UNIT X UNIT 5 | 177 DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold Have students work in pairs to summarize what they just read. Tell them to act out and use expressions and gestures to retell the end of the story. Pair students with the same home language so they can discuss the content and new vocabulary with home-language help. Amplify Tell students to write their response to question 2 in complete sentences. Direct them to cite text evidence to support their answers and to include summarizing phrases. Provide students with a sentence frame for citing evidence, if necessary. I know this because_____. Reading • Use illustrations to confirm word meanings Ask students to recall the phrase Night Sky and glowing white ball. Ask: What do you see in the illustration on this page? What is happening? Direct students to describe the illustration, pointing out parts that correspond to the phrases. Then read aloud, “Anansi looked up at Night Sky and asked what to do. Instead of answering, Night Sky swooped down to Earth, grabbed the glowing white ball, and hung it high in the sky.” Ask: How does looking at the illustration and reading the text help you remember and understand Night Sky and glowing white ball? (The illustration shows Anansi looking up at the sky with a question mark above his head. The text says that he asks Night Sky for help. Night Sky doesn’t answer, so that’s why there is not a picture of Night Sky talking to Anansi.) • Explain character development Have students work in pairs to discuss how the character Anansi develops throughout the story plot. They should include evidence from the beginning, middle, and end of the story. • Connect to self Ask students if they have done what Anansi did when he asked for help. Ask: Have you tried to solve a problem but couldn’t? What was the problem? Did you ask for help? Who did you ask? If students are reluctant to share, model by describing an experience of your own. • Home-School Connection Have students talk with their families about a problem that needs to be solved at home. For example, there may be disagreements about possessions. Then have a sharing day when students describe how they and their families solved the problem just like Anansi and Night Sky did. • Check In • Ask and answer questions Have students work in pairs to ask and answer the questions. Ask students to take notes on their answers and prepare to share responses in a class discussion. • Use evidence to support understanding Ask volunteers to share their answers to question 1 and have others point out text evidence that supports the answers. Then call on other students to share their summaries for question 2. ANSWERS 1. Each son thinks he should get the ball because each thinks he did the most important thing to save their father. 2. Anansi asks for help. Night Sky grabs the ball from him, hangs it in the sky, and names it the Moon. PRACTICE FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT Talk and write: The Story of Arachne and Anansi and His Six Sons Ask and answer in pairs: Why did Athene turn Arachne into a spider? How did Anansi solve his sons’ disagreement over the possession of the ball? Write two things that happened at the end of each story. Saddened that his sons would not share the reward, Anansi looked up at Night Sky and asked what to do. Instead of answering, Night Sky swooped down to Earth, grabbed the glowing white ball, and hung it high in the sky. Night Sky named the ball Moon. Ever since that day, the Moon has appeared in the sky at night for all of Earth’s marvelous creatures, large and small. ? GLOSSARY swoop to fly down through the air, suddenly and quickly CHECK IN 1. Comprehension Why does each son think he should get the ball? 2. Summarize What happens to the ball in the end? 177 UNIT 5 Anansi and His Six Sons UNIT 5 / READING
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