UNIT X UNIT 1 | 11 DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold • Pair students who are developing reading fluency with those who are more fluent. More fluent readers should read a paragraph out loud first. Then developing readers should imitate their peers’ pronunciation, intonation, and pace. • Encourage students to add onto the visual storyboard. Students can write each bold word on a sticky note and attach it at the relevant point in the interview. They can also include words that helped them to understand the text. Amplify In groups, students can role play the illustration. Each student acts as a water droplet. They need to show the different steps by using actions, illustrations, and narration. Reading • Use a glossary Ask volunteers to identify the words in bold type (evaporates and precipitation). Then point out the glossary. Ask: What precipitation have you experienced? Describe it. Can we see water evaporate? Instruct students to use the words in a sentence to show understanding. • Identify the text structure sequence in illustrations Ask students to identify the steps in how clouds form. Note that there is no beginning or end; it’s a cycle that keeps going. Students can use the illustration to deepen their understanding of the glossary words. Check In • Ask and answer text-based questions Have pairs ask each other the questions and reread pages 10–11 to find the answers. • Compare and contrast Remind students that this strategy helps us to understand different weather types and topics in another way. It is best to use a Venn diagram and to look back at past notes and brainstorms on this topic. • Summarize Ask: What is a summary? What information do we include in a summary? (important information) Direct students that they must mention each key step in the process of cloud formation, but they should do it as briefly as possible. Say: A summary is short, but it includes all the important information. ANSWERS 1. Weather is the events that happen in our atmosphere, but climate is what weather is like in one area. 2. Water evaporates, rises as vapor, and cools. The water joins together and forms drops. PRACTICE GLOSSARY evaporate to change from a liquid into a gas precipitation water that falls to the ground (rain, snow) Q: What do clouds tell us about weather? A: Clouds show us what kind of weather we’re having. For example, dark clouds mean rain or even a storm. Bright, white clouds mean a nice, sunny day. Clouds form from the water cycle. Water from the ground evaporates and rises into the air. This water vapor cools as it rises and changes into water drops. The water drops join together to make clouds. When some clouds have too much water, the water falls to Earth as precipitation. This can be in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, hail, or snow. Some clouds do not produce precipitation. water evaporates water cools and forms drops water drops join to make clouds precipitation falls precipitation goes into the ground and bodies of water CHECK IN 1. Compare and contrast How are weather and climate different? 2. Summarize How do clouds form? How Clouds Form 11 UNIT 1 A Meteorologist Talks Weather UNIT 1 / READING
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