Reflect on Your Reading

Think back on your reading of the unit selections. Discuss what you did to understand what you read.

Focus on Genre Organization of Ideas

In this unit, you learned about organizing ideas in a problem-solution text structure. Choose a selection from the unit and draw a Problem-and-Solution Chart to show how the selection is organized. Use your chart to explain the organization to a partner.

Reading Strategy Plan Your Reading

Before you read the selections, you learned how to preview and set a purpose for reading. Explain to a partner how you will use this strategy in the future.

Explore the Guiding Question

Throughout this unit, you have been thinking about the power good ideas have to solve problems. Choose one of these ways to explore the Guiding Question:

• • Discuss With a group, think of a problem at your school or in your community. Then make a list of ways to solve the problem. Discuss the solutions. As a group, decide the best solution.

• • Draw Think of something many people find difficult. Draw an invention that could help solve the problem. Share your invention with the class.

• • Write Write an advertisement for your invention above. Try to convince your audience that your product or service will solve their problem.

Book Talk

Which Unit Library book did you choose? Explain to a partner what it taught you about good ideas that solve problems.