Unit 2 Lesson 10
Lesson Topic Inventions Essential Question What important traits must an inventor have? Anchor Text Young Thomas Edison Genre: Biography Written and Illustrated By: Michael Dooling Fluency Accuracy Good readers think about whether the words they read make sense. When a sentence doesn't sound right, they look back to see if they misread and correct their mistakes. Comprehension Target Skill: Main Ideas and Details The most important ideas in a text are the main ideas. Authors use main ideas to organize the information in a text. Authors use details to support the main ideas. In a biography, the details will add more information about a person's life. Resources Main Idea Game Main Idea Quiz Main Idea Practice Target Skill: Sequence of Events A sequence is the order in which events take place. In a biography, an author will often sequence a person's life from birth to death, telling events that happen to the person as he or she moves from childhood to adulthood. Sequence Word Activity Practice Sequencing Sequencing Puzzles Target Strategy: Summarize As you read, you should stop occasionally and use the main ideas and details to summarize, or retell, the important events. Resources Police Officer Video on Summarizing Summarize a Story
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Thomas Edison
Vocabulary Strategies
Shades of Meaning Even words with very similar meanings can mean different things depending on how they are used. These differences are called Shades of Meaning.
Example: Edison suspected he could improve the telegraph. Edison believed he could improve the telegraph. Shades of Meaning Target Vocabulary invention - an original device, system, or process experiment - a test to find out or prove something laboratory - a place where scientists work and do experiments genius - extraordinary intellectual power, especially seen in creative ability gadget - a small, useful machine or device electric - powered by electricity, a form of energy caused by the motion of electrons and protons signal - a sound, motion, or other sign that sends a message occasional - happening from time to time Spelling talk cross awful law cloth cost crawl chalk also raw salt wall lawn always soft small often strawberry Spelling City Spelling Tic Tac Toe |