Module 2:
Adaptions and Wide World of Frogs
Guiding Questions throughout Module
Reading Research & Resources
"The research reading students complete for homework helps to build both their vocabulary and knowledge pertaining to frogs and specifically frog adaptations. By participating in this volume of reading over a span of time, students will develop a wide base of knowledge about the world and the words that help describe and make sense of it."
The focus this quarter is informational text about frogs and other animals. In addition, students can read pourquoi tales.
Here are some helpful links that your child may use for research reading at home:
NewELA Text Set
American Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian's National Zoo
Articles
Wood Frogs Survive
Tiny Frog Hears With Its Mouth
Frogs With No Lungs
Pourquoi Tales
Native American Pourquoi Stories
Homework
Research Reading Homework
Each month, students will choose research reading books and choose at least four prompts to respond to for homework. These prompts will be included in their homework packet.
These are the prompts we will be working on for Module 2:
• What are some comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs in the text you read? What do they do to the text?
• What is the main idea of the text? What are some of the key details and how do they support the main idea?
• What do the illustrations (photographs, maps) tell you? How do they help you to under-stand the words?
• What questions do you now have after reading? What would you like to learn more about? Why?
• What are the most important facts you learned from reading?
• What is the most interesting fact you learned today? Why?
• How does what you read today connect to something you have learned in lessons?
• What text features and or search tools did you use to locate information in your text?
• Choose two sentences or paragraphs and describe the connection between them, for example comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence.
- How does the author engage the reader in a narrative?
- How do experts build knowledge and share expertise about a topic?
- How do frogs survive?
Reading Research & Resources
"The research reading students complete for homework helps to build both their vocabulary and knowledge pertaining to frogs and specifically frog adaptations. By participating in this volume of reading over a span of time, students will develop a wide base of knowledge about the world and the words that help describe and make sense of it."
The focus this quarter is informational text about frogs and other animals. In addition, students can read pourquoi tales.
Here are some helpful links that your child may use for research reading at home:
NewELA Text Set
American Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian's National Zoo
Articles
Wood Frogs Survive
Tiny Frog Hears With Its Mouth
Frogs With No Lungs
Pourquoi Tales
Native American Pourquoi Stories
Homework
Research Reading Homework
Each month, students will choose research reading books and choose at least four prompts to respond to for homework. These prompts will be included in their homework packet.
These are the prompts we will be working on for Module 2:
• What are some comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs in the text you read? What do they do to the text?
• What is the main idea of the text? What are some of the key details and how do they support the main idea?
• What do the illustrations (photographs, maps) tell you? How do they help you to under-stand the words?
• What questions do you now have after reading? What would you like to learn more about? Why?
• What are the most important facts you learned from reading?
• What is the most interesting fact you learned today? Why?
• How does what you read today connect to something you have learned in lessons?
• What text features and or search tools did you use to locate information in your text?
• Choose two sentences or paragraphs and describe the connection between them, for example comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence.