voyages an ocean trip a journey to a distant place monda y
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You can makes voyages, or journeys, on land too.
Do you think climbing this mountain would be an easy journey? Why?
Do you think crossing this desert would be a fun voyage?
What kind of voyage would you like to go on? PB pg. 83
You are making inferences about these voyages.
What is inferencing?It is when you make your own ideas or conclusions from clues in the story or the pictures (illustrations)
Pedro’s JournalA Voyage with Christopher Columbus
August 3, 1492-February 14, 1493
I am going to read aloud part of a story, written in a diary form, about what one boy might have experienced during a voyage with Christopher Columbus.
Comprehension Skill: Making Inferences
Why are the men on the ship angry?
Why has Columbus bolted
his door shut?
It’s time for . . .
These are words. . .
We use them for . . .
Vocabulary
we want to know
Reading, writing, listening, & speaking!
•anchor: a heavy metal hook attached to a ship and dropped to hold the ship in place.
Across the Wide Dark Sea
• We will be reading a story about a boy who travels on the Mayflower.
• Watch: “Who’s that Stepping on Plymouth Rock?”
Reading Book pg. 154 & 155
Making Inferences
• Author’s don’t always explain everything in a story.
• Active readers use story clues and their knowledge to make reasonable guess, or inferences.
Read Across the Wide Dark Sea
Suffixes –less and -ness
How could a ship so small and helpless ever cross the vast ocean?What does helpless mean?
Yet the storms and sickness went on.What does sickness mean?
It’s time for . . .
These are words. . .
We use them for . . .
Vocabulary
we want to know
Reading, writing, listening, & speaking!
•anchor: a heavy metal hook attached to a ship and dropped to hold the ship in place.
Suffixes –less and -ness
Suffixes are word parts that are added to a base word.
You are going to get a card with –less on one side and –ness on the other side. I am going to flash up a word you hold up which suffix could be added to it to make a new word.
It’s time for . . .
These are words. . .
We use them for . . .
Vocabulary
we want to know
Reading, writing, listening, & speaking!
You are making inferences about these voyages.
What is inferencing?It is when you make your own ideas or conclusions from clues in the story or the pictures (illustrations)
Making Inferences
• Read pg. 173• Why does the Indian come alone?
• Why does the Indian bring his chief to meet with the Pilgram leaders?
• Why do the Pilgrams want to learn from the Indian?
It’s time for . . .
These are words. . .
We use them for . . .
Vocabulary
we want to know
Reading, writing, listening, & speaking!