UNIT x 128 | UNIT 4 Instructional Routine: Reading p. Txxv Text Genre: Realistic Fiction • Recognize characteristics of genre Say: This text is realistic fiction. What other fiction have we read? What do we know about fiction? (It is imaginary, not real.) Ask: What does realistic mean? (like real life) Point out that realistic fiction seems real. It has characters and events that seem like real people and real events. Read aloud the remaining descriptors and ensure students are familiar with the terms realistic, characters, dialogue, and foods. • Connect ideas Ask students to think about how a farmers market might connect to health and sickness. Guide students to understand that an author can use this genre to entertain readers but also teach facts and ideas. Say: Stories open our imagination. They help us connect important ideas. Preview • Learn new expressions Read the title aloud. Discuss the meanings of fresh and finds and the expression fresh finds. Explain that finds means discoveries of items you like, especially when shopping, and fresh describes natural foods and other things that are new. • Use illustrations to make a prediction Have students discuss the illustration. Ask: What do you think the characters learn? ANSWERS 1. I think they find fresh foods they didn’t know about at a farmers market. 2. They go to the farmers market, taste new foods, and watch a cooking demonstration. 3. I predict they learn that fresh foods can make you healthier. Essential Question: What can we learn about wellness from a story? • Exchange ideas Ask students to predict the answer to the Essential Question. Say: As you read the story, you will confirm or change your answer. • Activate prior knowledge Have students share their ideas about wellness and why it is important. EXPLORE AND LEARN DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold Gather a small group of students who need additional reading support to work through the text in a guided-reading format. Read through the entire text, then together reread it in chunks, pausing to read closely and analyze sections that develop character and plot. Provide comprehensible input by using gestures and pantomiming to support comprehension. Amplify Have students who demonstrate proficiency in building fluency partner with emerging readers. Direct students to read aloud the text with a peer, modeling pronunciation for partners to repeat and practice. UNIT 4 / READING TEXT GENRE Realistic Fiction The story Fresh Finds at the Farmers Market is realistic fiction. A realistic fiction story isn’t true, but it has characters, events, and places that are like real life. Realistic stories can also give you information. When you read Fresh Finds at the Farmers Market, you will find: • realistic events in the order they happen • realistic characters • realistic dialogue between characters • facts about different foods Preview Look at the title and pictures. 1. What do you think the characters find? Where do they find these things? 2. What do the characters do in the story? 3. Predict What do you think the characters learn? Reading What can we learn about wellness from a story? ? ESSENTIAL QUESTION 128 UNIT 4 Fresh Finds at the Farmers Market Reading
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