“ Encantado : Pink Dolphin on the Amazon” Genre: Expository Text

1. “Encantado: Pink Dolphin on the Amazon”Genre: Expository Text

2. Some other things to know about: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon: In the wet season, the swollen Amazon becomes a looking glass into another world, where pink dolphins swim like something from a dream. In Peru they are called bufeo colorado—the ruddy dolphin. Their color ranges from white to gray to a vivid pink. These astonishing mammals, actually river-dwelling whales, easily navigate their way through the complex, hazardous world of the Amazon rain forest.

3. TEAM TALK Turn to page 57 in your textbook…preview the title and illustration to predict what the text is about. With your partner…read the passage “Dolphins”. Notice the use of this week’s vocabulary words.

4. VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE RATING

5. dolphins: In context… Everything about them sounds impossible: pink dolphins! Dolphins are very smart. dolphin: a sea mammal related to the whale but smaller

6. dolphins With your partner, create a sentence using the vocabulary word above. dolphin: a sea mammal related to the whale but smaller

7. enchanted: In context… It means “enchanted.” Hansel and Gretel wandered in an enchanted forest. enchanted: “charmed” or “delighted greatly”

8. enchanted With your partner, create a sentence using the vocabulary word above. enchanted: “charmed” or “delighted greatly”

9. flexible: In context… They are so flexible they can even touch their tail to their nose-like a dolphin doughnut. A willow branch is flexible. flexible: “easily bent; not stiff; bending without breaking”

10. Flexible With your partner, create a sentence using the vocabulary word above. flexible: “easily bent; not stiff; bending without breaking”

11. glimpses: In context… Maybe the three glimpses you had were all of the same dolphin. As you travel, take more than glimpses of the scenery. glimpses: “short, quick views or looks”

12. Glimpses With your partner, create a sentence using the vocabulary word above. glimpses: “short, quick views or looks”

13. pulses: In context… Besides making sounds from their mouths, dolphins (as well as many whales) can also send out pulses of sounds, like an invisible beam of light, from inside their foreheads. pulses: “ any regular, measured beats, such as the beating of the arteries caused by the rush of blood into them after the heart contracts”

14. Pulses With your partner, create a sentence using the vocabulary word above. pulses: “ any regular, measured beats, such as the beating of the arteries caused by the rush of blood into them after the heart contracts”

15. surface In context… At first, it seemed that you would see the dolphins only far away– just a pink shimmer on the water’s surface. surface: “the top of the ground or soil, or of a body of water”

16. surface With your partner, create a sentence using the vocabulary word above. surface: “the top of the ground or soil, or of a body of water”

17. aquarium In context… Unlike the athletic dolphins who jump through hoops for aquarium shows, pink dolphins don’t leap out of the water. Aquarium: “ a building used for showing collections of live fish”

18. aquarium With your partner, create a sentence using the vocabulary word above. Aquarium: “ a building used for showing collections of live fish”