http://www.dogonews.com/
Current Events, Science, Social Studies, Green, Sports, Entertainment and more. Teachers can select articles, create lesson plans. & invite students.
Sites for Finding Lesson Plans and Close Reading Tasks
Additional Reading - Select 2 of these articles to read for your last Close Reading Homework Entry.
Using Narrative Informational Book Circles, Connection Charts, and Notebooks to Showcase Science as a Human Endeavor by Julie Jackson & Gayle Allen. Science Scope, October 2007.
Module
Materials
Additional Resources
Close Reading
https://newsela.com/articles/icebucket-phenomenon/id/4940/
AND you can change the Lexile to make it easier or more difficult
Read Works Love this site for grade appropriate science texts K-12 with Lexiles
Smithsonian Tween Tribune
http://tweentribune.com/Leveled for K-4, 5-8, and 9-12
DOGO News - Kids News Articles
http://www.dogonews.com/Current Events, Science, Social Studies, Green, Sports, Entertainment and more. Teachers can select articles, create lesson plans. & invite students.
Sites for Finding Lesson Plans and Close Reading Tasks
TNCoreAchieve The Core
Core Stand Information and PAID Lessons
Close Reading Lessons with Text Dependent Questions
Grades K-5
Engineering Design Module
Picture Perfect Science Text
+ More on Close Reading
Articles for Close Reading on Flight
Grades K-3
Time to Fly!Animals with Parachutes
Putting Men on the Moon
Grades 4-5
The Amazing Flying MachineThe Bird Man
Return to Flight
Grades 6-8
How Do Airplanes Fly?
Designing the First Flying Machine
Seven Minutes of Terror
Grade 6-8
Engineering Design Module
Mini Rockets
Mini-Rockets Presentation
Interactive Notebook Packet
Article: “What is Aerodynamics?”
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/what-is-aerodynamics-58.html (Lexile 690)
Article: “Mechanics and Motion”
http://www.physics4kids.com/files/motion_intro.html (Lexile 940)
Article: “What is a Rocket?”
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/rocketry/home/what-is-a-rocket-k4.html (Lexile 980)
Excerpts from Skywriting: Poems to Fly
WatchLearnKnow.org Videos for How People Learned to Fly
Homework
Chapter 2 Graphic Organizer - Two Column Cornell with Depth and Complexity Icons
Chapter 3 Graphic Organizer - Non-Fiction Reading Response Board
Chapter 4 Graphic Organizer - Let's Analyze It
Chapter 5 Graphic Organizer - Write About
Chapter 6 Graphic Organizer - Depth and Complexity Choice Board
https://docs.google.com/document/d/151Aq5Tv-NHpK3lpQgTbJMT54FqL8BnYzeoAUfQNMP1I/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/163NA5j1RCzGkcwTth7VlPfWeSzSSSguvbEQdHKZT8N4/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OkEAALeOpN_1_JKK4VbXXI_HckLKK6qC9I4jfCo0Svk/edit?usp=sharing
Additional Reading - Select 2 of these articles to read for your last Close Reading Homework Entry.
Using Narrative Informational Book Circles, Connection Charts, and Notebooks to Showcase Science as a Human Endeavor by Julie Jackson & Gayle Allen. Science Scope, October 2007.
Taking the Time to Read Aloud by Patricia Braun. Science Scope, October 2010
Helping students navigate nonfiction text: Paving the way toward understanding by Jannette Moehlman, Science Scope, January 2013
Popular Science Nonfiction and the Connection Between Literacy and the NGSS by Elizabeth Lamond Price. Science Scope, September 2014