Guided Reading Lesson
Preteach the Vocabulary
Story Words
ancestors, camouflaging, descendants, disapproving, disintegrated, drought, kiva, mesas, Native Americans, petroglyphs, ruins, sipapu, summon
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Teach the Objectives
Reading Strategy
Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions
Comprehension
Understand and identify story elements of characters, setting, plot, and theme
Grammar and Mechanics
Understand and identify coordinate and cumulative adjectives
Word Work
Identify and use homophones
Think, Collaborate, Discuss
Promote higher-order thinking for small groups
or whole class
Assessment Resources