Academic Standards

 

Reading Objective:

 

Children will analyze how students carried supplies to school over time.

 

Social and Life Skills:

long ago and today

 

Page 4 Skill:

logic puzzles

 

Vocabulary:

book strap, supplies, responsible

 

CCSS:

RI.2.1 key details; RI.2.2 identify the main topic; RI.2.4 determine meanings of words; RI.2.10 read informational texts; RF.2.3 identify words; RF.2.4 read on-level texts; W.2.1 writing; SL.2.1 collaborative conversations; SL.2.3 ask and answer questions

Watch the video

Build background knowledge about things long ago and today by watching “What Changes Over Time?” When you’re done watching, ask the following question: What is something that is different today than it was long ago?

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. Ask students to predict what kids used long ago to carry their things to school.
  • Then before turning to page 2, say, “As we read the article, think about how backpacks have changed over time.”

Use the Read and Think skill sheet to check comprehension as you read the issue as a class. At each stopping point on the sheet, pause to discuss the questions. Students can fill out the sheet as you go along.

Play the online game: School Search and Find

(skill: vocabulary)

Read a paired text: School Days Then and Now by Bobbie Kallman

Backpacks aren’t the only things that have changed over time for students. Travel back in time with this informational text that will take readers through a day of what learning in a one-room schoolhouse was like!!

Read an issue from the archive: Why Are School Buses Yellow? (September 2024)

Explore how school buses have changed over time in “Why Are School Buses Yellow?” (September 2024).