New Cycle! Race to the South Pole

We are reading:

Race to the South Pole

This is the story of explorer Robert Scott and his team, who set out to be first in reaching the South Pole. Did they succeed??

 

Vocabulary

conducting

stashes

rugged

blizzard

climate

glacier

shortage

regret

 

 We continue practicing our clarifying strategies.

When you don't understand something, Stop and use a clarifying strategy:

To pronounce an unfamiliar word:

• break the word into chunks
• blend it
• look for a base word
• reread

To figure out a word's meaning:

• reread or read ahead to find clues in the text
• look for familiar word parts
• picture what is going on in the text
• use background knowledge
• use a glossary or dictionary 

Use your rubric to explain what you did, and how figuring out the word, phrase or passage helped you understabnd the text.

Strategy Use Rubric
100	gives a 90-pt. response and explains how using the strategy helped in better understanding the text.
90	gives an 80-pt. response and describes a problem and a strategy that was used to solve the problem.
80	identifies a problem that a team member had understanding the text.