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Divers' Dream
6-pack
ISBN: 9780478124965
Grade Level:
2
Reading Level:
M
Strategy/Skill:
Forming opinions, making judgements, Sequencing, Summarizing
Genre:
Explanation, Procedure
Theme/Topic:
Leisure and Recreation, Overcoming Obstacles, Physical Science
Classification:
Nonfiction
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Book Summary
Divers’ Dream tells the story of an old tugboat that is moved from a museum to the ocean, where it is sunk and used as a place for recreational divers to visit.
Features of the Book
- Nonfiction text features – reports, labeled diagrams, maps with a key, glossary, index, photographs
- Sequential text and photographic sequence of events
- Quotation marks to distinguish technical terms
- Newspaper features – headline, article, letters to the editor
- Problems and solutions
- Specialized vocabulary – towed, harbors, museum, scuba diver, marine biologist, engineers, funnel, trailer, welded
- Compound words – tugboat, businessman, newspaper, everyone, portholes, fireworks, slipway
Purpose
Divers’ Dream can be used to introduce and reinforce the following skills:
- exploring problem resolution
- following a sequence of events
- forming and supporting opinions
- paraphrasing and summarizing information
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