Leader’s Guide
Lesson 6
WRITING POWER 25 MIN
On the second day of the Read-Aloud lesson, campers use evidence collected in the previous lesson to complete their writing task—in this case, writing an explanation. Writing lessons may be scaffolded for a range of learners by providing sentence frames and/ or opportunities to draw and write.
Respond to Reading Have campers open their notebooks to the “Owen and Mzee’s Friendship” chart. Explain that they will use this evidence to write a sentence explaining how the friendship helped the animals. Divide the class into groups of two or three. Have campers open their books to page 25, beginning “Wildlife experts are still puzzled...”. Assign each group to either the second paragraph (about Owen) or the third paragraph (about
MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS Review the chart with campers. Encourage them to use language and details from the text to effectively explain how the friendship between Owen and Mzee helped each animal.
Mzee). Say: In the previous lesson you found evidence of Owen and Mzee becoming friends. Now you will use that evidence to answer this question: How did the friendship between Owen and Mzee help Owen (if you’re in the Owen group) or help Mzee (if you’re in the Mzee group)? Have campers follow along in their copies as you reread the page. Say: On this page we learn some of the possible reasons that Owen and Mzee became friends and how the friendship seemed to help each animal. This part of the story also helps us understand that there are things scientists know about animals and things they think might be true but do not know for certain. Reread paragraph 2 with the Owen group and paragraph 3 with the Mzee group. Have the groups discuss their assigned paragraphs. Then have them write their own explanations using the sentence frames in their notebooks. When they’ve finished writing, ask volunteers to share their answers. Write these sentence frames on the board: I think the friendship helped Owen because _______________________________________________. I think the friendship helped Mzee because _______________________________________________. CLOSING CAMPFIRE 15 MIN Reflection Question Turn knee to knee and discuss this question with your partner. Owen and Mzee’s friendship was unlikely because they were very different from one another—a tortoise and a hippo, a 130-year old and a baby. What might be some of the benefits to having friends who are different from us in some way? Praise and Affirmation Offer concrete praise and affirmation for campers’ efforts and accomplishments today. Shooting Stars Dance With the group, throw shooting stars (pretend to throw a basketball into a hoop). Campers can do a dance with the praise or put it in their pockets.
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