UNIT X UNIT 8 | 291 Reading: On the Wings of the Condor • Follow the instructional routine for reading. The following strategies are a sample routine. • Follow oral content Play the audio for page 291. Ask students to listen for a basic understanding of the narrative without looking at the written text. • Match oral to written words Replay the audio for page 291. This time ask students to read silently. Model how to use a finger or notecard to track the text. • Build oral fluency Replay the audio a final time, asking students to follow along in a whisper read and imitate intonation and phrasing. Repeat as necessary until students demonstrate confidence. Have students who have demonstrated proficiency read the page aloud together. • Call attention to the phrase vast and varied territory. Ask: Who can explain what vast and varied territory means? Observe students to see if they notice the glossary before pointing it out. • Understand genre Review the term facts with students. (true information) Remind students that informational texts contain facts. Help students identify facts about the first inhabitants of Latin America. • Connect to society Ask students to share how Latin America is similar to their community. Ask: Do we have forests or deserts in our community? Where are they? Check In Monitor comprehension Ask and answer the questions as a class. Have a volunteer explain territory. Then tell students that the answer to question 1 is stated in the text. Ask students to point out where they found the answer to question 1. ANSWERS 1. People lived on warm, sunny islands, in forests, deserts, and mountains. 2. The two pictures show mountains and desert. EXPLORE AND LEARN DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold • Some students may need more time and exposure to a text to comprehend it fully. Allow these students time in class to read the text prior to reading it with the class. • Provide students with a storyboard template to track innovations in the story. Ask students to draw the first innovation in the story. Then support them in writing a description. Use the storyboard while reading the entire text to support students’ literal comprehension. Amplify Have students connect what they read on the first page to their understanding of the informational text genre. Ask them to reread the informational text descriptors on page 290 and identify the facts, examples, and illustration in the first paragraph. PRACTICE The first inhabitants of Latin America found a vast and varied territory. Some of them lived on warm and sunny islands that were very rich in natural resources. Others went into the forest. Some lived in the desert. Others climbed to the mountaintops to live almost in the clouds. The cultures they all created were as varied as the places they inhabited. by Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy ON THE WINGS of the CONDOR CHECK IN 1. Comprehension In what four kinds of places did people live? 2. Use visuals Which places are in the two pictures? GLOSSARY vast and varied territory land that is very large in size and has many different things on it 291 UNIT 8 On the Wings of the Condor UNIT 8 / READING
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