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Rescuing 3.3.4 Stranded Whales GENERALIZE ANSWER QUESTIONS SUMMARY This book introduces the basic R EAD TH E BOO K concepts surrounding beached, or stranded, SET PURPOSE Most students will be interested whales. Steps of a rescue are described, in reading this book so that they can learn including how whales are returned to the sea. why whales beach and how to help a beached LESSON VOCABULARY whale. anxiously bay blizzard STRATEGY SUPPORT: ANSWER QUESTIONS Ask channel chip melody students to see what questions the author supplies surrounded symphony raises and how further reading helps you answer them. After reading, encourage INTRO D UCE TH E BOO K students to think about what they read and to INTRODUCE THE TITLE AND AUTHOR Discuss with go back to the text for answers. As they begin students the title and the author of Rescuing to formulate a generalization, these questions Stranded Whales. Ask students what they know and answers will help them assess the about whales or any animals in trouble. importance of what they read. BUILD BACKGROUND Most students have not COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS seen a beached whale, but many know about PAGE 4 Why is it important to immediately cool this situation from films or television. Tell a beached whale? (Its body temperature can students that they will read about keeping a become very high.) whale alive during its rescue. As they read, suggest that students watch for the first PAGE 7 Why don’t scientists know what causes actions of a rescue and determine why they a whale to strand? (Many possible causes are important to the whale’s safety. make it difficult to pin down one.) PREVIEW/USE TEXT FEATURES Tell students to PAGES 8–11 What happened when three look at the photographs, map, and journal pilot whales beached themselves in time line. Ask: What do you notice in the Massachusetts? (Scientists decided to take photographs about the people watching the the whales to the aquarium, where they healed rescue? Draw attention to the journal time line and adjusted to aquarium life until they were on pages 10–11, and ask students to predict ready to be returned to the sea.) why a whale rescue follows a schedule. PAGE 11 Why do scientists find a pod of Invite students to share any whales before lowering a whale into the experiences they may have had with animal water? (Calves need to be with other whales rescue or a close call they have had with a for survival.) sick or injured animal. 64 Rescuing Stranded Whales
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R EVISIT TH E BOO K Skill Work READER RESPONSE 1. Possible response: Like whales, dolphins TEACH/REVIEW VOCABULARY need to be directed into deep water. Ask students why this book about whale 2. Responses will vary. rescue features words such as anxiously, 3. Possible response: gathered around or melody, and symphony. The title shows that encircled a whale is in trouble, which is a reason to 4. three hours be anxious; whales are known to sing playful or mournful melodies. Ask students to look EXTEND UNDERSTANDING Ask: Did photographs at the other vocabulary words and predict draw you into this book more quickly than their use in a book about rescuing a whale. illustrations would have? How is a rescue Use a map to deal with the geographical or more meaningful if you can see real people in weather-related words. action? (Possible response: The reader can often identify more with what’s going on in the TARGET SKILL AND STRATEGY text.) GENERALIZE After reading about a typical whale rescue scene, students should have RESPONSE OPTIONS a general idea of what is involved in helping WRITING Tell students to pretend they are a stranded whale. Remind students that a scientists who specialize in whales. Ask generalization is a broad statement or rule them to write about how they would handle a that applies to many examples. A good rescue. Encourage them visit the library and place to practice generalizing may be to read browse the Internet. Their research should over the time line and make statements help them include facts about why the whale about the ways people help keep whales stranded and what the effects of the rescue alive and safe while they return them to might be on the whale. the sea. (Scientists use ships to carry the SOCIAL STUDIES whales back to pods in deep waters and CONNECTION then finally lower them into the water from special cages.) Suggest that students have a “Humans Care ANSWER QUESTIONS To help themselves for Animals” day. Volunteers can generalize, students should ask themselves bring in photos or drawings of the many ways questions about the rescue as they read. humans can help animals. Make captions for Help them organize their answers into logical each photo or drawing, and display them in generalizations. the classroom. ADDITIONAL SKILL INSTRUCTION SEQUENCE Remind students that understanding sequence, the order of events, can help them keep track of what is going on in the text. In this case, a sequence is graphically displayed in the journal time line on pages 10–11. Students may also read about the events from page 8 on and put them in order, leading up to the day’s events when the whales were returned to sea. Rescuing Stranded Whales 65
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Name Rescuing Stranded Whales Generalize • When authors present one statement about many ideas or people, they generalize. • A generalization is a kind of conclusion. Directions Choose one of the generalizations from Rescuing Stranded Whales listed below. Write the generalization in the top rectangle of the graphic organizer. Then find at least three facts in the story that support the generalization. Write those facts in the boxes below the generalization. Possible Generalizations A stranded whale is in great danger unless it is rescued. There are many things to do to help a stranded whale. There are many steps in bringing a stranded whale to an aquarium. Generalization Supporting Details Detail #1 Detail #2 Detail #3 © Pearson Education 3 66
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Name Rescuing Stranded Whales Vocabulary Directions Read the groups of words in each box. Write the vocabulary word that fits with each group. Check the Words You Know anxiously bay blizzard channel chip melody supplies surrounded symphony 1. broken bits pieces 6. nervously fearfully with panic 2. partly enclosed body of water 7. snowstorm storm cove inlet heavy snowfall 3. tune song music 8. collection necessary things reserve 4. deep water basin body of water 9. musical composition concert classical music 5. encircled enclosed enveloped © Pearson Education 3 67
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