Selection 2 title page, Martin's Big Words
Selection 2 Overview
  • Build Background

  • Language & Grammar

    Describe an Event

    Use Forms of Be

  • Prepare to Read

    Learn Key Vocabulary

    Learn a Reading Strategy

    Ask Questions

  • Read and Write

    Focus on Genre

    Biography

    Apply the Reading Strategy

    Ask Questions

    Critical Thinking

    Reading Fluency

    Read with Expression

    Vocabulary Review

    Write About the Guiding Question

  • Connect Across the Curriculum

    Literary Analysis

    Evaluate a Biography

    Vocabulary Study

    Use Word Parts: Suffixes

    Media/Viewing

    Make a Collage

    Viewing/Speaking

    Express Your Views

    Language and Grammar

    Describe an Event

    Writing and Grammar

    Write About the Past

Build Background
Hear Powerful Words

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., used the power of language to speak up for civil rights. Forty years after his death, his speeches still inspire people today.

Connect

Quickwrite Words can be powerful. Recall words that have affected you. Perhaps it was advice that helped you, or words from a movie or a song that inspired you. Describe the effect these words had on your life.