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Children will analyze how students carried supplies to school over time.
long ago and today
logic puzzles
book strap, supplies, responsible
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
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?
Project the online vocabulary slideshow and introduce this issue’s featured words.
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).