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Please do not read this to the students.  This is a description for teachers, about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after completing this task.\nBig Ideas and Key Understandings\nThis expository selection discusses the daily life of hardworking farmers and cows on a modern dairy farm.\nSynopsis\nCows in the Parlor: A Visit to a Dairy Farm is an expository article about the daily running of a dairy farm.  Students learn about a day in the life of a cow, Maggie, including what she eats, how she’s milked, and other interesting facts.\nRead entire main selection text, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings.\nRe-read the main selection text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Vocabulary.\nDuring Teaching\nStudents read the entire main selection text independently.\nTeacher reads the main selection text aloud with students following along. (Depending on how complex the text is and the amount of support needed by students, the teacher may choose to reverse the order of steps 1 and 2.)\nStudents and teacher re-read the text while stopping to respond to and discuss the questions and returning to the text.  A variety of methods can be used to structure the reading and discussion (i.e.:  whole class discussion, think-pair-share, independent written response, group work, etc.)\nText Dependent Questions\nText Dependent Questions\nAnswers\nReread page 236.  Create a graphic organizer (bubble map) using the descriptive words in the text to describe the Jersey cow.\n“Jersey cows are always tan or brown.  Some have white spots on their faces or bodies.  They are friendly and like to be touched.”\nOn page 237, the text explains how farmers keep track of all of their cows.  How do they keep track of them?  Why?\nSince farmers have many cows and it is difficult to name them all, farmers put a tag with a number on a chain that hangs around the cow’s neck and another tag is attached to the cow’s ear. These numbers help farmers keep track of their cattle.\nOn page 238, the text says that cows like to graze in the pasture.  Using context clues, what does the word graze mean?\nUse the information on page 238 and create a list of steps explaining how cows eat.\nThe sentence immediately following the word contains the clue: “The sun is warm on Maggie’s back as she rests after eating.” The next paragraph mentions how cows pull and chew grass. Graze means to eat grass.\nThey have no front teeth to chew; therefore, they wrap their long rough tongue around tall grass to pull off a bite to chew with their strong back teeth.\nReread pages 238 and 239 to determine how farmers ensure that their cows have enough food to eat in order to produce good milk.  Use a graphic organizer (flow map) to organize your findings.\nDuring the summer the cows graze on grass is the pasture.  The farmers cut some of the grass to dry it out in the sun and roll it into bales of hay for the winter months.  The text says that the famer, ‘Charlie Riddle also makes feed from the corn that was planted in the spring.”  This is a supplement that cows need in order to produce good milk.\nOn page 240, the text describes how farmers store the chopped corn, which is called silage, for the winter months.  Using the picture and text clues describe how the farmers store and distribute the silage.\nThe farmers store the silage in a tall tower called a silo.  When the farmer needs the feed for the cows in the winter he uses a tractor and feed wagon to take the silage from the silo to a long trough called a bunk.\nReread page 241.  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