How Do You Raise a Raisin
by Pam Munoz Ryan
illustrated by Craig Brown
Genre: Expository Text
Question of the Week:
How do people and nature interact?
Target Skills
Comprehension Skill is Draw Conclusions. Draw Conclusions gives the details and facts you read and what you already know will help you to draw conclusions about the text. Your child should be able to use what they know and what they read to form opinions or decisions about the writing.
Comprehension Strategy is I mportant Ideas. Good readers look for the important ideas in a text. Your child should be able to identify the important ideas in a text as the main information or idea that the author is expressing.
Vocabulary Strategy is Homophones
Phonics is Contractions
Writing conventions isAction and Linking Verbs
Vocabulary:
area- a space used for a special purpose
artificial- made by humans, not nature
grapevine- a woody vine on which grapes grow
preservative- a substance used to keep foods from spoiling
proof- anything that can be used to show that something is real or true
raise- to lift
raisin- a dried grape
by Pam Munoz Ryan
illustrated by Craig Brown
Genre: Expository Text
Question of the Week:
How do people and nature interact?
Target Skills
Comprehension Skill is Draw Conclusions. Draw Conclusions gives the details and facts you read and what you already know will help you to draw conclusions about the text. Your child should be able to use what they know and what they read to form opinions or decisions about the writing.
Comprehension Strategy is I mportant Ideas. Good readers look for the important ideas in a text. Your child should be able to identify the important ideas in a text as the main information or idea that the author is expressing.
Vocabulary Strategy is Homophones
Phonics is Contractions
Writing conventions isAction and Linking Verbs
Vocabulary:
area- a space used for a special purpose
artificial- made by humans, not nature
grapevine- a woody vine on which grapes grow
preservative- a substance used to keep foods from spoiling
proof- anything that can be used to show that something is real or true
raise- to lift
raisin- a dried grape