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The week we explore the question "Why is everyone's role on a project important?" In the historical fiction selection Pop's Bridge, a boy learns about teamwork while watching his father build the Golden Gate Bridge.
Home Connection Activities!
Home Connection Activities!
Go Team! What role does teamwork play in your family routine? Talk with your child about how each member of your family helps other family members.
Vocabulary on the Go Ask your child to use this week's target vocabulary to talk about stores you visit in your community.
cling, excitement, stretch, foggy, balancing, tide, crew, disappears
Write About Teamwork - Ask your child to write about a team he or she is part of. It can be your family "team" or a team at school or in the community. Ask your child to include details about his or her responsibilities and those of other team members.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Build Background: Engineering
Build Background: Engineering
Engineering is the branch of science that deals with designing and building structures. Work crews follow engineering plans to construct bridges, machines, and buildings. For example, on a suspension bridge, engineers design the giant steel cables and high towers that hold up the road.
In Pop's Bridge, you'll read about the brave workers who built the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. You'll also learn about the pride and fear their families felt every day as those workers did one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.
Read the Story: "Pop's Bridge"
Read the Story: "Pop's Bridge"
GENRE
GENRE
Historical Fiction has characters and events that are like those in read. As you read, look for:
a setting that is a real time and place in the past
realistic characters and events
some made-up events and details
Read "Pop's Bridge" on page 126 of your Journeys Textbook
Click for Story Comprehension Questions
Click for Story Comprehension Questions
Continue your discussion of Pop's Bridge by explaining your answers to these questions:
Why do you think Robert considers it “Pop’s Bridge” even though he knows a whole crew is working on it?
What is Robert planning to do with the puzzle piece he hides? Why does Robert believe this is the right thing to do?
How do the people celebrate the opening of the bridge?
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast
In Pop's Bridge, the main characters are alike in some ways but different in others. As you read, compare and contrast the characters, or thinking of how they are alike and different. Look at their words and actions as as well as their traits, motivations, and feelings. How do these differences contribute to the sequence of events in the story?
Target Strategy: Infer/Predict
Target Strategy: Infer/Predict
As you read Pop's Bridge, use text evidence to infer, or figure out, more about what it takes to build a bridge. Also use the evidence to predict what will happen next in the story. Check to see if your predictions are correct.
Listen to the Story
Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns
Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns
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