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Pirate Ships and Flags Level U
Text Type: Nonfiction Word Count: 1804

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READING A-Z LEVEL U
Grade 4
Fountas
& Pinnell
Q
Reading
Recovery
24
DRA 40
Lesson Parts
1) Before Reading
2) During Reading
3) After Reading

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Book Summary
Pirate Ships and Flags is a factual text that details the range of ships used by various pirates during the Golden Age of Piracy. This book describes ships from numerous regions and their advantages in the practice of looting. It also describes some of the drawbacks of life on a pirate ship.

Vocabulary
barbarian
bow
bowspirit
corsairs
galleys
hull
junks
longboats
mast
notorious
prow
surrender
versatile

Reproducible Worksheets
Worksheet 1 - Describing Pirate Ships
Worksheet 2 - Reading a diagram  

Lesson Objectives

Comprehension
Students will demonstrate the ability to find facts and details in passages that describe and support the main point of the paragraph, in this case, the details of different pirate ships.

Word Work
Students will demonstrate the ability to identify a noun as a person, place, or thing.

Visual Literacy
Students will demonstrate the ability to gather information from a diagram that identifies parts of a ship.