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Columbus Day: A Micro-Learning Deck | Reading Activities

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Look Inside · 9 pages

Columbus Day micro-learning deck cover lists video, audio, close reading, summarizing, and informational text
Cover of the 10-slide digital mini-lesson
Lesson overview lists videos, a reading passage with audio, a comprehension activity, and a quick write
Overview of the lesson components
Prior-knowledge slide asks what students know about Columbus Day and provides space for their responses
Opening prompt about prior knowledge
First reading slide introduces Columbus, the Age of Exploration, his 1492 voyage, and a settlement in Haiti
Part 1 of the Christopher Columbus reading
Second reading slide covers Columbus's brutal rule, Native population decline, and his four Atlantic voyages
Part 2 of the reading, with a voyage map
Vocabulary activity uses exploration, Far East, native, settlement, and voyage to complete five blanks
Fill-in-the-blank review of the reading
Video exploration slide directs students to click four photos showing Columbus and ships to view videos
Four photo links for video exploration
Summary activity asks for one sentence each using First, Next, Also, and Last, with a five-term word bank
Four-prompt summary activity
About slide describes Teach Me This, its micro-learning lessons, and Universal Design for Learning principles
Company background and lesson design information
Attributes
Subject

Holiday & Seasonal, Holidays, Columbus Day

Grades

Grade 4, 5, 6, 7

Types

Activities

File

Microsoft PowerPoint

Editable
No
Author
Teach Me This
Rating
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About This Product

The Columbus Day: A Micro-Learning Deck | Reading Activities resource is a 10-slide download that exposes your students to informational texts for Columbus Day.

This digital mini-lesson includes:

  1. -Video & Audio

  2. -Close Reading

  3. -Digital & Interactive

  4. -Summarizing

  5. -Informational Text

Students will enjoy interacting with this lesson and each of the activities!

What's Included

1 PowerPoint with 10 ready to display slides

Resource Tags

Columbus Day lesson plan Columbus Day informational text summarizing activity digital lesson reading activity

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