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Selection 3 Overview
  • Build Background

  • Language & Grammar

    Summarize Use Verbs in the Past Tense

  • Prepare to Read

    Learn Key Vocabulary

    Learn a Reading Strategy

    Ask Questions

  • Read and Write

    Focus on Genre

    News Feature

    Apply the Reading Strategy

    Ask Questions

    Critical Thinking

    Reading Fluency

    Read with Intonation

    Vocabulary Review

    Write About the Guiding Question

  • Connect Across the Curriculum

    Literary Analysis

    Analyze Text Structure: Problem and Solution

    Vocabulary Study

    Use Word Parts

    Viewing/Speaking

    Distinguish Fact from Opinion

    Listening/Speaking

    Deliver a Problem-Solution Presentation

    Language and Grammar

    Summarize

    Writing and Grammar

    Write Consistently

    About the Past

Build Background
Connect

Discussion Read the following statements:

  • 1. If an individual wants to achieve his or her dream, he or she must first find others who share that dream.

  • 2. One person, working alone, can achieve more than a group of people.

Which statement do you agree with? In a discussion with your classmates, present arguments to support your opinion.

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