Sentence Chunking

See how this picture is also several smaller pictures?
Paragraphs and sentences are like this too.

Today's Goal: Learn the skill of "sentence chunking" to help us understand challenging texts.

The Plan:

1. Book Love!
2. Review Chapter 6 Purposes for Reading
3. Sentence Chunking Activity
4. Read Chapter 7
5. Work on Purposes for Reading

Sentence Chunking:

Sentence Chunking is strategy to use when reading in which you break down the text into smaller "chunks" to make it more manageable. Today we will learn one way of doing this.

We will be breaking the sentences down into process, participants, and circumstances.

Process: What is being done? (verbs are helpful here)

Participants: Who is involved? 

Circumstances: What's going on? What descriptions are there that give us more information?

HOMEWORK/IMPORTANT DATES

• Finish Reading Chapter 7 in To Kill a Mockingbird
• Complete the P4R questions on Google Classroom (due tomorrow)
• BOTH 6 AND 7 P4R should be done!
• You will have a chapter 6/7 quiz on Friday, April 15 (tomorrow!)
• You will have a Vocab Quiz on Friday, April 22
• You must complete a Book Love selection by April 22. That's about two weeks from now. I believe in you.