1. UNIT 2- MIGRATION STORIES
Lesson 9:
Comparison and Contrast Formatting Signals

2. INDEPENDENT READING
 Get an SSR book and read for 15 minutes.
 On page 11 of your workbooks write 1 inference
that you have about a character in your SSR book
in the “My Response” section.
 Be sure to include all parts (Date, Title, etc.)
 Record your reading on page 33 of your workbook

3. WORD STUDY
 Encourage
 (Encouraged, Encouraging)
 (verb) to give support, hope, or confidence to someone

4. WORD STUDY
 Appraise
 (Appraising, Appraisal)
 (verb) to assess the value or quality of something

5. READ-ALOUD/THINK-ALOUD
 Recap: What happened yesterday?
 Strategy: Determining Importance
 RA/TA: Pages 66-77 of A Family
Apart
 Look for target words
 Stopping Points:
 Page 71, paragraph 5
Repetition
 Page 76, paragraph 6
Mike

6. CLASSROOM CONVERSATION
 What did you learn from the
reading? Why is it important?
 What do you feel about the story so
far?
 What is the “big idea” of the novel?

7. WHOLE CLASS INSTRUCTION
COMPARISON AND CONTRAST FORMATTING SIGNALS

8. COMPARISON & CONTRAST
 Turn to page 192 in your workbooks and read the
article “Team Sports or Individual Sports”
 As we read, look for words that might signal
comparison or contrast
 Turn to page 105 in your workbooks and review
the “Comparison and Contrast Signal Words”

9. INDIVIDUAL/SMALL GROUP WORK
 Turn to page 193 of your workbook to the
“St. Joseph, Missouri and Lower
Manhattan” section
 After reading and annotating the
articles, complete the chart on page 196
 Complete “A History of the Orphan Trains
(Part II) if you have not already done so

10. CLOSURE
Whatcomparisons do you see
between “St. Joseph, Missouri
and Lower Manhattan” and A
Family Apart