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The Haidas
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Grade 5
Fountas & Pinnell T
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
The Haidas
Historical (fiction), 2,264 words, Level Y (Grade 5)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Make, revise, and confirm predictions
Comprehension Make Inferences
Grammar and Mechanics Dash
Word Work Suffixes

Book Summary
This story follows young Squawally, a Native American from the Haida tribe, as he watches his uncle lead his people. Knowing that someday he will be chief, he is very proud of his people's customs and traditions. However, his thoughts keep returning to the prisoners his people captured during the war. Will their sickness infect his people, too? Illustrations, nonfiction features, a photograph, and a map support the text.

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

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions
  • Make inferences
  • Understand the use of a dash
  • Recognize and use -y and -ly suffixes for adjectives and adverbs

Vocabulary

  • Content words: anthropologists, ascent, canoes, communal, confiscated, designated, dismissive, extinction, humiliated, intoned, pigments, savoring, shaman, sneered, spawning, strait, stylized, supernatural, triumphantly
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