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Reading
Week 2 - Day 1
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- Read Tornadoes: Watch Out!
- Read Tornado Coming!
- While reading, make sure to use the footnotes (at the bottom of the text) to help you understand some of the lesser known words used by the author.
- Think to yourself, what genres are these two pieces of text? Are they the same or different? How are you able to identify the genre?
- Read 30 minutes independently from a book of your choice.
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Reading
Week 2 - Day 2
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- Reread Tornadoes: Watch Out!
- Reread Tornado Coming!
- How does reading these two pieces of text on the same subject (tornadoes) help you as a reader? How are they written differently? Which one do you prefer and why?
- Read 30 minutes independently from a book of your choice.
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Reading
Week 2 - Day 3
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- Reread Tornado Coming!
- Answer the following question in your journal: In the context of the story, how is Matt a hero? Make sure to include textual evidence from the story to support your answer. Use this response form to help you compose a complete, detailed answer. Try challenging yourself by finding two pieces of evidence to support your opinion.
- Read 30 minutes independently from a book of your choice.
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Reading
Week 2 - Day 4
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- Reread Tornadoes: Watch Out!
- Reread Tornado Coming!
- When reading two pieces of text on the same subject, sometimes they will have the same/similar main ideas/themes. But there are also times that they will have different main ideas/themes. What is the case with these two pieces of text? Do you see similar main ideas/themes? Or do these two authors have different messages? Write down in your journal what you think the main idea(s)/theme(s) are for Tornadoes: Watch Out! And Tornado Coming!
- Read 30 minutes independently from a book of your choice.
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Reading
Week 2 - Day 5
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- Reread Tornadoes: Watch Out!. While reading, stop at the end of each paragraph and decide which informational text structure was used (sequential, compare/contrast, problem/solution, description or cause/effect). Identifying the text structure used in informational text will help you as a reader determine the main idea and what big ideas the author wants you to walk away with.
- Read 30 minutes independently from a book of your choice.
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