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Symphony of Whales

Symphony of Whales. By Steve Schuch Illustrated by Wendell Minor. THIS WEEK WE WILL LEARN Comprehension Skill Generalize Comprehension Strategy Answer Questions Vocabulary Strategy Context Clues . Guided Reading Groups. The setting of our story is in the Arctic .

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Symphony of Whales

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  1. Symphony of Whales By Steve Schuch Illustrated by Wendell Minor THIS WEEKWE WILL LEARNComprehension Skill GeneralizeComprehension Strategy Answer QuestionsVocabulary Strategy Context Clues

  2. Guided Reading Groups

  3. The setting of our story is in the Arctic. Here is a sunrise over a frozen lake in the Arctic.

  4. Here a ship makes a channel through the ice.

  5. The Beluga Whales are some of the main characters in our story.

  6. Beached Whales

  7. Can people communicate with whales? What do you think?

  8. Skills

  9. Generalize • Sometimes when you read ideas about    several things you can see how they are alike in some way. You can make a general statement about all of them together. • Clue words such asmost, many, all, orfew signal generalizations.

  10. Concept Vocabulary • field biologist an expert in the study of life and living things who spends a lot of time outside where animals or organisms live or grow • poachers people who hunt or fish illegally • salt marsh low-lying watery ground near the ocean or other bodies of salt water

  11. An Atlantic coastal salt marsh in Conneticut.

  12. A salt marsh in the Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center in Brooklyn, New York, after a snow melt.

  13. Arctic dog sled

  14. Vocabulary

  15. uneasily; nervously with fear of what might happen anxiously Tomas anxiously looked at the test—nervously.

  16. A part of a sea or lake partly surrounded by land bay The moon shone over the bay-small part of the ocean.

  17. To cut or break off a small thin piece of something chipped The ship chipped through the ice—broke off.

  18. A body of water joining two larger bodies of water channel We took a ship across the channel—body of water.

  19. The food, materials, and equipment necessary for an army exercise, camping trip and so on supplies Rachel helped load the supplies onto the ship--materials.

  20. Shut in on all sides; encircled; enclosed surround The Beluga Whale was surrounded by people--enclosed.

  21. nearby neighboring Glashka had to find help from a neighboring village—nearby.

  22. Blinding snowstorms with very strong, cold winds blizzards Russia has many blizzards—storms with a lot of snow.

  23. A pleasing or easily remembered series of musical notes; tune melody Braden was humming a snappy melody--tune.

  24. Shedding water; a material that does not let water penetrate it waterproof This man had a waterproof outfit—not allowing water to come through.

  25. Crying out; barking yelping The wolves were yelping outside—crying out.

  26. symphony • A long, complicated musical composition for an orchestra Dolan, our music teacher, took me to a symphony--orchestra.

  27. Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven • Opus number: 67 • Title: Symphonie Nr. 5 c-moll • Movement: 4. Allegro

  28. Use some of the vocabulary words with the poster.

  29. Polar ice packs are large areas of pack ice formed from seawater in the Earth's polar regions, known as polar ice caps: the Arctic ice pack (or Arctic ice cap) of the Arctic Ocean and the Antarctic ice pack of the Southern Ocean, fringing the Antarctic ice sheet. Polar packs significantly change their size during seasonal changes of the year.

  30. Salt Marsh Facts • A salt marsh is a type of marsh that is a transitional intertidal between land and salty or brackish water. It is dominated by salt tolerant plants. Salt marshes are one of the most biologically productive habitats on the planet. The daily tidal surges bring in nutrients, which tend to settle in roots of the plants within the salt marsh. The natural chemical activity of salt allows for great biodiversity.

  31. United Streaming video Animal Profiles: Killer and Beluga Whales (15:00)

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