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Comprehension:
Understand main ideas
of an informational text
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Discuss the Super Smart title page. Display
the Super Smart, and forward to the title
page. Read the title and the author’s name.
Point out the planets shown. Ask children
what planets look like (round balls) and what
they think the big, yellow ball is. (the Sun)
Explain that our solar system is made up of
the Sun and eight planets, including Earth.
Ask children if they know the names of
any of the planets or how scientists find out
about them.
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Read and discuss the Super Smart. Read
each page. Pause every few pages to ask
questions. (You can see these questions
by touching the question button when it
turns orange.)
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Super Smart vocabulary: planets, solar
system, space, imagine, wonder, discovery,
curiosity
2. Compare pictures
How is this picture of Earth different
from the pictures of Earth on page 1? This
picture shows what Earth looks like from
space. The others show what different places
on Earth look like up close.
Explain: Space is where the Sun, the Moon,
the stars, and other planets are. You’d have
to travel above the clouds to get there. Earth
looks different when you’re in space than it
does when you’re standing on the ground.
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3. Retell details
What do we find out about the Sun on
this page? It’s a hot, glowing star. Earth
travels around it. Did you know the Sun
was a star?
4. Compare ideas
What is alike about how all the planets in
our solar system move? They all go around
the Sun. Each planet has its own path, or
orbit, but all of them are always moving
around the Sun.
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6. Understand vocabulary
What does this girl imagine, or picture
in her mind? what a creature from another
planet might look like
7b. Explain: “This word is Mercury. [Point
to the word.] It’s bigger and darker than the
other words. It’s an important word. It’s the
name of a planet.”
6. Connect ideas: Cause and effect
Scientists wonder if there are things living
on other planets. What did they do to
find out? sent spaceships to get information
Scientists on Earth use computers to
make the spaceships fly. Computers on
the ships take pictures of planets, gather
information, and send it to Earth.
7b. Connect ideas: Cause and effect
What happens when big rocks hit the
planet? It makes big dents, or craters, in
the ground. This picture in the box shows
what the ground on Mercury looks like.
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8. Understand picture-text relationships
What does the picture in the small box
show? a volcano What do the words tell us
about the planet? That it is called Venus. It’s
the hottest planet and has lots of volcanoes.
10. Recognize text structure
Think aloud: “I noticed that we keep seeing
the page with the eight planets in a row.
Each time we see that page, there is a green
circle around a planet. On the planet’s page,
we see a box with a picture that shows part
of the planet up close. This page tells about
Mars, and the picture in the box shows
the ice caps on Mars. I bet that as I keep
reading, we’ll see other pages like this one
that tell about each of the other planets.”
11b. Draw conclusions and cite text
evidence
Do you think people could live on Jupiter?
no What did you learn about Jupiter that
makes you think that? It is a ball of gas that
is poison for people to breathe. On one spot,
it has a huge windstorm that’s been blowing
for 300 years. So far, none of the planets
we’ve read about are places where living
things can breathe and grow.
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9a. Compare and contrast
How is this page like the page I just read?
It tells the name of a planet and something
about it. How are the pages different? This
page tells about Earth. The other page tells
about Venus.
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12b. Understand text features
How do the rings of Saturn look different
on this page than they did on the page
I just read? On the other page, the rings
looked like pretty round circles going around
the planet. Up close, you see they are made
up of bits of rock and ice. Sometimes what
we see from far away looks different from
the way it looks up close.
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13. Draw conclusions
Why can’t people live on Uranus? It’s too
cold. Uranus is also made of gas that would
be poison for us to breathe.
14. Explain: “Neptune is more than two
billion miles away from Earth! That’s why
it took a super fast spaceship 12 years to get
there. That’s also why spaceships that travel
far out into space don’t have people in them.
Imagine going on a trip that takes you 12 years
to get there and 12 years to get back!”
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15. Understand an author’s reasons
On this page, the author explains why
people can’t live on any of the other
planets. What reasons does she tell us?
The other planets don’t have the air and
water we need. They are much too hot or
cold for us.
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17a. Explain: “Scientists on Earth can make
Curiosity move around and do different
tasks. Curiosity can take pictures and use
tools to find out what Mars is like. It can
send pictures and other information back to
the scientists on Earth, a bit like how we use
e-mail to send pictures and information to
others far away.”
18b. Understand vocabulary and
connect ideas
When you discover something, you find
out something new about it. What did
Curiosity discover about life on Mars?
There isn’t anything living on Mars now,
but there might have been something living
there long ago.
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give opinions
Something is amazing if it’s surprising and
makes you say, “Wow!” What does the
author think would be an amazing trip?
being able to travel in a spaceship to see
planets in our solar system or planets no one
has ever seen Do you think that trip would
be amazing? Why or why not? Answers
may vary. Be sure children give reasons to
explain their thinking.
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After-Reading Discussion
Retell details
What was something interesting you
learned from this Super Smart about
planets, the Sun, or the Moon? Answers
will vary, but they should reflect information
from the text.
Understand vocabulary
When you’re full of curiosity, it means
you are curious and like to find out about
things. Do you think Curiosity is a good
name for the robot on Mars? Why or why
not? Many will say yes because the robot’s
job is to find out more about Mars. Some
might say no because a robot does what it is
told and doesn’t feel curious like people do.
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