How Tia Lola Came to Visit Stay

By Julia Alvarez

Set the Stage!

Today you will start reading How Tia Lola Came to Stay, by Julia Alvarez. As you read you will draw conclusions from information in the text. Good readers know that authors don’t tell them everything, and that a lot of information can guessed from information in the text. Drawing conclusions helps good readers better understand stories

Reading/Team Cooperation Goal

Today’s reading objective will be drawing conclusions. Students will draw conclusion based on the information they have read.

Today’s team cooperation goal is everyone participates. Good readers make sure all teammembers are participating andhave a say in the work that isbeing done.

How Tia Lola Came to StayBy Julia Alvarez

Reading Goal: Drawing conclusions

Team Cooperation Goal: Everyone participates

Genre: Narrative

Days : 1-4

Rate and Review

discovers oddfaded gazestrimmed wobbly

Rate and review your 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.

Check out our vocabulary words!

fadedThe bright light of the sun faded away as the sun went down over

the horizon.

Became less bright

discoversWhile searching in Siberia,

scientist discovers a baby wooly mammoth that was buried in a glacier thousands of years ago.

finds

trimmedMy little brothers hair had gotten so long that he had to go to the

barber and have it trimmed.

clipped

wobblyAnthony was a wobbly rider when he first began to ride his bike but

he soon got the hang of it.

shaky

oddThe star nosed mole is an odd little animal that most people

never see.

strange

gazesThe little girl gazes up into the sky

waiting anxiously for Santa and his reindeer to fly by.

looks

Building Background- Drawing conclusions

How do detectives solves crimes? Do criminals stand up and say, “I’m guilty, I did it!” What does a detective have to do?

Terry went to her friend May’s house to play. As soon as Terry walked in the front door her eyes started to water. Within a few minutes she had started to sneeze. Terry saw that may had a litter box next to the back door in her house. “Oh, no,” she said, sneezing loudly. “I’m sorry, May, but I don’t think I can play here!”

Listening Comprehension: Charlotte’s Web

Read Pages 77-91Remember you are going to draw conclusion from the information in Charlotte’s Web based on the information in the story. You have to look for clues!

How Tia Lola Came to Visit Stay

• Prepare to read-707Text, illustrations and author information

Realistic Fiction: Text that is made up, but the characters and events are so lifelike that the story seems as if it must be true. As you read, think about what makes this story seem as if it could happen in real life.

Preview Team Talk questions

Partner Read- 15 minutes As you read through the pages identify 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.

Restate each page (or paragraph) as you read (summarizing)

Read and restate pages 692 with partners- You must restate what you have read!

Clarifying – use chart to clarify a word

Read 694 silently

Discuss and answer all Team Talk Questions

Answer 2 and 3 in your journals

New skill-Recipicol TeachingClarifyingQuestioningPredictingSummarizing

Class Discussion-10 minutes

What words did you clarify? Who wants to restate the

information? Lets answer the Team Talk

questions!

Vocabulary Practice-10 min

• Complete vocabulary practice on page

Adventures in Writing- 15 min

Page in Treasure Hunt

Imagine your house was a boat and that you lived on the sea. What would your life be like? What kinds of things would your

do for fun?

Fluency – 5 min

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