Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Slippery Salamandar

By: Margaret Slattery

Reading ObjectiveToday’s objective is compare and constrast. Students will be able to list how events or characters are the same and how they are different.

Reading Goal: Problem and solutionTeam Cooperation Goal: Completing TasksGenre: Narrative

Day : 1

Rate and ReviewRate and review you vocabulary words by yourself. Ask yourself : Can you read the word? Can you define the word? Can you use the word in a sentence? Be honest with yourself.

Context clues- find the meaning of the boldface words using apposition.

• His pertinacity, or stubbornness, is the cause of most of his trouble.

• My opponent's argument is fallacious or absolutely wrong.

• The girl was churlish – rude, sullen and absolutely ill-mannered.

stubbornness

Absolutely wrong

rude

Objective: Problem and SolutionStudents will identify a problem the character faces and think about how they solve the problem.

Thing One tell Thing Two what the objective is.

Thing Two tell Thing One what the objective is.

Review Vocabulary with Partner- 5min

Can you pronounce itCan you give the definitionCan you use it in a sentence

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Check out our vocabulary words!

Ordinary:Compared to Indiana Jones who lives an

exciting life, my life is very ordinary.

normal

Talent: Alexis has many skills, and his greatest

talent is playing the piano.

ability

Exhibit: Our class went to Natural History Museum

and saw the dinosaur exhibit.

display

Stolen:My bike was stolen last week when I left it

outside over night.

Taken illegally

$100 reward for information

Volunteered:The volunteer workers packed up the food for the homeless until 1:00 in the morning even though they knew they wouldn’t get

paid.

Worked without pay

examining: The scientist was examining the germ

under the microscope to see if it was what was making everyone sick.

inspecting

Building Background

What is a recent problem you faced? How did you solve the problem?

Problem and SolutionAlfred could never remember the difference between right and left. In the morning he put the wrong shoe on the wrong foot. At school he would raise his left hand when the teacher asked him to raise his right one. His friend Ginny asked him for directions to the store and Alfred told her to go left at the corner next to the school when he should have told her to go right. Ginny got lost and ended up in the local cemetery. She was so scared that now she wouldn’t talk to Alfred.

Alfred decided this was a big problem. “ I’m going to learn the difference between right and left,: he told himself. He asked his mom which was his right hand and which was his left. Before he forgot, he used a dark magic marker to write a small R on the back of his right hand and a small L on his left. Then he put a small R on the bottom of his right shoe and a small L on the bottom of this left. Every couple of days for a month he would re-write the R’s and L’s on his hands and shoes when they started to fade.

Now he knew which shoe went on which foot right away in the morning. He would look down if someone asked him for directions and he could see which direction was right and which was left by looking at this hands. After a month he had memorized his right and left once and for all.

Listening Comprehension: Tales of a Fourth

By Judy BlumeWhat are some problems and solutions Peter

faces?

Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Slippery Salamander

Partner Read- 15 minutes Survey the pages

Pictures, subtitles, headings Make predictions

Look through the pages and find unfamiliar words. Put 2 sticky notes on words that are new or unfamiliar to you. As you read you will use your clarification strategies to define the word or idea.

Read and restate pages 494 with partners Read 495 silently

New skill-Recipicol TeachingClarifyingQuestioningPredictingSummarizing

Team Discussion-15minutes

• Discuss answers to team talk questions• Write answers to questions 1,3 and 4

Class Discussion• What words did your group clarify?

• What were some problems and solutions?

Writing Adventures- 15 minPage 40 in Treasure Hunt

Imagine you are Encyclopedia Brown and that you are going to solve the crime at the aquarium. What questions would you need to ask? How

would you start your investigation?

Vocabulary Practice-10 min• Complete vocabulary practice on

page 41

Fluency – 5 min

Read page 494 with partner. Give fluency score using fluency rubric.