What is the purpose for reading a poem?enjoyment

Sometimes poets play a game with their audience by not directly stating who or what the poem is about.

Enjoy the poem and see if you can infer its subject.

Work, work, work in the hot day’s sun,Work while everyone else has fun. Make my web, so pretty and neat—Oh, look what’s stuck, a fly to eat!

The bees and flies go buzzing by,Thinking that they can always fly.But, no, that one forgot to duck.Now in my web that bee is stuck.

I’ve spun my web across the door,High up here, above the floor.What’s that? It’s big! I’d better stay hid.Oh, no, here comes a great big kid.

Stop now, young man, not one more step.You’ll smash my work and make a wreck!Oh, too late, he’s walked right through.But at least he’s covered in silky goo!

What does the title of the poem tell us about its subject?

What clues does the poet give about the subject of the poem?

What is the subject of the poem?

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Two-Syllable Words

Three-Syllable Words

Four-Syllable Words

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Prey-An animal that is hunted for food is prey.

Prey

What creatures might be prey for a shark?

Shallow-Something shallow is not very deep.

Prey

Would you rather swim in shallow water or deep water? Why?

Strands-Long, thin pieces of something are strands.

strands

What do you do when strands of hair get in your eyes?

Social-A social animal is one that lives in a group with other animals of the same kind.

Social

Which are more social—dogs or cats? Explain.

Spiral-A spiral shape curls around and around in a circle.

Spiral

Why might a spinning spiral make someone dizzy?

Reels-A person reels something in by winding up a line attached to it.

Reels

If someone reels in a fish, in what direction would the fish be traveling?

DEVELOP DEEPER MEANINGSTurn to page 326 in your books. Read pages 326 and 327.(p.326)

1. What is the Florida scrub lizard’s prey?2. Where, besides shallow burrows, do wolf

spiders hide?3. How do mice use strands of Spanish moss?(p.327)4. What are two social animals in Florida’s

freshwater swamps?5. What kind of snake curls into s spiral shape

when it rests?6. Where might a person reel in a fish?

Turn to page 328 in your book. Read the genre information.

Expository nonfiction gives facts and details to help build an understanding of a real topic.

Textbooks, newspaper articles, and encyclopedias are examples of expository nonfiction.

Good readers often ask questions to help them understand what they are reading. They make sure that they understand information by asking questions about what, where, when, why, and how.

Ask yourself, “Do I understand what I just read?”

Authors do not always directly state everything readers want or need to know about a topic. To find out the information, readers add what they already know to the facts that the author gives them. This is called making inferences.

Following the punctuation marks in a selection can help readers make a reading sound like natural speech.

Turn to page 330. Listen as I read the first paragraph, using natural phrasing. Notice where the pauses occur.

Spiders can create elaborate designs in their webs.

Something that is elaborate is decorated with many details.

elaborate

Would an elaborate design have many tiny, colorful details or be very plain?

The water spider has an inventive way to live underwater.

A person who creates or solves something in a new way is inventive.

inventive

Which would be inventive: a new kind of vehicle or a new sheet of paper?

An adverb is a word that tells about a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Most adverbs tell how, when, or where.

She will eat lunch then.

The word then describes when she will eat lunch.

Then is the adverb.

here soon outside (These are adverbs that tell where or when.)

Ken is staying here.

*Why is the word here included in this sentence?

*How could using this type of word help your writing?

Reread page 335 of “Spiders and Their Webs.”

Pay attention to how the author explained what happened when a small insect visits the leaf of the happy-face spider.

What words do you see that signal sequence?

When writing an explanation, writers usually begin by organizing the information they will use. The best way to do this is to put things in the order in which they happen.

It is important to write clearly in an explanation. Familiar words can help the reader understand the new information

Remember that an explanation:Tells how something is done or how and

why it happensIncludes a main idea sentenceGives information and details about a topic