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 Text Features in Nonfiction

In this unit, you learned how text features such as charts, graphs, and online links help you gain information. Choose a feature from one of the selections that was most helpful to you. Discuss with a partner why it was useful.

Reading Strategy Visualize

As you read the selections, you learned to visualize what you were reading. Explain to a partner how this strategy will help you in the future.

Explore the Guiding Question

In this unit, you have been reading about our precious world. Choose one of these ways to explore the Guiding Question:

• • Discuss With a group, discuss the Guiding Question. What makes our environment so valuable? How can we solve its problems? Share your ideas with classmates and give examples from the selections to support them.

• • Role-Play Imagine that Howard Quigley and Mireya Mayor meet to talk about the Guiding Question. With a partner, role-play their discussion. To help you create the discussion, think of two questions they might ask each other.

• • Draw Create a drawing to answer to the Guiding Question. Your drawing could be anything that shows your view about the value of our environment.

Book Talk

Which Unit Library book did you choose? Explain to a partner what it taught you about the environment.