Book Summary
The Titanic: Lost and Found is a book about the famous ship and its only voyage. It tells readers about the grandest ship of 1912 and its disastrous maiden voyage. The book provides readers with the statistics of survivors and victims, and tells of the Carpathia, the ship that came to the rescue. Lastly, the book includes information about scientists and their discovery of the remains of theTitanic in 1985, more than two miles below the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean. Photographs, maps, and diagrams support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand text
• Sequence events
• Identify and use hyphenated compound adjectives
• Identify the meaning of suffix ­-est

Materials

• Book -- The Titanic: Lost and Found (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Dictionaries
• KWLS, content vocabulary, sequence events, hyphenated compound adjectives worksheets
• Discussion cards

     Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: contraptions, dire, frantically, magnificent, ominously, steerage, treacherous, ultimately