Unit 3

Survivors!

Lesson 4

Polar Bears

This reading is about polar bears that live in Canada’s Arctic.


You will practise the reading strategy ask questions, pause and check, summarize in this lesson.



Reader's Notebook

Scan pages 126 to 127 of Literacy in Action 4A, reading the headings and looking at the illustrations.


What questions do you have about this selection?

Write your questions on the Reader’s Notebook: Polar Bears page. This worksheet is for your use only.




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  1. Download the document Reader’s Notebook: Polar Bears.
  2. IMPORTANT NOTE: When the download screen opens:
      • Click the "Open with" button.
      • Select "Adobe Reader".
      • Click "OK".
      • You will then be able to view the document Reader’s Notebook: Polar Bears.
      • Can't view the file? View Skill Builder: Saving Dynamic PDFs.

Read page 126


Time to pause and check.

  • Were your questions answered?
  • Did you learn something that wasn’t in your questions?

Read page 127


Time to pause and check.

  • Were your questions answered?
  • Did you learn something that wasn’t in your questions?

Summarize

Instruction


Use the same Summarizing Key Ideas worksheet as you did for Life in a Pond. This time, you will summarize the ideas in Polar Bears.

Remember to use key words from each "Details" box to summarize the main ideas in each paragraph or section.

Open

Open Your File

Go to your Documents folder and open your Summarizing Key Ideas worksheet that you have saved there.

Save

How to save a file:

  1. Have the file open and select Save As from the File menu.
  2. Name your Summarizing Key Ideas file in this format: jsmith_summarizingkeyideas and save the file to your Documents folder. You will be going back to this worksheet.
  3. Print your worksheet and save it for a later lesson.
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