172 | UNIT 5 UNIT 5 / READING Reading • Follow the instructional routine for reading. The following strategies are a sample routine. • Follow oral content Play the audio for page 172. Ask students to listen to the ending for a general understanding without looking at the text. • Match oral to written words Replay the audio. This time ask students to read along silently. • Use visuals to support comprehension Replay the audio, pausing after “she shriveled to a small dark blob.” Gesture shriveling. Model how to use clues in the picture and the glossary to determine the meaning of shriveled. Say: I know she means Arachne because the goddess is touching Arachne on the shoulder. Arachne is getting smaller and smaller. This is one of the meanings in the glossary. I think that when people get smaller they shrivel. • Imitate intonation, phrasing, and pace Play the audio a final time. Ask students to follow along in a whisper read, trying to match the speakers’ intonation, phrasing, and pace exactly. Model, if necessary, by playing a short excerpt then pausing to imitate these elements. Provide encouragement and feedback on students’ oral reading fluency. • Use new vocabulary to enhance comprehension Direct students to find lightly on page 172. Discuss what new information students learn about this word by reading it in context. Then ask: How does knowing this word help you understand the story better? Check In Retell to summarize Direct pairs of students to retell the story before summarizing it. Have them share two important things they learned about the characters in the ending then summarize the central idea and relevant details of the entire story. If students need prompting, provide an example, such as I learned that Arachne lost her pride. She was afraid of the goddess. Guide students to discuss their summaries with each other and offer suggestions for corrections. PRACTICE DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold Have students work in pairs. Have one student read aloud the lines of text while the other student acts out the scene. Then partners switch roles. Guide readers to change their voices when Athene is speaking, and to use their regular reading voices for the narrative portions. Ask students to be expressive and demonstrate understanding of the content through their actions. Amplify Have pairs use relevant details from the story to write a character profile of Arachne. Tell them that in the original version of the story Arachne challenged Athena to the competition. Before writing their descriptions, have students discuss why Arachne enraged the goddess and whether Arachne changed at the end, using their imagination combined with evidence from the text and illustrations. Athene stared at the two lovely pieces of weaving in silence. Then she screamed with rage. Although she would never admit it, she could see that Arachne’s weaving was better than her own. She grabbed it and ripped it from top to bottom. “As you are so clever at weaving,” she screamed at the terrified Arachne, “you shall weave forever, and no one will ever want what you weave.” She tapped Arachne lightly on her shoulder. The girl dropped to the ground. As everyone watched in horror, she shriveled to a small dark blob, grew eight legs and ran away into a dark corner. Athene had turned Arachne into a spider. From that moment on, Arachne and all her many descendants have woven beautiful webs. You may see them in dusty corners or sparkling with dew in the early morning. GLOSSARY shrivel to become wrinkled and smaller descendants people who are related to a person from the past CHECK IN Summarize How does The Story of Arachne end? Reading 172 UNIT 5 The Story of Arachne
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