Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle.
Read the book while prompting the students to continue making predictions, and to make inferences within the story. Prompt students to make connections to other books.
After reading, prompt students to discuss how the author may have found inspiration for Ten Rubber Ducks.
Show students the interviews with Curtis Ebbesmyer, (the scientist who began studying the friendly floaters.)
Show students videos and charts that track the movements of the friendly floaters on the ocean currents.
Closure:
Compare the book to the real story that inspired the book Ten Rubber Ducks. Show students the Beach Combers website so that they may continue to investigate the study of the ocean currents using floating objects that accidentally fell into the sea.
K3
K4
Read and discuss:
Ten Rubber Ducks
You and Me Little Bear
Arty the Smarty
Class sing a long