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BUILD BACKGROUND Unit 1, Grade 4

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“Daedalus and Icarus”

California Standards

Reading –  Word Recognition 1.1

•  Read narrative and expository text aloud with grade-appropriate fluency and accuracy and with appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression.

–  Vocabulary and Concept Development 1.2 •  Apply knowledge of word origins, derivations, synonyms,

antonyms, and idioms to determine the meaning of words and phrases.




Reading –  Vocabulary and Concept Development 1.3

•  Use knowledge of root words to determine the meaning of unknown words within a passage.

–  Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text 2.2

•  Use appropriate strategies when reading for different purposes (e.g., full comprehension, location of information, personal enjoyment).




Reading –  Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-

Appropriate Text 2.3 •  Make and confirm predictions about text by using prior

knowledge and ideas presented in the text itself, including illustrations, titles, topic sentences, important words, and foreshadowing clues.



Word Knowledge

LINE 1: it’s can’t I’ve we’ll



Word Knowledge


LINE 2: invent invention inventive



Word Knowledge



LINE 3: readable comfortable recyclable laughable



Word Knowledge



LINE 3: readable comfortable recyclable laughable

LINE 4: maze freedom floating creature least



Vocabulary

SENTENCE 1: I’ve been making something.



Vocabulary


SENTENCE 2: Daedalus worked by candlelight on his greatest invention of all.



Vocabulary



SENTENCE 3: It was a comfortable prison.



Vocabulary



SENTENCE 3: It was a comfortable prison.

SENTENCE 4: A raccoon is a forest creature.



Activate Prior Knowledge

•  What is usually made of wax?

•  What makes wax melt?




•  How do birds fly?

•  How do feathers help them fly?




Do your parents ever warn you not to do certain things?



Background Information

•  “Daedalus and Icarus” is a myth.

•  Some myths help to explain how the world works.

•  Some myths discuss the adventures and mistakes of heroes and other interesting characters. Sculpture of Icarus




•  What are some myths that you have read?

•  What is it about the stories that make them myths?




•  Daedalus was famous as an architect and inventor.

•  Daedalus built King Minos a maze so complex that no one could escape it.




To keep Daedalus from revealing the solution to the maze, Minos imprisoned Daedalus and his son Icarus in a tower.



Browse

•  Read aloud the title and the names of the author and illustrator.

•  Quickly look over the first page or two of the selection.

•  What do you think this story might have to do with risks and consequences?



Browse

Look for Clues –  What unfamiliar words or

long sentences did you notice while browsing?

–  What clues did you find to help you understand the selection?



Browse

Focus Questions

– Read the Focus Questions before you read.

– Keep these questions in mind as you read.



Set Purposes

•  As you read, think about who takes risks in the story.

•  What are the consequences?



Vocabulary

•  comfortable

•  overlapping

•  plunged

•  hurtled



Vocabulary

comfortable –  It was a comfortable

prison, but it was a prison, even so.



Vocabulary

comfortable –  It was a comfortable

prison, but it was a prison, even so.

–  Keisha enjoyed resting in her comfortable chair after a long, tiring day.



Vocabulary

overlapping –  Daedalus studied the

clever overlapping of the birds’ feathers.



Vocabulary

overlapping –  Daedalus studied the

clever overlapping of the birds’ feathers.

–  With his scarf overlapping his collar, Pepito was warm and cozy.



Vocabulary

plunged –  His wings folded, and he

plunged down.



Vocabulary

plunged –  His wings folded, and he

plunged down.

–  The branch fell from the tree and plunged into the river below.



Vocabulary

hurtled –  He hurtled head first

into the flittering sea.



Vocabulary

hurtled –  He hurtled head first

into the flittering sea.

–  Its mighty engines roaring, the rocket hurtled into space.


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