Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest
Author: Steve Jenkins
Genre: Expository Text
Question of the Week: What makes nature's record holders unique?
Paired Selection: Paul Bunyan and the Great Lakes
Genre: Legend / Tall Tale
Author: retold by Don Abramson
Comprehension Skill:
Graphic Sources- Graphic sources are ways of showing information visuallly, or in a way you can see.
Your child should be able to gain meaning from charts, diagrams, and maps in a story.
Important Ideas- Before you read a story, look for the important ideas in titles, topic sentences, keywords and captions.
Your child should be able to stop during reading and tell you what the text is about.
Vocabulary Skill: Unknown words / Dictionary and Glossary
Writing: Imaginative Story