EXPLORATION: Words & Music Weeks 1 & 2 Contents
Getting Organized .......................................................................................................... vi Themes & Units ................................................................................................................. vii Unit at a Glance ............................................................................................................. viii Planning & Pacing ............................................................................................................ x Additional Support ......................................................................................................... xi EXPLORATION : Around the World Weeks 1 & 2...............................................................................................................2 Weeks 1 & 2 Planner...............................................................................................4 Read-Aloud (Whole Class) Refugee. ..................................................................................................................... 6 North ..........................................................................................................................8 I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives..........................................................................................10 Threads ....................................................................................................................12 Peak ..........................................................................................................................14 Teacher-Led Reading Instruction (Small Group) Fearless .................................................................................................................. 16 A Girl Named Disaster..........................................................................................18 Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story .....................................................20 Book Clubs (Independent/Partner/Small Group) Crocodile Rescue!...................................................................................................22 Lost in the Amazon: A Battle for Survival in the Heart of the Rainforest .................................................................................24 Shackles From the Deep .....................................................................................26 Tiger Rescue: All About Tigers and How to Save Them .............................28 CONNECTIONS: Me, Myself & I Weeks 3 & 4 . ................................................................................................. 30 Weeks 3 & 4 Planner ..................................................................................... 32 Read-Aloud (Whole Class) An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio.........................................................34 Guys Read: Funny Business ...............................................................................36 Inside Out & Back Again......................................................................................38 They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems ...................................................40 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus ...................................................42 Teacher-Led Reading Instruction (Small Group) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Red-Headed League (play version) .........44 Drawing From Memory .......................................................................................46 Teens at War............................................................................................................48
iv Scholar Zone Summer: Reading & Writing
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