4th Edition LANGUAGE! Overview

LANGUAGE!Listening andReading ComprehensionEnglishLanguageLearnersLanguage-BasedLearningDisabilitiesCurriculumCasualtiesIn Step 5, students read multipletext selections from differentgenres to develop fluency, buildbackground, learn vocabulary,and increase comprehension.Teaches comprehensionusing three different levelsof text, each with anincreasing level of difficulty:Content Area Topics:• Science, Social Studies,The HumanitiesGenres:• Expository• Fiction• Poetry• Drama• Adventure• Mystery• Sports• Science fiction• Historical fiction• Articles• Essays• Reviews• Plays• ScreenplaysSkills:• Types of text• Preview text• Build background• Text structure• Short-response questions• Open-ended questions• Multiple-choice questions• SummarizingMega-DialogBook A, Student TextWhat Is Jazz?Relax, kick back, and discover jazz. Jazz reminds usof our past, and jazz still lives today.TEACHER: Music is a language of its own. It has a written code andrecognized, meaningful symbols. Jazz is a kind of music. Whatis jazz?STUDENT: Jazz is a kind of music.TEACHER: Jazz is a type or kind of music. There are many kinds of music.You might be more familiar with rock or rap. What are jazz,rock, and rap?STUDENT: Jazz, rock, and rap are kinds of music.TEACHER: Many styles of music have their roots in classical music.Composers of classical music wrote very specific note sequencesfor musicians to play. Jazz differs from classical music. Thedifference has to do with how the musician uses written music.What is the difference?STUDENT: Musicians of classical music stick to the music. Jazzmusicians do not. They jam.TEACHER: When jazz musicians play their songs, they often add notes that114 Unit 5 • Jazz It Upare not written down. This is called improvising or “jamming.”A “jam session” is where musicians create new music or add toexisting music as they play. How do jazz musicians make theirmusic different?STUDENT: Jazz bands add notes that are not in the music. The notesthey add can have a fantastic impact!TEACHER: Some people like classical music for its style. Some peoplecriticize it because it is rigid. What do critics of classical musicthink of jazz?recipea list of stepsand parts neededto make food orsomething else118 Unit 5 • Jazz It UpHow did jazz begin? There was a “ recipe ” thathad many different ingredients. There were differentgroups of people, including Africans and Europeans.There were different kinds of music, including the5 blues and ragtime. All of these combined to makeAmerica’s own music, jazz. Here are some of theimportant ingredients.Workers sang songs as they worked together. Theysang in fields and on ships. They sang while working10 on the railroads. The work song was an important partof their day. With hammers or hoes in their hands,they worked to a steady beat. The songs made life alittle easier. There were many kinds of work songs, andthese songs played a part in jazz.15 Church music was important to jazz. AfricanAmericans made new kinds of church music. TheyIn Unit 5, Lessons 1, 2, and 3, students apply knowledgeof sound-spelling correspondences to read DecodableText. Then they read the Instructional Text selection andanswer comprehension questions based on that text.18 LANGUAGE! Overview www.sopriswest.com/language