Interactive Read Aloud Sample



Interactive Read Aloud

2nd Nine Weeks - 1st Row

5-1.1 Analyze literary texts to draw conclusions and make inferences.

5-2.2 Analyze informational texts to draw conclusions and make inferences.

SS

5-3.1 Explain how the Industrial Revolution was furthered by new inventions and technologies, including new methods of mass production and transportation and the invention of the light bulb, the telegraph, and the telephone.

5-3.2 Identify prominent inventors and scientists of the period and summarize their inventions or discoveries, including Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright Brothers, and Albert Einstein.

Book: Thomas Edison by: Michael Dooling

Book Introduction: The biography that we will read today will help us learn about the early life of America’s most famous inventors Thomas Edison.

Day 1 Questions:

|Interactive Read Aloud Questions |Correlation to Standard |Testing as a Genre Item |

|As I read the first four pages think about Edison’s |5-2.2 Analyze informational texts to draw conclusions| Edison experiences technical difficulties|

|strengths and challenges. Will any of these help him|and make inferences. |with several of his inventions, a likely reason for |

|in his career as an inventor? | |this is______? |

| | | |

|Read “Thomas Alva Edison…” to the end of “From then | |Sound devices were new and not fully developed. |

|on Al’s mother…” | |The electricity went off often and damaged the |

|(Ex. He has a curious mind.) | |machines. |

| | |Machines were often not purchased by the public. |

| | |Thomas got tires of the inventions and didn’t finish |

| | |them. |

| | | |

| | |Test Strategy: Select the answer that is most |

| | |accurate. The choice may involve choosing necessary |

| | |details. |

| | | |

| | |5-2.2 Analyze informational texts to draw conclusions|

| | |and make inferences. |

|Al was close to your age when he got his first job. |5-2.2 Analyze informational texts to draw conclusions| |

|Listen to the next four pages to determine if you |and make inferences. | |

|would have enjoyed this life. | | |

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|Read “At age twelve…” to the end of “Al usually | | |

|carried a book…” Turn and talk | | |

|We know Al wants to be a successful inventor. |5-2.2 Analyze informational texts to draw conclusions| |

| |and make inferences. | |

|Listen as I read the next four pages to see what you | | |

|would encourage him to keep doing and what you would | | |

|give him advice about changing to assist him in | | |

|becoming successful. | | |

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|Read page “After the Civil War…” to the end of “One | | |

|of Al’s duties…” | | |

|Turn and Talk | | |

|Read “For the next five years…” to the end of “In |5-2.1 Summarize the central idea and supporting | |

|1876 Thomas moved…” |evidence of a given informational text. | |

| | | |

|In this section we learned how, what we thought to be| | |

|a big challenge, being deaf, turned out to be very | | |

|helpful to Thomas. Turn and talk about what this | | |

|says to us as we meet challenges in our life. | | |

|Read the last two pages containing the diagrams and |5-2.6 Use graphic features (including illustrations,| |

|explanations of Edison’s inventions. |graphs, charts, maps, diagrams, and graphic | |

| |organizers) as sources of information. | |

|Do you think this was a good way for us to learn | | |

|about Edison’s inventions? What made this effective | | |

|or non-effective for you? | | |

|Turn and Talk | | |

|Can you think of a time in our own writing life to | | |

|use this technique? | | |

|Discuss | | |

|Teacher rereads first page and rereads the last |5-1.5 Interpret the effect of the author’s craft o | |

|sentence on the page a second time. |the meaning of texts. | |

| | | |

|Can we now tell why the writer used these examples in| | |

|the last sentence? | | |

|Turn and Talk | | |

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