Celebrating Traditions
Theme: The United States has a rich cultural heritage.
Learning Strategies: Evaluate, question, and summarize
Skills:
Comprehension: identify the topic, main idea and details; understand the author's viewpoint
Decoding: compound words, plurals, contractions, and three-letter clusters
Study Skills: following directions, taking notes, skim and scan, using the library
Writing: paragraphs that compare and contrast, character sketch