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The document provides a comprehensive guide to guided reading focusing on the topic of salt. It covers various learning objectives including summarizing as a reading strategy, cause-and-effect relationships, and understanding salt-related idioms. It introduces key vocabulary and activities for student engagement, discusses the importance of salt in the body, and explores different cultural and historical uses of salt. The text emphasizes the significance of salt in various scenarios and touches on the importance of salt in different cultures and historical practices. Additionally, it explains the purpose of spreading salt on icy surfaces, its significance for safety, and the overall importance of salt for survival.

Contents

• Pages 1—27: Guided reading on salt.
• Pages 28—45: Salt: Cause and effect.
• Pages 46—55: Salt for safety

This section of the document provides tips and strategies for guided reading centered around the topic of salt. It includes learning objectives such as using summarizing as a reading strategy, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, and understanding common idioms related to salt. The section also introduces key vocabulary words such as crystals, dissolved, evaporate, mineral, preserve, and sodium, with corresponding activities to help students understand their meanings. Additionally, it explains the importance of salt in the body, common sayings related to salt, and the concept of cause and effect in reading comprehension. The document aims to engage students in reading and understanding the text through various activities and discussions.

This section of the document discusses the concept of cause and effect related to the use of salt in various scenarios. It mentions examples such as using salt to preserve food, to keep milk from spoiling, in mummification, and in fast car racing on salt flats. It also highlights other uses of salt, such as treating illness, making glass, and cleaning chimneys. Additionally, it describes the historical practices of obtaining salt from ocean water and rock formations, including mining salt from underground deposits. The text also touches on the significance of salt in different cultures, including how Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt.

Salt is spread on icy roads and sidewalks to prevent cars from crashing and people from slipping. The salt used today is not intended for food but to lower the freezing point of water. Salt was historically expensive and hard to obtain, but now it is readily available. The body needs salt for survival. Idioms related to salt are discussed, such as “take it with a grain of salt.” The lesson involves understanding the purpose of spreading salt, cause-and-effect relationships, and learning common idioms.