UNIT X 298 | UNIT 8 Reading • Follow the instructional routine for reading. The following strategies are a sample routine. • Use new academic vocabulary Call attention to the word in bold type: inedible. Ask: Who knows what this word means? Explain that the prefix “in-” means “not.” Ask: What other word do you know that belongs to the same word family as inedible? Guide students to understand that edible and inedible belong to the same word family. • Match oral to written words Play the audio for pages 298–299 and ask students to read along silently, tracking the print as needed. • Build fluency Play the audio again, then practice echo reading. Model smooth reading, pause, then have students reread chorally, imitating your pronunciation, intonation, and pacing. • Use illustrations to confirm word meanings Ask students to recall the vocabulary term cultivate. Ask: What do you see in the illustration on this page? What are the women doing? Direct students to describe the illustration and act out cultivating crops. Then read aloud, “They understood the nutritional value of plants and cultivated them. They carefully and patiently selected the best fruits in order to plant their seeds.” Ask: How does looking at the illustration and reading the text help you understand the word cultivate? (The illustration shows women planting seeds. The text says that they selected the best fruits and planted the seeds.) DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold If students are not familiar with the process of cultivating crops, give an example. Explain that farmers plant seeds. They water the plants as they grow. They keep insects and animals from eating the plants. When the plants are fully grown, they pick the leaves, fruit, or seeds for food. They save the seeds from the best plants to plant the next growing season. Amplify Have students pretend they are farmers. Direct them to judge which plants growing in the windowsill greenhouse should be used for seed for the next growing season. Provide students with a model question, such as Which plant looks the healthiest? Have students work in small groups to select a plant. Then have students explain why they selected it. Sample answers: Our plant is the biggest. Our plant is the greenest. Our plant has the most leaves. Then have the students write a short paragraph explaining the reasons a plant should be saved for its seeds. The first inhabitants of Latin America created sources of nourishment for all humankind. They understood the nutritional value of plants and cultivated them. They carefully and patiently selected the best fruits in order to plant their seeds. Each time the fruits would grow bigger and more flavorful. This was how, thanks to their continuous work year after year, a plant with inedible grains became corn. Corn fed the people. This was also how potatoes became more and more nutritious. GLOSSARY cultivate grow and care for inedible not safe to eat 298 UNIT 8 On the Wings of the Condor Reading UNIT 58 / CREOANDNINECGT TO THE THEME
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