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Reading Assignment: First Explorers of Canada

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Cover of the nonfiction reading assignment The First Explorers by Mickael Costa, showing a sailing ship illustration
Title page to hand out with the student packet
Table of contents for the packet: predictions, prior knowledge, the text, reading strategies, questions and answer key
Planning overview of the packet's activity order
Making predictions: students study the title, subtitles and illustrations, write numbered predictions and explain each
Pre-reading task before handing out the text
Prior knowledge: students write what they already know about the explorations in North America before reading
Activate background knowledge as a warm-up
Nonfiction text to read on First Nations and Inuit, the Vikings at L'Anse-aux-Meadows, and Cabot's 1497 and 1498 voyages
Core reading passage for the comprehension questions
Reading strategies self-check: students color circles beside strategies they use, like visualizing and rereading a section
Reflection on reading habits after the passage
Comprehension questions 1 to 7: students write answers on the First Peoples' origins, Cabot's voyage and the Vikings
Written recall check on the reading, part one
Comprehension questions 8 to 14 on why the Vikings left, Cabot's boats and voyage dates, and why England stopped exploring
Second half of the question set for homework or class

Answer key included

Answer key included
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Subject

Social Studies, History, History: Canada

Grades

Grade 3, 4, 5, 6

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

p.4 Making  predictions

p.5 Prior knowledge

p.6 Text with illustrations

p.7 Reading strategies

p.8-9 Questions

p.10-11 Answer key

p.12 Making connections

p.13 Opinion about the text

p.14 Favorite passage

p.15 Transforming 

p.16 Cliparts credits

What's Included

1 pdf and 16 pages

Resource Tags

explorers canada exploration exploration sailboart reading

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