How do historic places, documents, and symbols represent our nation?

Family Letter

The Family Letter helps parents support the module's learning objectives.

Within this module there are 3 Weekly Assessments. These Weekly Assessments test students’ understanding of the current Reading skills (found below in anchor charts) by assessing comprehension and vocabulary.

The Weekly Assessments include the following question types:

• Selected response: These questions require students to choose an answer from several provided options.

• Constructed response: These questions require students to write or type a response.

• Technology enhanced adapted for print: Online, these questions require students to click, drag, or interact in order to respond. For print administration, these questions have been adapted to require students to draw or write to respond.

List the settings of the story in order.

What is the central idea of the article/text? Which detail best supports your answer? Under which heading would you find information about ___? What is the central idea of paragraphs 3-4?


Why does the author most likely use sequence structure to organize ideas? How does the text's structure support the author's purpose? What type of text structure does the author use? Why did the author most likely add paragraph 3 to the text?

Why did the author most likely include the picture? What do the headings in the text help the reader understand?

Why does the author use bold words?