Finding Your Way 6-pack Author: John Bonallack ISBN: 9780478124149 Copyright Date: 2000 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 5 Reading Level: U Strategy/Skill: Author's purpose, Comparing and contrasting, Prior knowledge, Text structure, Using graphic sources Genre: Explanation, Procedure Theme/Topic: Adventure, Math, Physical Science Classification: Nonfiction

Book Summary

How do you find your way on the ocean?  In the desert?  In a strange city or in the forest?  Seasoned traveler John Bonallack explains how to navigate successfully in each of these situations.

Features of the Book

• The use of personal narrative and expository text
• The contents page, glossary, and index
• The background design that supports the theme
• Fact files
• Labeled diagrams
• Specialized vocabulary – GPS, sextant, polestar, hemisphere, navigation

Purpose

Finding Your Way can be used to introduce and reinforce the following skills:

• comparing narrative with informational writing
• using prior knowledge to make sense of a text
• exploring the use of procedural text
• understanding the author’s intention
• drawing and interpreting maps
• retrieving information and displaying it in a different format

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