Lesson 3.1 - The Man Who Named the Clouds by Julie Hannah and Joan Holub
The Man Who Named the Clouds is a biography about a man named Luke Howard who made discoveries about clouds.
Focus Skills of the Week: graphic sources important ideas vocabulary - multiple-meaning words
Lesson 3.3 - How Night Came from the Sea retold by Mary-Joan Gerson
How Night Came from the Sea is a myth from Brazil that explains why there is day and night.
Focus Skills of the Week: making generalizations visualizing vocabulary - unfamiliar words
Lesson 3.2 - Adelina's Whales by Richard Sobol
Adelina's Whales is an expository text about the whales who migrate each year to the waters next to Adelina's hometown in La Laguna San Ignacio in Mexico.
Focus Skills of the Week: fact and opinion text structure vocabulary - multiple-meaning words
Lesson 3.4 - Eye of the Storm by Stephen Kramer
Eye of the Storm is an expository text about the work of photographer Warren Faidley during Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
Focus Skills of the Week: cause and effect predict and set purpose vocabulary - sroot words
:Lesson 3.5 - Paul Bunyan by Mary Pope Osborn
Paul Bunyan is a tall tale about the adventures of the larger-than-life American folk hero Paul Bunyan and his ox, Babe.
Focus Skills of Week: making generalizations inferring vocabulary - suffixes