MountainsDay 1

Students need:Reading textbook,

Listen to learn information about the author’s experiences and to enjoy the narrative.

SET A PURPOSE FOR LISTENING:

Why does the author call theHimalayas “huge monsters”?

What discourages people from settling on mountains?

Isolation means “being alone”, or “being very far away from anything else”.

Textbook page 312:

Clue words: because, if, since, when,Then, therefore, so that, as a result of.

Look at sentence 2:

When the glaciers began to melt, they moved slowly across the land.

Cause Effect

The glaciers began to melt.

The glaciers moved slowly across the land.

R44 is on the next slide

Let’s reread the first paragraph.

Let’s reread the second paragraph.

Can you help fill in more information:

Vocabulary Words:

Read pages 314 and 315 silently.

Now listen as I read pages 314 and 315 aloud. Think about the vocabulary words that I read so you will be able to answer some questions about them.

Turn to Practice Book page 67.