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Gems: Treasures from the Earth
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Grade 5
Fountas & Pinnell T
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
Gems: Treasures from the Earth
Informational (nonfiction), 2,097 words, Level Y (Grade 5)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Cause and Effect
Grammar and Mechanics Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
Word Work Word Origins

Book Summary
Gems fascinate almost everyone. They sparkle, shimmer, and glimmer with mystery and beauty. This book explains how gems are formed, how they are valued, and the processes by which they become jewelry. At the end of the book, students can read about some of the most famous gems. Photographs and diagrams support the text.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making predictions to understand informational text
  • Understand cause-and-effect relationships in nonfiction text
  • Identify simple, compound, and complex sentences and their parts
  • Identify English words with non-English origins

Vocabulary

  • Content words: asterism, atoms, brilliant, chemicals, clarity, crystals, cultured, determined, dissolve, embedded, evaporates, facets, flawed, fluctuate, gemologists, grain, lapidaries, magma, nacre, opaque, organic gems, polyps, structured, valuable
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