March 2025

She Planted Millions of Trees

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Academic Standards

 

Reading Objective:

Students will learn about the life and legacy of environmentalist Wangari Maathai.

 

Social Studies Focus:

Women’s History Month

 

ELA Skills:

key details, vocabulary, problem/ solution, text features

 

Page 4 Skill:

read a diagram

 

Vocabulary:

essential, deforestation, community, saplings, reforestation

 

CCSS:

RI.2.1 key details; RI.2.2 identify main topic; RI.2.4 meaning of words; RI.2.5 text features; RI.2.10 read informational texts; W.2.8 gather information

 

Lexile level:

520L