Before Reading
Elicit Prior Knowledge and Build Background
Make a mind map around the word rainforest.
Ask students to suggest everything they know about rainforests.
Write all of their suggestions around the title and discuss them. You might talk about the destruction of the rainforests for logging, farming, and land development that students may not be familiar with.
Skim and Scan
Have students turn to the contents page. Tell them that a contents page shows where they might find information on a particular subject within the book.
Ask: In what chapter might you find information on Crazy Canopy?
Ask: What page does that chapter start on?
Have students find the word epiphyte on page 10.
Ask: Where might we find the meaning of this word?
Have students find the glossary by looking up the page number in the contents page.
Have them find the word and read the meaning from the glossary.
Have students read through the rest of the words and meanings in the glossary.
Ask: Are there any words here you are unsure of?
Discuss any words that students bring up.
Introducing the Book
Before handing out the book, introduce it by showing the front cover.
Ask: What does this tell you about the book?
Turn the book over to the back cover.
Ask: What other information does this give us about the book?
Add any new information to the mind map made during Eliciting Prior Knowledge.
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