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Ships of Discovery
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Grade 5
Fountas & Pinnell T
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
Ships of Discovery
Informational (nonfiction), 2,344 words, Level Y (Grade 5)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Summarize
Comprehension Compare and Contrast
Grammar and Mechanics Adjectives
Word Work Compound Words

Book Summary
Ships of Discovery is an informational book about the types of boats that explorers built and used when discovering new lands. Ships and conquests of Polynesian, Viking, European, and Chinese explorers are explained. The author also describes the people who set out to sea as well as their motivations for going. Illustrations and maps support the text.

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Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Summarize

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of summarizing to understand nonfiction text
  • Identify details to compare and contrast ships
  • Identify adjectives and the nouns they describe
  • Identify and create compound words

Vocabulary

  • Content words: archipelago, bountiful, buoyant, caravels, catamaran, clipper ships, commerce, eliminated, galleons, habitable, indigenous, ingenuity, knarrs, scurvy, speculated, streamlined, tiers, triremes
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