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AFTER READING
OBJECTIVES
  • Formulate an inquiry question that is connected to this week's lesson focus.
  • Effectively and efficiently find, evaluate, and communicate information related to an inquiry question using electronic sources.
New Literacies
Synthesize
Analyze
Communicate
Navigate/Search
Identify Questions
Day 5
Day 4
Day 3
Day 2
Day 1
OBJECTIVES
  • Review concepts related to alphabetical order.
  • Arrange a list of words in alphabetical order.
EXTEND SKILLS
Alphabetizing to the Third Letter
Explain to students that entries in dictionaries are in alphabetical order. When students are alphabetizing they may find that the first two letters are the same in some words. When this occurs they will need to look at the third letter to order the words.
List these words on the board ant, announce, angry, ankle, animated, answer. Ask individuals to put these words in alphabetical order.
Practice Book
Practice Book 3.1 p. 20
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NEW LITERACIES
Internet Inquiry Activity
EXPLORE WAYS TO EARN MONEY
Use the following 5-day plan to help students conduct this week's Internet inquiry
activity on bartering. Remind students to follow classroom rules when using the
Internet.
DAY 1
DAY 2
DAY 4
DAY 3
Identify Questions Discuss the lesson focus question: How would we get what
we need without money? Brainstorm ideas for specific inquiry questions about
bartering and trading. For example, students might want to find examples of
bartering in today's society. Have students work individually, in pairs, or in small
groups to write an inquiry question they want to answer.
Navigate/Search Explain how to begin a simple Internet search using a student-
friendly search engine. Have students select keywords and phrases to use in their
search. Remind students to limit the number of keywords they use. Discuss how to
identify a few helpful Web sites from the list the search engine supplies. Remind
students that keywords will often appear as bold type in Web site descriptions.
Students can read the descriptions to determine if a site contains relevant information.
Analyze Have students explore and analyze information from the Web sites they identified on Day 2. Tell them to scan and analyze information for credibility, reliability, and usefulness. They can print out and highlight relevant information.
Synthesize Have students synthesize information from Day 3. Remind them that when they synthesize, they pull together the relevant ideas from different sources to develop an answer to their inquiry questions.
Communicate Have students share their inquiry results. Invite them to use a word processing program to create a poster about bartering.
DAY 5
RESEARCH/STUDY SKILLS
Alphabetical Order
TEACH
Ask students to name places where they have seen words in alphabetical order. Examples include dictionaries, glossaries, indexes, and telephone directories. Guide students to see that arranging words in alphabetical order makes them easier to find, especially when there are many words. Explain how to alphabetize a list of words.
  • Look at the first letter in each word. Think about the letters in the alphabet. Which letter comes first? The word that begins with that letter comes first alphabetically.
  • Continue to think about the letters in the alphabet. Look at the first letter in the words and place them in order according to the alphabet.
  • If there is more than one word that begins with the same letter, use the second letter to order the words. For example, cat comes before cost because a comes before o.
Alphabetical Order
Tell students to imagine that they are the manager of a bank that has ten workers. Write the workers' last names on the board: Melia, Cello, Estrella, Lucier, Rogers, Howard, Cabral, Garvey, Morris, Hamm. Ask students these questions.
  1. Which names begin with the same letter? (Melia and Morris, Cello and Cabral, Howard and Hamm)
  2. How do you write the names in alphabetical order? (Cabral, Cello, Estrella, Garvey, Hamm, Howard, Lucier, Melia, Morris, Rogers)
ASSESS
Ask students to put the following words in alphabetical order: quarter, dollar, penny,
dime, coin, bill, nickel.
For more practice or to assess students, use Practice Book 3.1, p. 20.