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Expository

Title: Back from Africa Reading Goal: Questioning Team Cooperation Goal: Everyone Participates Genre : Expository Author: Various Articles. Expository. Expository. Narrative. Tell a story Characters setting Plot (events of the story). Explains information or ideas

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Expository

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  1. Title: Back from AfricaReading Goal: QuestioningTeam Cooperation Goal: Everyone ParticipatesGenre: ExpositoryAuthor: Various Articles

  2. Expository Expository Narrative Tell a story Characters setting Plot (events of the story) • Explains information or ideas • Main Ideas and supporting details

  3. Reading Goal - Questioning • Students will ask a variety of simple-to-answer and harder-to-answer questions about a text and answer them with correct, complete information or explanation.

  4. Essential Question What simple-to- answer and hard-to-answer questions can you make about the text?

  5. Vocabulary • Simple-to-answer question is an on the surface question. The answer can be found Right There on the text. • Hard-to-answer question is an under the surface question. It is a Think Question because the answer has to be inferred or you need to use your background knowledge.

  6. When? Where? What? How? Who? Why? Question Words

  7. Dr. Nick’s Challenge-Day 1 Dear Students, Help! I wrote a paragraph about one of Kenya’s wild animals but it needs editing. All the sentences end with periods, but I know I asked some questions. Can you help me? • Take turns reading the sentences with your partners. • Tell your partner whether the sentence he or she read is a question or not. • If it is a question ask your partner to write the question and fix it with a question mark. Thanks for your help. Your friends, Dr. Nick

  8. Dr. Nick’s Challenge-Day 2 Dear Students, Here’s a challenge to help to help you learn more about questioning and more about lions. • Read the paragraph about lions below. • With your partners, ask and answer questions. See how many different question words you can use. Use your question work list for ideas! Your friend, Dr. Nick

  9. Dr. Nick’s Challenge-Day 3 Dear Students, Shall we try Adam’s trick of turning statements into questions as we learn about hippos? • Take turns reading the following sentences about hippos with your partners. • After your partner reads a sentence, turn it into a question. • Write down the question words in your journal as you use them to see which kinds of words you and your partner use! Your friend, Dr. Nick

  10. Dr. Nick’s Challenge-Day 4 Dear Students, Can you answer questions as well as the Samburu Leopards team? • Read about Cape buffaloes silently. • Discuss the answers to the questions with your partners, and then write your answers in your journal. • Compare your answers with your teammates’ answers to see if they are complete and correct. Your friend, Dr. Nick

  11. Dr. Nick’s Challenge-Day 5 Dear Students, Some questions are harder than others. See if you can tell the difference. • Read about elephants below and answer the questions with your partners. Which question is harder to answer? Do you know why? Your friend, Dr. Nick

  12. Dr. Nick’s Challenge-Day 6 Dear Students, Let’s practice telling the difference between Right There (R) and Think (T) questions by reading some information about baboons, which are very common animals in Kenya. • Read the paragraph below, and answer the questions with your partners. • . Best wishes, Jackson

  13. Dr. Nick’s Challenge-Day 7 Dear Students, The Samburu Leopards need to give good answers to think questions if they want to win Animal Questions. Can you do that? • Read about crocodiles, discuss the answer to the Thing question with your partners, and then write the answer in your journal. • Share your answers with your teammates to see if the answers are correct and complete. Your friend, Dr. Nick

  14. Dr. Nick’s Challenge-Day 8 Dear Student’s, The Samburu Leopards are learning to ask questions about the important ideas as they read about the animals. Now that’s smart! Can you do that too? • Read the information about lizards below, and identify the important ideas with your partners. • How many questions can you think of to ask about these ideas? Make a list with your partner. • Compare your answer with those of your teammates to see if you identified the same ideas and how many different kinds of questions you asked. Your friend, Dr. Nick

  15. Dr. Nick’s Challenge-Day 9 Dear Students, The Samburu Leopards know so much about the animals

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