Build Knowledge & Vocabulary View the Watch & Learn Video Each of the texts in this set builds on ideas from the video “Bones, Bones, Bones!” Watch the video together to activate background knowledge to prepare children for reading the texts. Before Viewing: Use these guiding questions to engage children in thinking about the topic and sharing ideas. • What are some of the bones in your body? • Why do you think bones are important? • Do all animals have bones? After Viewing: Revisit the Before Viewing questions. Invite children to share what they learned. Build Content-Area Vocabulary The following terms from the video are used in each text in this set. Before reading, you may wish to guide children to understand their meanings and build familiarity with
their spellings. Use the following steps to explore these words. • Display the word. Say it aloud and have children repeat. • Provide a definition. Discuss the word and its meaning with children. • Provide tips for reading and recognizing the word. (See specifics below.) • Refer to images from the video that relate to the word.
Video Image or Reference
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Tips for Reading and Recognizing Terms
• You can use what you’ve learned to read this word. Notice that the e at the end makes the vowel sound long. Notice the -s ending. • Ask children to chorally blend the word with you. • This word is skeleton. Now you say it : skeleton. • Clap out the syllables together: skel•e•ton. • Point to the word and have children echo-read it. • You can use what you know to read this word. Notice that the e at the end makes the vowel sound long. • Ask children to chorally blend the word with you.
bones
the hard parts below a person’s or an animal’s skin
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skeleton the set of bones under a person’s or an animal’s skin that supports and protects the body spine the backbone, which is made up of many smaller bones
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Knowledge Connection In Text Set 5: It’s a Frog!, children learned about frogs—how they develop, where they live, and how they survive. Relate children’s knowledge to the “Bones, Bones, Bones!” video. Point out that frogs have skeletons and spines. They are vertebrates. Guide a discussion to connect the topics. • Ask children to share what they remember about how frogs move. How might bones help frogs move? (Bones help frogs leap, jump, and move fast to escape predators.) • Ask children to share ideas about how frogs’ bodies change from tadpoles to frogs. Let them know that tadpoles don’t have bones. Bones develop as tadpoles begin to change into froglets. Science
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