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Children will discover how one student made changes in her school.
activism, voting
read a bar graph
menu, opinion, voted, soggy
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 “Kids Can Change the World.” When you’re done watching, ask the following question: What is one way kids can make changes in the world?
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: What’s for Lunch? Word Search
(skill: vocabulary)
Read a paired text: Lunch From Home by Joshua David Stein
This book celebrates the cultural diversity of bringing a lunch from home to school. In a cafeteria full of sandwiches, four students overcome the initial stares and scrunched noses of classmates to embrace their heritage!
Read an issue from the archive: Melody’s Playground (March 2022).
Meet Melody Day, a student who worked to make her school playground more accessible, in “Melody’s Playground” (March 2022).