Second trimester we’ll be reading, writing and thinking about Explorers while focusing on the expository form, Latin roots and continuing Battle of the Books on the side.

Explorers Resources

Colorado Content Standards:

Students read and understand a variety of materials.

• Compare and contrast different texts with similar themes and ideas.
• Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details in fiction and nonfiction.

Students read to locate, select, and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, references, and technological sources.

• Locate others’ ideas, images, or information in a bibliography, works cited page, or text features (for example, quotations, italics, parentheses, and footnotes).
• Locate meanings and pronunciations of unfamiliar words using dictionaries, glossaries and other sources.
• Give credit for borrowed information by listing sources.

Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.

• Read and respond to a variety of literature (for example, novels, poetry, short stories, nonfiction and plays) that represents perspectives from places, people, and events that are familiar and unfamiliar.