Build Vocabulary Concepts

Draw a line to the category you feel best matches the word meaning.  (Note: Two words will match up to the column on the right.)

Animal Migration

Fact & Opinion

• statement of fact - can be proven true or false / check it by doing research

Example:  Whales are the largest animals on Earth.

• statement of opinion - beliefs or judgements / can't be proven true or false  (valid opinions are supported by facts)

Example:  Whales are amazing sea animals.

Build Background Knowledge

Click on the file below to list facts about whales you already know before reading the story.  Continue to write down new facts as you read Adelina's Whales.

Journey North - Whale Migration Research

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/gwhale/AboutSpring.html

Lesson Vocabulary

Sort the 6 vocabulary words into adjectives (words that describe nouns) and nouns (person, place, thing, or idea)

• massive, lagoon, biologist, rumbling, tropical, bluff

Homonyms

• homonyms - words that are spelled the same and sound the same, but have different meanings

Examples:

staff - a stick / a group of employees           

bluff - to fool or mislead / a steep slope or cliff

Generalize

• generalize - a broad statement that applies to many examples

• valid generalization - supported by facts & logic

• clue words - many, sometimes, usually, generally, few, seldom, all, most

Examples:

All boys love to play sports.

Most girls enjoy playing with dolls.

 http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=4&act=2&que=1