LESSON SLIDES

Reading and Vocabulary.

Grade 3 • Module 8 • Week 1 • Lesson 2.
In this lesson:
• Academic Vocabulary: Introduce Critical Vocabulary
• Shared Reading: Make Inferences with Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives

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 Academic Vocabulary.

Let’s learn new words!

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Academic Vocabulary.

Let’s Learn!
valuable 1. U
​ se the Vocabulary flip cards in Vocabulary
device
Interactive Practice or look at Vocabulary
dictation
Cards 8.5–8.10.
technology
2. ​Discuss each word using the cards.
radar
breakthrough

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Academic Vocabulary.

Let’s Practice!
1. W
​ hen something is valuable, do you
want to give it away? Why or why
not?
2. ​If you could take only one device on a
trip, which one would you take?
Explain.
3. ​If you are doing dictation, what tools
4. ​How does technology help us in our
daily lives?
5. ​Does radar help people hide things or
find things? Explain.
6. W
​ ould a scientist be upset to make a
breakthrough? Why or why not?

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do you need?
Shared Reading.

Let’s read and discuss

Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed
Our Lives!

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Shared Reading.

ANCHOR
THE
SKILL.

What does it mean to make inferences?

• What could you infer from reading about a
character who is crying?

• Why do you think authors might not state

everything in a text?

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Anchor Chart 7
Shared Reading.

Go to pages 192–193 in your myBook.

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ANNOTATE IT!
Use the box in your myBook to set a purpose for
reading and note what you want to learn.
Shared Reading.

MAKE INFERENCES

Let’s Read! What inferences can you make after reading

pages 194–195
paragraphs 1 and 2?

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Shared Reading.

Let’s Read! What can you learn about the Menlo Park lab
pages 196–197
from the illustration?

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ANNOTATE IT!
Underline the text that tells who worked at the
Invention Factory and what they did.
Shared Reading.

How do the details in the illustration connect to the

text?
Let’s Read! What tone does this illustration help create? Why?
pages 198–199

How do the text and illustration on

page 199 connect to the text and illustration on
page 198?

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Shared Reading.

What were some of the “multiple purposes” of

Let’s Read!
Thomas Edison’s phonograph?
pages 200–201
What do these many uses tell you about Thomas
Edison’s hopes for improving people’s lives?

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Shared Reading.

MAKE INFERENCES.

Let’s Read!
What inference can you make from the text and
pages 202–203
illustrations about what Thomas Edison’s first
nickel-iron storage battery stored?

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Shared Reading.

What failure of Thomas Edison’s led to other

Let’s Read!
uses for his battery?
pages 202–203

How does this connect to an earlier idea

about failure in the text?

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ANNOTATE IT!
Underline the text that tells why
Edison’s idea was a failure.
Shared Reading.

How is the way that the text and illustrations are

placed on pages 204 and 205 different from the
Let’s Read!
pages 204–205
previous pages?

Why do you think the author included

the arrows?

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Shared Reading.

Why does the author include Thomas

Let’s Read!
Edison’s quotation in paragraph 20?
pages 206–207
How was the Kinetograph similar to and
different from the phonograph?

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ANNOTATE IT!
Compare and contrast details about each
invention in your notes.
Shared Reading.

MAKE INFERENCES

What inference can you make

Let’s Read!
pages 208–209 about hearing the sound from
the Kinetophone?

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Shared Reading.

Which words in paragraph 25 have the same

word part, or root?
Let’s Read!
page 209
What does the root phon mean?

How do you know?

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ANNOTATE IT!
Highlight the matching root in each word
from paragraph 25.
Shared Reading.

What two ways of sending electronic messages are

Let’s Read!
shown on page 210?
pages 210–211
How did Thomas Edison help make these two
ways of sending messages possible?

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Shared Reading.

Let’s Read! How does the author support his idea that our lives
pages 212–213
have been made better by Edison’s inventions?

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ANNOTATE IT!
Underline the evidence that shows how the
author supports his idea.
Shared Reading.

Let’s Read!
page 213 Why was the lightbulb a breakthrough?

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Shared Reading.

MAKE INFERENCES

How did Edison feel about his ability to

Let’s Read!
pages 214–215 invent an effective electric light?

How do you know this?

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ANNOTATE IT!
Note another inference you can make about
Thomas Edison on page 214.
Shared Reading.

What sentence in paragraph 34 that tells about

Thomas Edison’s Pearl Street generator could also
Let’s Read!
pages 214–215
be used to describe his other inventions?

What central idea in this text does that sentence

explain?

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Shared Reading.

WRAP-UP

Let’s Read!
What did you learn from the text?
page 216
What is something that surprised you?

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Shared Reading.

Make Inferences.
Clues in the Text. What I Know. Clues in the Text. What I Know.

Inference. Inference.

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Graphic Organizer 7
Shared Reading.

Speaking Listening
• Take turns speaking. • Listen actively.
• State and explain your • Notice the speaker’s
ideas clearly. gestures and expressions.

• Stay on topic. • Follow up to clarify what

• Connect your comments
you heard.
to those of others.

• Answer questions. • Ask relevant questions.

• Offer your opinion, • Identify points of agreement

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supported with reasons. and disagreement.
• Use specific vocabulary
and language appropriate • Summarize key ideas.
for the audience.
Anchor Chart 33
Shared Reading.

COLLABORATIVE
Listening Tip.
DISCUSSION.
Listen carefully when a group member asks you a
question. What information is the speaker asking for?
Read the Listening
and Speaking Tips.

Speaking Tip.
When a group member asks you a question, first restate
his or her question to make sure you understand what he
or she is asking.

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Shared Reading.

COLLABORATIVE
DISCUSSION.
1 Reread page 197. Why did Edison think his failures
were important?

Now, let’s discuss

each question. 2 Review pages 200–201. What are some reasons that
Edison’s phonograph was a useful invention?

3 What details in the text explain why the whole

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country wanted to honor Edison on the day of his
funeral?