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Plate Tectonics
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Fountas & Pinnell T
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
Plate Tectonics
Informational (nonfiction), 1,933 words, Level Y (Grade 5)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Ask and answer questions
Comprehension Main Idea and Details
Grammar and Mechanics Prepositions
Word Work Synonyms and Antonyms

Book Summary
Plate Tectonics explains how and why the Earth has changed over millions of years. Written in understandable terms and filled with interesting facts about geological events, this book helps readers appreciate our remarkable planet.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Ask and answer questions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand text
  • Identify main ideas and supporting details
  • Identify and use prepositions and prepositional phrases
  • Locate synonyms and antonyms in a thesaurus

Vocabulary

  • Content words: continental drift, continental plates, core, crust, global mid-ocean ridge, magma, mantle, oceanic plates, pangaea, plates, ring of fire, tectonic plates, trenches
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