Photograph of the title page of the selection “Kids are Inventors, Too”
Selection 3 Overview
  • Build Background

  • Language & Grammar

    Give Information

    Use Complete Sentences

  • Prepare to Read

    Learn Key Vocabulary

    Learn a Reading Strategy

    Plan Your Reading

  • Read and Write

    Focus on Genre

    Magazine Article

    Apply the Reading Strategy

    Plan Your Reading

    Critical Thinking

    Reading Fluency

    Read with Appropriate Phrasing

    Vocabulary Review

    Write About the Guiding Question

  • Connect Across the Curriculum

    Literary Analysis

    Analyze Kinds of Nonfiction

    Vocabulary Study

    Use Suffixes

    Research/Speaking

    Make a Diagram

    Listening/Speaking

    Conduct an Interview

    Language and Grammar

    Give Information

    Writing and Grammar

    Write Using Effective Sentences

Build Background
See Where Great Ideas Come From

Pair-Share An inventor often invents to solve a problem. They come up with great ideas that help people do things better. Anybody can be an inventor, even kids. All you need is imagination.

Connect

Think-Pair-Share Complete this sentence: A problem I want to solve is ______.

Share your idea with a partner. Brainstorm solutions to the problems.