UNIT X UNIT 2 | 47 Use the Vocabulary A Answer questions For question 1, ask: What is a mystery? (A mystery is a type of fiction in which a detective, or person, solves a crime or series of crimes.) Which book title sounds like a mystery? Use the first sentence starter to answer question 1. For question 2, ask: What are columns? What do they do? Use the second sentence starter to answer question 2. Students work independently to answer the last question with the third sentence starter as a frame and guideline. ANSWERS 1. I think that the story The Secret of the Lost Mountain is a mystery because detectives uncover secrets and try to find what is lost. 2. People use columns to support structures and roofs. 3. The archeologist in the photo is digging and looking at ancient artifacts. B Work with others In groups, have students find the items. On a piece of paper, have them draw the items they have found and label them. Ask students to write a sentence for each item, using the vocabulary word. ANSWERS Sample answers: a sphere—globe, ball / The globe is a sphere as the world is round. something with a diameter— clock, coin, CD/DVD, paper plate, top of thumbtack / The coin has a diameter of 1 inch. a symbol—arrows pointing to exit, recycling symbol, fire / The green arrow points to the exit. something that weighs about a pound—paperweight, winter coat, book, bottle of water / My bottle weighs a pound. a structure—the school building, teachers’ desk / The classroom structure is built from bricks. something that is in the wrong position—chairs, books / The books are not on the shelf, but on the floor. They’re in the wrong position. Develop Vocabulary: Multiple-meaning Words A Read and answer Read the information and the directions. Ask students to look up move in the dictionary. Ask for three volunteers, one to read each meaning. Students use their inference skills to say which meaning matches how it is used in item 1. Follow the same strategy with the word call in item 2. ANSWERS 1. b; 2. b Have students work in pairs to create sentences with move and call, using the other meanings that appear in Activity A. Practice Book pp. 24–25 Assessment Program p. 22 FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold For Activity B, place the words with their definitions on the board for students to refer to. Make sure that there are examples of each key word listed in the classroom. You can provide a scale for students to measure what item weighs a pound. Amplify Have students use the new vocabulary and draw a comic about a world wonder. Talk and write: World wonders Define world wonders in your own words. List three materials that structures are made from. Use a dictionary to find the two meanings of weigh. Write two sentences to show each meaning. PRACTICE COMMUNICATE Use the Vocabulary A Answer the questions. 1. Which story title do you think is a mystery? Explain. A Summer Without My Phone Will the Snow Ever Stop Falling? The Secret of the Lost Mountain 2. How do people use columns? 3. What is the archeologist in the photo on page 46 doing? B Work with a group. Find these things in your classroom. Write sentences. Use the key words. a sphere something with a diameter a symbol something that weighs about a pound a structure something that is in the wrong position This paper plate has a diameter of 8 inches. Develop Vocabulary Multiple-meaning Words Some words have more than one meaning. Use the context to help you. The context is the other words in the sentence. A Read these sentences from Secrets of the Ancient World. Choose the correct meaning of the underlined words. 1. People moved the rocks more than 5,000 years ago. a. went to a different place to live b. caused something to go from one place to another c. sold something 2. People also call this structure the Stonehenge of Saudi Arabia. a. speak in a loud voice b. give a name to something c. make a phone call SENTENCE STARTERS • I think that the story is a mystery because . . . • People use columns to . . . • The archeologist in the photo is . . . UNIT 2 47 UNIT X2 / BEFORE YOU READ
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