Summary
The season opener finds the Electric Company's word-targeting powers going haywire — abilities that normally zero in on key information suddenly can't hit the right words. While they troubleshoot, the episode models how skilled readers actively ask and answer questions ('who, what, where, when, why') to locate the most important information in a passage. Vocabulary spotlight: target, straight, direction, concentrate, twice.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Good readers ask questions before, during, and after reading to stay on target.
- What question helped the team most as they tried to fix their targeting powers? Was it a 'who,' 'what,' or 'why' question?
- When you're reading something tricky, what kind of question helps you most? Practise: turn one sentence from today's reading into a question.
- What is the difference between a detail that is nice to notice and a detail that is truly important to the story?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: key detail, question, target, concentrate, main idea.
Try it: Read one paragraph from a nonfiction article. Write one question starting with each question word (who, what, where, when, why). Then write the answer next to each question.