Photograph of the title page from the selection “Wings”
Selection 3 Overview
  • Build Background

  • Language & Grammar

    Retell a Story

    Use Complex Sentences

  • Prepare to Read

    Learn Key Vocabulary

    Learn a Reading Strategy

    Synthesize

  • Read and Write

    Focus on Genre

    Short Story

    Apply the Reading Strategy

    Synthesize

    Critical Thinking Reading Fluency

    Read with Expression

    Vocabulary Review

    Write About the Guiding Question

  • Connect Across the Curriculum

    Literary Analysis

    Compare Characters

    Analyze Plot Events

    Vocabulary Study

    Analyze Similes

    Research/Speaking

    Research Greek Myths

    Language and Grammar

    Retell a Story

    Writing and Grammar

    Write About Myths

Build Background
Explore Flying Machines

Look at pictures of early flying machines. How do you think they worked?

Connect

Sort Drawings What kind of flying machine would you invent? Make a sketch of it. Then, as a group, form categories based on how the inventions look or move. Sort the sketches.

Category Web

Category Web