Are You a Water Saver or a Water Hog?

Are You a Water Saver or a Water Hog?

Lesson 2.14 Page 102-103

Materials Needed:

Chromebook

Real Book

Binder

Independent Reading book

Pencil

3 Index Cards

Open Ended

What are ways you use water everyday and how much do you use?

One way I use water everyday is___________. I use about ______amount of water a day.

DO NOW

(resource) One natural ______ we should protect is_______.

What are we learning today?

• SWBAT identify an author's purpose and explain how the author's shares what he or she thinks through the text

• SWBAT report on a topic or text in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas

• SWBAT speak clearly at an understandable pace.

Build Vocabulary and Knowledge

• Reduce

• Indirect

Poll

Do you know the word REDUCE?

• I don't know

• I've heard or seen it

• I think I know it

• I know it and use it

Reduce

• re-duce (verb)

• to make something smaller in amount

What can you do to reduce your water use?

To reduce my water use, I can ________.

Open Ended

What is your advice to people who want to reduce the amount of money they spend?

To reduce the amount of money you spend, you could_______.

Poll

Do you know the word INDIRECT?

• I don't know

• I've heard or seen it

• I think I know it

• I know it and use it

Indirect

• in-di-rect (adjective)

• describing a cause that is not the most important one

How might a drought have an indirect impact on you?

A drought might have an indirect impact on me if ___________.

Open Ended

How might joining a sports team have an indirect effect on someone's life?

An indirect effect of joining a team might be_______.

Poll

Do you know the word CONSIDER?

• I don't know

• I've heard or seen it

• I think I know it

• I know it and use it

Consider

• con-si-der (verb)

• to think carefully about something in order to understand or make a decision

• Before I take on more babysitting jobs, I need to consider whether I have enough time.

Poll

Do you know the word PRODUCT?

• I don't know

• I've heard or seen it

• I think I know it

• I know it and use it

Product

• pro-duct (noun)

• something that is made to be sold or used

• I try to buy products that are recyclable.

Open Ended

It is important to know how much water I use because_________.

It's Reading Time

Let's read the text together to find out what kind of information is presented in each chart.

SMALL GROUP

Identifying Author's Purpose

Author's Purpose

• his or her reason for writing

• Explain that authors write for many different reasonings

P-I-E

• P-IS the author trying to get me to to take an action or convince me of something?

• I- Did the author write this to inform or teach me about something

• E-Did the author write this to entertain me?

Multiple Choice

I think the author's purpose is to_________ the reader.

• inform

• persuade

• entertain

Open Ended

I think the author's purpose is to persuade because__________.

Open Ended

How can identifying that an author is trying to persuade help you when you read?

Identifying when the author's purpose is to persuade can help me_____.

Poll

Were you surprised at how much water it takes just to do something like brushing teeth?

• yes

• no

Open Ended

Do you think having this information will change your water usage ?Why or Why not?

This information (will/will not) change my water usage because ________.