Getting Ready to Read

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Getting Ready to Read
Why is it important to care about nature? Think
about the biodiversity of the rainforests. Why
is biodiversity an important part of
ecosystems? One of the problems of the
rainforests is consumption of their resources.
In what other situations in todays world is
consumption of resources a problem?
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Getting Ready to Read
Amazing Words Desalination Today you will read
about some of the chemicals that can pollute
drinking water. However, people have found ways
to remove salt and some pollutants from ocean
water to make it drinkable. The prefix de can
indicate that something is being removed. What
might desalination mean? Why is desalination
useful? Which of the following types of water
would you be able to drink after
desalination Water from a murky pond, polluted
water from a river, water from the Atlantic Ocean?
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Getting Ready to Read
Persuasive Text Try to convince readers to think
or act in a certain way. What have you read that
tried to persuade you to think or act a certain
way? Have you noticed certain elements of
persuasive texts? Text features include
highlighted words Sidebars Other features that
grab the readers attention
Device What it is Example
Loaded words Words that appeal to readers emotions Act now, before more innocent animals suffer needlessly
Bandwagon An attempt to persaude people to think, do, or buy something because a large number of people do Everyone is using this toothbrush why dont you?
Testimonial An endorsement by a well-known person World Series players love this candy bar.
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Read and Comprehend
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Read and Comprehend
What loaded words does the author use in the
articles headings? Why does he include them? Why
do customers have to ask for ice in their drinks
at Water World? What information or ideas do the
subheadings convey?
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Read and Comprehend
Read the section of text under the heading Warm
Warnings. Identify the evidence the author uses
to explain and support his position that global
warming may contribute to shortages in drinking
water. Read Potent Pollution. Identify the
authors position and supporting
evidence. Consider what you already knew about
water pollution and its effects and what you
learned from reading Drip, Dry. What do you
think ordinary people can do to help solve the
water crisis? The section Water Hazard explained
about the pollutants that cars emit. Now car
companies are developing engines that use less
fossil fuel. What effect do you think these new
engines could have on the environment?
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Read and Comprehend
Fluency Practice Read page 121 out loud with your
partner. Use lots of expression as you read.
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Read and Comprehend
Vocabulary -ed, -s endings The boats followed
the Amazon River upstream. Kevin likes to watch
television programs about the rainforests. What
part of speech are these words? Followed Boats Lik
es Programs Forests
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Language Arts

• Compound and Complex Sentences
• A compound sentence has two or more independent
  clauses joined by a semicolon or a comma and a
  conjunction.
• A complex sentence has one independent clause and
  one or more dependent clauses.
• A compound-complex sentence has more than one
  independent clause and at least one dependent
  clause.

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Language Arts
Get ready to play Sparkle! Study tonight for your
spelling test. ?
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Language Arts
Revising Strategy Clarifying
When you revise, ask yourself Are the problem,
solution and supporting details clear to my
readers? Trade papers with your partner and give
your partner suggestions to help clarify the
writing. Go back over your paper and revise it.