Reading Themes

Theme 1: Nature's Fury

Learn about earthquakes, tornadoes,

and volcanoes.

Reading Strategy:  Predict and Infer

Reading Skills:  Sequencing, Text Organization, Categorize and Classify

Theme 2: Give It All You've Got

Learn about people who overcame difficulties to meet challenges in their lives.

Reading Strategy: Monitor and Clarify

Reading Skills: Fact and Opinion, Story Structure, Predicting Outcomes, Topic , Main Idea, and Supporting Details

Theme 3: Voices of the Revolution

Learning about people who lived during the American Revolution.

Reading Strategy: Summarize

Reading Skills: Author's Viewpoint, Cause and Effect, Following Directions

Theme 4: Person to Person

Learn about the importance of relationships.

Reading Strategy: Questioning

Reading Skills: Problem Solving and Decision Making, Noting Details, Comparison and Contrast, Making Inferences

Theme 5: One Land, Many Trails

Learn about life in the Old West

Reading Strategy: Evaluate

Reading Skills: Drawing Conclusions, Propaganda, Making Judgments, Story Structure

Theme 6: Animal Encounters

Read about people who like to learn about animals.

Reading Strategy: Monitor and Clarify

Reading Skills: Making Generalizations, Topic, Main Idea, and Supporting Details, Drawing Conclusions.