Building Knowledge: Class visits a library, museum, or local business, Students watch a video about hurricanes while completing a graphic organizer., Students read texts about global warming., Supporting Reading: Teacher conducts a think aloud as she reads a relevant text to the whole class., Teacher engages small groups of students in guided reading., Students participate in reciprocal teaching using relevant texts., Exploring a Genre: Teacher highlights the organizational structure of a text on the rainforest., Teacher and students work together to identify sequence words in a text about the water cycle., Students sort texts according to purpose., Supporting Writing: Teacher and students work together to co-construct a text about the life cycle of a butterfly., Teacher thinks aloud as she generates a text., Students add transition words to an outline of how steel is made., Students work together to create anchor charts of language features., Using a Genre: Students work in pairs to review and revise the water cycle texts they wrote., Students write their own texts that explain a model which illustrates erosion., Students ask for feedback on specific aspects of their independently-constructed texts.,

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