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Academic Standards

 

Learning Objective:

Children will understand what happens at a Blue Angels air show.

 

Social Studies Focus:

Veterans Day

 

Page 4 Skill:

read a diagram

 

Vocabulary:

air show, salute, cockpit, veterans

 

CCSS:

RI.1.1 ask and answer questions; RI.1.4 determine meaning of words; RI.1.5 text features; RI.1.6 distinguish between information provided by pictures and words; RI.1.10 read informational texts; RF.1.2 vowels; SL.1.1 participate in collaborative conversations

 

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Watch the video

Build background knowledge by watching “Thank You, Veterans!” When you’re done, ask students: What is a veteran?

Preview new vocabulary words

Project the online vocabulary slideshow and introduce this issue’s featured words.

Set a purpose for reading

  • Have students do a picture walk through the issue, then read and discuss the cover. Have any students seen an air show? How many jets do students see on the cover?
  • Then, before turning to page 2, say, “As we read the article, think about what it would be like to watch the Blue Angels air show.”
  • Read each box, stopping at the end of the box to discuss and review the photographs.
  • Help students connect what they have read with what is shown in each photograph. For example, what does a salute look like? What shape do jets make when they do a Delta Roll?
  • Complete the page 4 activity as a group or individually.
  • When you’re done, do the Dance Break!

Deepen students’ learning with any of these supplemental activities:

Play the online game: Make a Poster

(skill: reading comprehension)

Complete a hands-on activity: Paper Jet Show!

Kids follow steps and work in groups to put on a paper jet show. (skills: fine-motor skills, engineering, following directions)

Read a paired text: Veterans: Heroes in Our Neighborhood by Valerie Pfundstein

Students will learn that many veterans may be living right in their town as they enjoy the rhyming text in Veterans: Heroes in Our Neighborhood by Valerie Pfundstein.