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LESSON 24 TEACHER’S GUIDE Champions On Ice by Nancy N. Ragno Fountas-Pinnell Level S Narrative Nonfiction Selection Summary Jayne Torvill and Chris Dean started their ice-skating career as youngsters at a rink in Nottingham, England. In 1975, the two became partners in ice dancing. After winning four world championships, they competed in the Olympics, where their original interpretations won Number of Words: 1,880 them gold medals and a perfect score. Characteristics of the Text Genre • Narrative Nonﬁ ction Text Structure • Third-person person narrative organized in six short chapters. Text begins in 1984 at Sarajevo Olympics, the apex of the skaters’ amateur careers, then loops back to follow chronology of skaters’ lives and early careers Content • Olympic skating and ice dancing • Olympic gold medalists Torvill and Dean • Ice dancing choreography and music Themes and Ideas • The importance of teamwork • Risks and sacriﬁ ces are sometimes necessary to achieve success. • Dedication and determination, especially when one is young, can lead to success. Language and • Figurative language: Jayne loved the feeling of sailing over solid ground; shower of ice; Literary Features like an intruder; orchestral voices Sentence Complexity • A variety of sentence lengths, with some long and complex sentences • Exclamations, dashes, questions, italics Vocabulary • Words and phrases associated with ice skating/dancing: lobes, skid-stop, compulsories, paso doble Words • Many multisyllable words, some of them challenging, including place names and non- English terms: Sarajevo, Ravel, Bolero, innovation, concentration Illustrations • Photographs with captions Book and Print Features • Thirteen pages of text, easy-to-read chapter headings • Table of contents • Sidebars, chart, timeline © 2006. Fountas, I.C. & Pinnell, G.S. Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, Heinemann, Portsmouth, N.H.

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4_305790_AL_LRTG_L24_ChampionsOnIce.indd 1 12/17/09 10:04:23 AM Champions On Ice by Nancy N. Ragno Build Background Help students use their knowledge about ice skating and especially Olympic fi gure skating to visualize the selection. Build interest by asking questions such as the following: Have you ever seen pair skating or ice dancing? What do you think it would be like to perform in such competition? Read the title and author and talk about the cover photograph. Tell students that this selection is narrative nonfi ction and deals with the careers of skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean. Ask students what they would expect to read in narrative nonfi ction about these skaters.

Introduce the Text Guide students through the text, noting important ideas, and helping with unfamiliar language and vocabulary so they can read the text successfully. Here are some suggestions: Page 3: Explain that the book opens in 1984 during the Olympic Games in Sarajevo, at the pinnacle of Torvill and Dean’s amateur careers. Ask: Why do you think the author begins the selection at the pinnacle of the duo’s amateur careers? What made the skaters amateurs? Page 7: The sidebar says the Olympic ice dancing event has three parts: compulsory dances, an orginal dance, and a free-skating dance. Ask: What makes the compulsory dance different than the others? Page 10: Have students look at the photograph of Torvill and Dean skating a dance called a paso doble. Explain that the dance imitates a bullfi ght. Ask: In what ways do the dancers’ poses suggest the participants of a bullfi ght? Page 13: The text says the Olympics judge gave Torvill and Dean perfect scores for their interpretation of the music that accompanied their routine. Ask: What kinds of things do you think dancers do to interpret the music they dance to? Now go back to the beginning and read to fi nd out how Torvill and Dean became Olympic champion skating partners.

Expand Your Vocabulary

compulsory – obligatory; lobes – semicircles cut by a timing – the regulation of required, p. 7 skater into ice, p. 4 occurrence, pace, or interpretation – a result of coordination to achieve a explaining the meaning, p. 8 desired effect, p. 12

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4_305790_AL_LRTG_L24_ChampionsOnIce.indd 2 12/17/09 10:05:14 AM Read Have students read silently while you listen to individual students read aloud. Support their understanding of the text as needed.

Remind students to use the Analyze/Evaluate Strategy and to think about the ways that Torvill and Dean broke with tradition on the ice.

Discuss and Revisit the Text Personal Response Invite students to share their personal responses to the text. Suggested language: Have you ever taken a risk and tried a new way of doing things like Torvill and Dean? How were Torvill and Dean able to break new ground?

Ways of Thinking As you discuss the text, help students understand these points: Thinking Within the Text Thinking Beyond the Text Thinking About the Text • Jayne Torvill and Chris Dean • Making sacrifi ces is sometimes • The fi rst paragraph of every both learned to ice skate when necessary to achieve success. chapter gives a clue to the they were young in Nottingham, chronological sequence of • Having a strong bond and the England. events. same goals is important for • The pair became partners when performing your best as a team. • The narrative of the text tells Chris’s skating teacher brought about Jayne Torvill and Chris • Taking risks can help one to them together in 1975. Dean and has a beginning, meet his or her goals. middle, and end. • Torvill and Dean both made sacrifi ces to train for the • The special box, “The Career of Olympics. The pair took risks Torvill and Dean,” at the end of and broke with tradition. the book summarizes the career of the skaters and indicates important events.

Choices for Further Support • Fluency Invite students to use a choral reading to deliver a passage from the text. Remind them to use rising and falling tones as necessary to convey meaning and punctuation. • Comprehension Based on your observations of students’ reading and discussion, revisit parts of the text to clarify or extend comprehension. Remind students to go back to the text to support their ideas. • Phonics/Word Work Provide practice as needed with words and word parts, using examples from the text. Remind students that breaking multisyllable words such as compulsories (p. 13) and interpretation (p. 13) into syllables makes them easier to read, pronounce, and write.

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Critical Thinking Have students complete the Critical Thinking questions on BLM 24.9.

Responding Have students complete the activities at the back of the book, using their Reader’s Notebook. Use the instruction below as needed to reinforce or extend understanding of the comprehension skill.

Target Comprehension Skill Compare and Contrast Remind students that they can compare characters by looking for parts of the selection in which the characters act the same. They can contrast characters by looking for parts where the characters respond to a situation differently. Model how to add details to the Graphic Organizer, using a “Think Aloud” like the one below:

Think Aloud Jayne Torvill and Chris Dean both always maintained their love of skating, both before and after winning the gold medal. So that could go in the middle oval. After winning the gold medal, they retired and turned professional. These are ways to compare and contrast the lives of Jayne Torvill and Chris Dean before and after winning the gold medal.

Practice the Skill Have students share examples of other selections with characters that can be compared and contrasted.

Writing Prompt: Thinking Beyond the Text Have students write a response to the prompt on page 6. Remind them that when they think beyond the text, they use their personal knowledge to reach new understandings.

Assessment Prompts • What does it mean for a skater to cut lobes in the ice? • The ﬁ rst paragraph on page 7 is mainly about ______. • According to pages 10 and 11, what changes did Torvill and Dean make in their “bullﬁ ghting” routine as a result of their research into the paso doble dance?

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Reading Support Pair advanced and intermediate readers to read the selection softly, or have students listen to the audio or online recordings. Remind them that Torville and Dean took risks and tried new approaches to ice skating, and this eventually helped them win them the gold medal.

Idioms The text includes some idioms that might be unfamiliar. Explain the meaning of expressions such as pinnacle of their amateur careers (p. 3), hooked (p. 4), and grand ﬁ nale (p. 11).

Oral Language Development Check student comprehension, using a dialogue that best matches your students’ English proﬁ ciency. Speaker 1 is the teacher, Speaker 2 is the student. Beginning/Early Intermediate Intermediate Early Advanced/ Advanced Speaker 1: Who is this selection about? Speaker 1: Where did Torvill and Dean Speaker 1: What did Torvill and learn to skate? Dean do that was different than Speaker 2: Torvill and Dean other skaters? Speaker 2: Torvill and Dean learned to Speaker 1: What sport did the pair skate at a rink in England. Speaker 2: They took risks and participate in? tried new things. They changed Speaker 1: What did they do when they Speaker 2: ice dancing (or ice skating) the sport of ice dancing forever. became partners? Speaker 1: What was their Speaker 2: They worked hard to meet accomplishment? their goals and won the Olympic gold Speaker 2: an Olympic championship medal.

Lesson 24 BLACKLINE MASTER 24.9 Name Date

Champions on Ice Critical Thinking Critical Thinking

Read and answer the questions. Possible responses shown.

1. Think within the text How did Chris and Jayne solve the timing problem they had with their free dance music? They started on their knees and only moved their arms for the fi rst part of the dance. 2. Think within the text What dance tries to copy a Spanish bullﬁ ght? The Paso Doble tries to copy a bullfi ght.

3. Think beyond the text Compare and contrast Jayne’s ﬁ rst time ice skating to Christopher’s ﬁ rst time ice skating. Skating came naturally to Jayne the fi rst time she was on the ice. Chris fell and had to get back up a lot the fi rst time he tried to skate.

4. Think about the text What purposes do the subheads serve in this nonﬁ ction selection? The subheads tell the main idea of each section. They also spell out the sequence of events in Jayne and Christopher’s career.

Making Connections Jayne and Christopher took great risks—and the risks were worth it. Describe a time when you took a risk. What was the outcome? What did you learn from the experience?

Write your answer in your Reader’s Notebook.

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Thinking Beyond the Text Think about the questions below. Then write your answer in two or three paragraphs

Remember that when you think beyond the text, you use your personal knowledge to reach new understandings.

On page 10, the author says that “Originality could be risky, but they decided to take the risk.” Why is originality important in ice dancing? How could it be risky? How did Torvill and Dean take risks? Do you think the risks they took were worth it? Why or why not? Support your response with details from the text.

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Champions on Ice Critical Thinking Critical Thinking

Read and answer the questions.

1. Think within the text How did Chris and Jayne solve the timing problem they had with their free dance music?

2. Think within the text What dance tries to copy a Spanish bullﬁ ght?

3. Think beyond the text Compare and contrast Jayne’s ﬁ rst time ice skating to Christopher’s ﬁ rst time ice skating.

4. Think about the text What purposes do the subheads serve in this nonﬁ ction selection?

Making Connections Jayne and Christopher took great risks—and the risks were worth it. Describe a time when you took a risk. What was the outcome? What did you learn from the experience?

Write your answer in your Reader’s Notebook.

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