UNIT x 136 | UNIT 4 Reading • Follow the instructional routine for reading. The following strategies are a sample routine. • Use new academic vocabulary Call attention to the words in bold type: grates and shreds. Ask: Who knows what these words mean? Clarify that grates is an action and shreds names a thing. Use photos of grated foods to explain the meaning of shreds. • Connect to self Have students describe their own experiences with grated or shredded foods. Ask: Have you grated a food? What was it? What did the shreds look like? What were you making? • Match oral to written words Play the audio for pages 136–137 and ask students to read along silently, tracking the print as needed. Have students listen for and point to the highlighted key word on page 137. Model the phrase pick her up for students to repeat. • Build fluency Play the audio again, then practice echo reading. Model smooth reading, pause, then have students reread chorally, imitating your pronunciation, intonation, and pacing. • Use illustrations to learn or explain word meanings Display photos of content vocabulary sweet potatoes, broccoli, pancakes, seasoning, saucepan, bowl, and burner. Ask students to recall the relevant sentences in the text and match the words to the pictures to aid comprehension. Ask: How does matching the words to the pictures help you understand these words? (Mario is making a recipe. When I look at the pictures, I understand the foods and tools he is using. Then I can better understand what he is doing.) • Demonstrate to retell an event Have students imagine they are chefs making vegetable pancakes. Have them use total physical response to illustrate the process of following the recipe, including grating, breaking eggs, adding seasoning, stirring, pouring oil, spooning the mix into the fry pan, adding topping, and plating the pancakes. Mimic the actions and have students follow. Ask: How many steps do you follow to make vegetable pancakes? (8) • Identify author’s opinion Ask: What do you think is the author’s opinion about farmers markets? Why? (She thinks markets are healthy places to shop. She talks about the healthy vegetables and their benefits.) DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold Provide visual support for students to understand the process of following a recipe. Bring grateable foods and utensils to class or illustrations of them. Read the text aloud as you act out the actions of making the recipe: I grate the sweet potatoes. I put the shreds in the bowl. Have students read and act out the text as well. Amplify • Ask students with good oral fluency and pronunciation to model making the sweet potato pancake recipe. Have them read aloud the text for each action and have classmates repeat. • Have students create and demonstrate their own recipe for pancakes. Direct them to identify ingredients and utensils before explaining and pantomiming the steps. UNIT 4 / READING Mario is talking while he grates purple sweet potatoes into a bowl. There are several other bowls on the table with different shredded vegetables. Next, he breaks two eggs into the bowl with the purple shreds. What is he making? Zoey wonders. “I’ll add a tablespoon of flour and then a dash of salt and some pepper. You can change the seasoning for different vegetable pancakes.” Pancakes! Zoey hasn’t seen pancakes made with vegetables before. Mario stirs the mixture. Then, he pours a little oil in a saucepan, heats it over the burner, and spoons in some of the vegetable mixture. “I’ll top these sweet potato pancakes with plain yogurt. Both eggs and yogurt are high in protein, so they are great for improving blood sugar levels.” Mario puts the cooked pancakes on a plate. Then, he quickly breaks two eggs into a bowl of green broccoli shreds and continues cooking and talking. “Broccoli can protect against diseases. Really, eating any of these vegetable pancakes may help prevent or even reverse type 2 diabetes.” Zoey sits up in her chair. Diabetes. That’s what my mother has! Marisol whispers, “He’ll hand out recipes when he’s done. And we can taste the pancakes then, too.” GLOSSARY grate shreds 136 UNIT 4 Fresh Finds at the Farmers Market Reading
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