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Learning Objectives
Genre Features Reading Skills Writing Skills Science Skills
Fiction Skill Focus Writing Focus • Explain how dolphins communicate
• Realistic fiction • Recognize cause-and-effect • Write a report through echolocation
• Chapter titles relationships (expository) • Understand the ways the rain
• Table of contents • Use word origins forest supports the plants and
Supporting Skills
• Illustrations • Identify elements of animals that live there
• Prewrite
• Boldface vocabulary words foreshadowing • Identify ways that scientists help
• Collaborate with other
and definitions Supporting Skills protect endangered animals
writers
Nonfiction • Identify sequence of events • Identify the tools scientists use to
• Conduct research
• Nonfiction expository • Summarize study dolphins
• Map • Make connections • Understand that the rain forest is a
• Photographs • Draw conclusions fragile environment
• Paraphrase
• Identify main idea and details
• Make judgments
eche–(Greek) sound
locare–(Latin)
to place
-acioun–(Middle
English) action
fusus–(Latin) poured
or melted
hydor–(Greek) water
-phonos–(Greek)
sounding
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poken–(Middle
English) to poke
Think of something that happened in the story (effect). Then think about why it happened (cause).
Write the cause and effect in the chart below.
Vocabulary:
Story Map Use Context Clues
Fill in the chart below with information from the story.
Setting
Problem
Events
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Solution
Vocabulary:
Literary UseIdentify
Focus: ContextElements
Clues of Foreshadowing
When you read, sometimes the words give you hints and clues about what might
happen later in the story. The way the author uses words to make you predict something
is called foreshadowing. The sentences below are from Rain Forest Adventure. Read each
passage and then write what you think might happen later. Then write the words that
gave you a hint or a clue.
1. As Juan sat down, he noticed a coil of rope in the bottom of the canoe. He poked it cautiously
with his paddle.
“What’s the problem, Juan?” Vicki asked curiously, raising an eyebrow. “Is there something wrong
with the rope?”
“Just checking for snakes,” Juan answered nervously. “There are lots of snakes in rain forests,
right?”(p. 16)
2. But something on the ground caught his eye. There were two candy wrappers lying near a patch
of moss. Next to the wrappers was a boot print.
From this spot, Juan had a clear view of the river through the trees. A shiver ran up his spine.
“Someone was standing here, watching us out on the river,” he said softly to himself. (p. 32)
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