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Letters Home from Yosemite
Today you will…
• Finish reading the text• Answer questions from the text• Answer vocabulary questions
Team Cooperation GoalComplete tasks
Title: Letters Home from Yosemite
Reading Goal: Main Idea and supporting details
Team Cooperation Goal: Completing TasksGenre: ExpositoryAuthor: Lisa Halvorsen
Review Vocabulary with Partner
Can you say it?Can you define it?Can you say it in a sentence?
Vocabulary Vault
Letters Home from Yosemite
Let’s finish filling in our SQRRRL Maps
Where is Yosemite
National Park
Letters from
Yosemit
•In the Sierra Nevada Mountains•Mountains cover 15.5 million acres•Yosemite Valley is 7 miles long and 1 mile wide
•3,200 feet above the valley floor•Lovely view of park features•Good place to watch the peregrine falcons
•Spanish for “the captain”•Biggest block of granite on Earth•Famous climbing spot•3,600 feet high•Ribbon Fall plunges 1,612 feet
Topography Wildlife
Glacier Point El Capitan
•Black bears often raid camps for food•Mule deer graze by roadside•Bobcats, coyote, jackrabbits, marmots, sheep, rattlesnakes
Let’s answer the question.
Where is Yosemite located?
• Yosemite is located in California about four hours south of San Francisco.
• When you arrive in Yosemite, you will be greeted by Arch Rock.
Test Day
• Today you will finish reading Letters Home from Yosemite. You will learn a few more amazing facts about this special place.
• You will work on this alone• You will use your strategies to answer the
questions• Add main ideas and supporting details to your
tree maps• You will have 35 minutes
Team Discussion-15minutes
• Discuss the strategies that you used• Discuss the answers to the test• Add anything else to your tree maps
Class Discussion
• Let’s review the answers to the test
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