Home Plan - [GR1-L4-U1-LC1-1 Statues in the Sand]

The document provides guidance and tips for guided reading at level 4, focusing on sand sculpting. It covers learning objectives like using new words, identifying main ideas, and summarizing text. The narrative introduces new vocabulary related to sand sculpting, discusses the process of creating sand statues, techniques used by sculptors, and reading strategies like summarizing and retelling with details. It also mentions that sand sculptors participate in contests worldwide and put in significant effort to create intricate sand statues resembling real people, animals, and cities.

Contents

• Pages 1—31: Guided reading tips.
• Pages 32—49: Sand sculpting process details

This section of the document provides tips for guided reading at level 4. It includes learning objectives such as using new words, identifying main ideas and details, and summarizing text. The section introduces new vocabulary words like “amazing,” “carve,” “contests,” “sculptors,” “sand castles,” and “statues.” It also guides the reader on understanding these words. The text discusses sand sculptures, sculptors, how they make statues, and their techniques, such as using glue to preserve the statues. Additionally, it highlights the reading strategy of summarizing by retelling using details and mentions sand sculptors create interesting statues and sand castles. The document also includes questions to facilitate comprehension and engagement with the text.

This section of the document provides tips and guidance for students while reading about sand sculpting. It explains the process of creating sand statues, including packing the wet sand down, carving the sand using tools and hands, and shaping the sand to look like real people and animals. It mentions that sand sculptors use a big pile of sand, wet it while filling wooden walls, and begin carving from the top of the sandpile. Additionally, it highlights that amazing sand statues can be made to resemble real people, animals with teeth and claws, and even cities. The document concludes by emphasizing that sand sculptors put in a lot of work to create giant sand statues and participate in contests worldwide.