LESSON 27 TEACHER’S GUIDE Sue Hendrickson by Karen J. Rothbardt Fountas-Pinnell Level M Biography Selection Summary Sue Hendrickson has been a diver and a fossil hunter. In South Dakota, she discovered bones of a Tyrannosaurus rex, which was named Sue in her honor. Sue, the most complete T. rex skeleton ever found, is on display at the Field Museum in Chicago, while the real Number of Words: 632 Sue continues to search for new treasures. Characteristics of the Text Genre • Biography Text Structure • Six sections of one to three pages, with section headings • Introductory paragraph (“Meet Sue”) and closing paragraph (“Conclusion”) • Organized chronologically, with one page of information about the dinosaur Content • Main achievements of diver and fossil hunter Sue Hendrickson • Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton • Museum display Themes and Ideas • Finding a T. rex skeleton is a remarkable achievement. • A lot of hard work goes into digging up and putting together a dinosaur skeleton. • Hunting for fossils is like hunting for treasure. Language and • Shift from third-person to second-person on page about visiting the museum Literary Features • Some shifting between present and past tenses Sentence Complexity • Variety in sentence complexity and length, some sentences longer than 15 words • Sequence cues in clauses (Two days before they were going to leave...) • Items in a series (They also found cannons, cooking pots, tools, bottles, and swords.) Vocabulary • Knowledge of fossil is central to understanding concepts. • Other terms: amber, picks and shovels, cliffs, skeleton Words • Varied multisyllable words, such as Chicago, collecting, million, excited, dolphin, scientist, carefully, souvenir Illustrations • Photographs support text. Book and Print Features • Text and photographs on each of 11 pages • Table of contents and glossary © 2006. Fountas, I.C. & Pinnell, G.S. Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, Heinemann, Portsmouth, N.H. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company All rights reserved. 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Printed in the U.S.A. 978-0-547-30463-2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0940 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 If you have received these materials as examination copies free of charge, Houghton Miffl in Harcourt Publishing Company retains title to the materials and they may not be resold. Resale of examination copies is strictly prohibited. Possession of this publication in print format does not entitle users to convert this publication, or any portion of it, into electronic format. 2_304632_OL_LRTG_L27_SueHendrksn.indd 1 1/6/10 12:26:28 AM Sue Hendrickson by Karen J. Rothbardt Build Background Have children tell what they know about Tyrannosaurus rex. Build interest by asking questions such as the following: How do people know what T. rex looked like? Where can you see dinosaur bones today? Read the title and author. Help children distinguish the author from the subject of the biography and remind them that a biography is a true story about a person’s life. Introduce the Text Guide children through the text, noting important ideas and helping with unfamiliar language and vocabulary so that they can read the text successfully. Here are some suggestions: Page 2: Tell children that this book tells about the life and work of a fossil hunter named Sue Hendrickson. Suggested language: Turn to page 2, the Table of Contents. The Table of Contents tells what you will learn about this fascinating woman. What do you think you will read about on page 4? Page 3: Help children use the Glossary on page 14 to fi nd the defi nition of fossil. Sue Hendrickson once discovered an amazing fossil. How do you think she found it? Page 5: Direct attention to the picture and the label. Explain that amber is the sticky sap of some trees that hardens and can trap insects inside it. Insects that get stuck in amber become fossils. What kinds of insects do you think these are? That insect could be millions of years old! Pages 8-9: Read the section heading. Explain that Sue discovered the backbones of a dinosaur, and she and other people began to take away the rocks around the bones. Why did they have to remove the rocks? Then what do you think they discovered? Now turn back to the beginning of the biography and read to fi nd out about Sue Hendrickson’s discoveries. Target Vocabulary amazed – very surprised, p. 3 explained – described something guard – v., to carefully watch or discovered – found something in a simple way so that others protect something, p. 10 not known before, p. 3 could understand it, p. 10 remove – to take something out exact – completely correct, p. 12 growled – made a deep, low of or away from a place, p. 9 noise, p. 8 souvenirs – things people buy to remind them of a place or an event, p. 10 Grade 2 2 Lesson 27: Sue Hendrickson © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 22_304632_OL_LRTG_L27_SueHendrksn.indd_304632_OL_LRTG_L27_SueHendrksn.indd 2 77/30/09/30/09 110:29:460:29:46 AAMM Read Have children read Sue Hendrickson silently while you listen to individual children read. Support their problem solving and fl uency as needed. Remind children to use the Question Strategy and to think of questions as they read. Discuss and Revisit the Text Personal Response Invite students to share their personal responses to the book. Suggested language: Would you like to do the work that Sue Hendrickson does? Why or why not? Ways of Thinking As you discuss the text, help children understand these points: Thinking Within the Text Thinking Beyond the Text Thinking About the Text • Sue Hendrickson works as a • Sue Hendrickson likes to do • The author’s purpose in writing diver and a fossil hunter. adventurous things. this book is to inform readers about this fascinating fossil • The most complete T. rex ever • It is very hard to fi nd a complete hunter. found is named Sue, because dinosaur skeleton. Sue Hendrickson was the fi rst to • The author did research to learn • Teams of people must work discover its bones. the facts of Sue Hendrickson’s together to dig up and put life. • Visitors to the Field Museum can together dinosaur skeletons. see Sue on display. • The author uses words like • Dinosaurs fascinate people. amazing and excited to show • Sue Hendrickson went on to dive feelings about fi nding buried for sunken treasures. dinosaurs and treasures. © 2006. Fountas, I.C. & Pinnell, G.S. Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, Heinemann, Portsmouth, N.H. Choices for Further Support • Fluency Invite children to choose a passage from the text to read aloud. Remind them to group words so that the reading fl ows naturally. • Comprehension Based on your observations of the children’s reading and discussion, revisit parts of the text to clarify or extend comprehension. Remind children 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. Point out that many words have more than one meaning, and readers must use the context to fi gure out which meaning fi ts. Discuss the meaning of mine on page 5 and picks on page 9. Grade 2 3 Lesson 27: Sue Hendrickson © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 2_304632_OL_LRTG_L27_SueHendrksn.indd 3 11/4/09 6:01:30 PM Writing about Reading Critical Thinking Have children complete the Critical Thinking questions on BLM 27.8. Responding Have children complete the activities at the back of the book. Use the instruction below as needed to reinforce or extend understanding of the comprehension skill. Target Comprehension Skill Fact and Opinion Explain that readers can think about whether a sentence tells a fact or an opinion. Model the skill, using a “Think Aloud” like the one below: Think Aloud Here are two sentences from this book: After a while, she saw something that looked like bones. She was very excited. It is a fact that she saw something that looked like bones. That is true and can be proved. It is the author’s opinion that Sue was very excited. A feeling is not something that can be proved. Practice the Skill Have children fi nd another fact and another opinion in the book. Writing Prompt: Thinking Beyond the Text Have children write a response to the prompt on page 6. Remind them that when they think beyond the text, they use what they know and their own experience to think about what happens in the book. Assessment Prompts • Tell one word that best describes Sue Hendrickson. • On page 7, fi nd the word that means almost the same as “steep rock.” Grade 2 4 Lesson 27: Sue Hendrickson © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 2_304632_OL_LRTG_L27_SueHendrksn.indd 4 11/4/09 6:01:37 PM English Language Development Reading Support Provide more support for children by clarifying tricky vocabulary, such as the words shown in the Glossary. Vocabulary Use the photographs to support children’s understanding of the words skeleton, dinosaur, fossil, and the phrase put on display.