When good readers read aloud, they stress, or say more strongly, any words that they want to emphasize. Stressing words helps listeners focus on important parts or pieces of information..
Comprehension Target Skill: Conclusions
Readers can use clues, or evidence, in the text to understand a topic. Readers can then use this text evidence, along with their own ideas, to draw conclusions about the topic. When readers draw conclusions, it means they make smart guessses about things the author hasn't directly stated.
Target Skill: Point of View
The author's point of view is his or her opinion about a subject. The things an author says and the way he or she says them can help readers determine the author's point of view. Readers are free to agree or disagree with an author's point of view.
Target Strategy: Visualize
Some authors provide details such as how something looks, feels, sounds, smells, or tastes. Readers can use this text evidence to visualize, or create mental pictures of, what the author describes. Visualizing the details can deepen your understanding of the topic.
Target Vocabulary
buried - covered up
location – place where something is
remains – what is left
clues – things that help solve a mystery or problem
skeletons – frameworks of bones inside or outside of bodies
evidence – facts that lead to a conclusion or help people find out what is true
fossils – very old traces or remains of plants or animals
prove – to show by using facts
fierce - very wild and dangerous
uncovering - opening to view
Spelling
Words with /j/ and /s/
1. age
2. circle
3. space
4. once
5. change
6. large
7. jawbone
8. dance
9. jacket
10. jeans
11. giant
12. bounce
13. pencil
14. huge
15. nice
16. place
17. excited
18. gigantic
