UNIT X 208 | UNIT 6 Instructional Routine: Reading p. Txxv Text Genre: Biography • Recognize characteristics of genre Say: This text is a biography. What other biographies have we read? What do we know about biographies? (They tell us the story of a person’s life.) Read aloud the remaining descriptors and ensure students are familiar with the terms events and another person. • Discuss author’s purpose Ask students to think about why an author might write a biography. Guide students to understand that an author can use this genre to write stories that tell about people and how they helped build the countries we live in. Say: Because people build countries, it is important to understand how people lived and what they did. Biographies tell us the stories of people and what they did that is still important today. Preview • Learn new expressions Read the title aloud (Great Americans) and point out the picture of the flag. Ask: Do you think this flag represents “Great Americans”? (Yes, the flag represents all Americans. This is the a picture of the flag when these Americans lived.) • Use prior knowledge Ask students what they know about the people who helped build the United States. • Use illustrations to make a prediction Have students discuss the images in the text, paying special attention to the expressions on the people’s faces and their clothing. Ask: What do you think this text is about? ANSWERS 1. 1. Salem Poor, 2. Abigail Smith Adams, 3. Benjamin Franklin 2. Sample answers: K column: He fought in the American Revolutionary War. She was the wife of President John Adams. He flew a kite to experiment with electricity. W column: Why was a stamp created for him? What did she do to help the country? What else did he invent? 3. They are important because they helped shape America when it was a new country. Essential Question: How did different people help the United States become a country? • 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 how people they know help build the U.S. 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 reread it together 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 fluent readers partner them with emerging readers. Direct students to read the text aloud with their partner, modeling pronunciation and intonation for them to repeat and practice. Preview To preview a text, make a KWL chart. 1. Who are the biographies about? Write the names in your chart. 2. Copy and complete the K and W columns of your chart for each person. 3. Predict Why are these people important? TEXT GENRE Biography The text Great Americans includes three biographies. A biography tells about a person’s life. It is written by another person. When you read Great Americans, you will find: • why the person is important • events in the person’s life name K (know) W (want to know) L (learned) 1. 2. 3. How did different people help the United States become a country? ? ESSENTIAL QUESTION The first flag for the United States had one star for each of the Thirteen Colonies. Reading Reading UNIT 6 Great Americans 208 UNIT 6 / READING
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