Book Summary
The Reef, a fictional text, is the diary of Will Reynolds, a fictional crewmember on the ship The Endeavour, led by Captain James Cook. Captain and crew travel around the Pacific Ocean to New Zealand, charting coastal maps. They become stuck on a coral reef, which threatens to finish them. Suspense builds as the danger increases. Eventually, one of the crewmembers comes up with a way to temporarily fix the broken hull, and everyone is saved.

Vocabulary
Content Words
Endeavour
commissioned
esteemed
naturalist
poisonous
surveyed
superstitious
agitated
lieutenant
salvage

Reproducibles
Worksheets
Worksheet 1-Prior Knowledge chart
Worksheet 2-suffixes, homophones

Lesson Objectives

Comprehension
You will likely address a number of comprehension skills as students work to understand the text. The targeted comprehension strategy for this lesson is: Extend prior knowledge by connecting it with information gained from the text.

Word Work

Suffixes
Change words by adding suffixes

Homophones
Identify and list homophones

Visual Literacy
Read and interpret a map