174 | UNIT 5 UNIT 5 / READING Reading • Follow oral content Play the audio for pages 174–175. Ask students to listen for general understanding without looking at the text. • Match oral to written words Replay the audio, this time asking students to read along silently, tracking the words as they listen. Remind students to pay special attention to highlighted words. • Build fluency Play the audio a final time. Ask students to do a whisper read along with the audio, trying to match the speaker’s intonation, phrasing, and pace. Pause as necessary and repeat until students are confident. • Use illustrations to learn or reinforce word meanings Ask students to match illustrations to actions in the text. Read aloud the sentences for swallowed, wove a silk road, gulping, laughter, and tumbling,) one at a time, eliciting the meaning of the action by having students point to the corresponding action in the illustration. Clarify that gulping is a kind of drinking and means swallowing in large mouthfuls, and tumbling means falling suddenly. • Skim to classify simple past verbs Direct pairs to find more action words on page 174 and sort them as regular or irregular verbs. List responses on the board. Check understanding of meanings. (asked/ask (R), told/ tell (I), saw/see (I), wove/weave (I), slid/slide (I), got/ get (I), imagined/imagine (R), continued/continue (R), was/is (I), instructed/instruct (R), whispered/whisper (R), made/make (I), came/come (I)) Tell students this will help them identify words as past actions and better understand the text. • Listen activity to build comprehension Replay the audio a final time, asking students to listen actively, paying special attention to actions and the question/ answer structure. • Recall story events to identify central ideas Ask students to use sequence words to recall story events so far. On the board, write first, next, then, second, third, and reinforce that these words help clearly explain the sequence of events in a story. Ask: What are the central ideas so far? (Anansi is lost and his sons go to find him. Each son helps save him.) • Identify text structure Ask: Did you notice repeated words in this text? (How will/can we _____? the brothers asked) Guide students to understand that repeated words and structures point out important ideas and help join the parts of a text. Have students predict what important idea this structure predicts. (each son helped to save their father and Anansi wants to reward them) DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold Work with students in a small group to help them retell the text. Provide sticky notes, and have students write one event on each sticky note and stick it to the page where it occurs. Then have students use their notes and gesturing or pantomiming to retell the story to a partner. Amplify Have students imagine that they are the six sons trying to help their father. Direct students to act out the scenes as they retell the story so far. They should appoint a narrator and take turns playing roles, incorporating dialogue and narrative from the text to replay the scenes. “How will we find our father?” they asked. See-Everything told them to be very quiet. He then closed his eyes—for that is how he saw best. After a while, See-Everything said, “Our father was swimming when the biggest fish in the river swallowed him. We must go find him.” “How will we get to the river fast?” the brothers asked. Road-Weaver had already sprung into action. He wove a silk road that led to the river. The brothers slid on the road quickly. When they got to the river, they saw that it was deeper than they imagined. “How will we find the fish?” the brothers asked. River-Drinker was already gulping river water. He continued until all that was left of it was a big fish swimming in a puddle. “How can we get the fish to give us our father?” the brothers asked. Friend-of-Fish instructed his brothers to stand back. This was a job for him alone. Friend-of-Fish whispered something to the big fish that made it laugh and laugh. Suddenly, in a huge burst of laughter, Anansi came tumbling out of the fish’s mouth. Reading 174 UNIT 5 Anansi and His Six Sons
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