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Grade 4 Unit 5
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Adventures by Land, Air, and Water
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Dear Teacher,
Reading Street offers multiple types of support for your ELL students — just look for this image in your Teacher's Edition: . Weekly on-level ELL Readers provide scaffolded text, supported with lesson plans. The ELL Teaching Guide includes vocabulary strategies and word cards, comprehension lessons, and multilingual selection summaries (English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Hmong). ELL Posters help students practice tested vocabulary and concepts. Ten Important Sentences are summaries of each Student Edition selection, which help struggling readers and ELL students develop comprehension skills.
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Cross-Curricular Resources
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Week One
Sailing Home: A Story of a Childhood at Sea
Oceans and Seas
Here's a chart of vital ocean and sea statistics.
Ocean Currents
Students learn about ocean currents with these two activities, and then map major ocean currents.
Pedro's Journal
Read about another boy's journey at sea in Pedro's Journal, by Pam Conrad.
Sea Measurement
Students explore measurements that are used by sailors on oceans and waterways.
Jacques Cousteau, Oceanologist
This resource provides the details of Jacques Cousteau's explorations, and suggests related activities.
Week Two
Lost City: The Discovery of Machu Picchu
Current Archaeology
Students pretend to be archaeologists in the year 3000 A.D.
Science and Social Studies: Acid Rain and the Mayan Ruins
Read how acid rain is destroying the Mayan ruins, and ask students to offer solutions.
Rock Cycle Match-Up
Students match answers about geology with the questions that belong to them.
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Ten Important Sentences Guide
These ten-sentence summaries of each Student Edition selection help struggling readers and English language learners develop comprehension skills.
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Week Three
Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride
Amelia Earhart
Here's a brief biography of Amelia Earhart.
Amelia Earhart's Solo Flight
Find facts and fun activities related to Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific.
Two First Ladies: Eleanor Roosevelt and Bess Truman
The chart on this page compares some facts about first ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Bess Truman.
U.S. Women's Firsts
A list of women and their great accomplishments, as well as when they took place.
Marie Curie's Discovery
Students learn about Marie Curie's research and her amazing discoveries in physics.
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Week Four
Antarctic Journal: Four Months at the Bottom of the World
Tourism in Antarctica
Encourage your students to research the effect of tourism on the Antarctic ecosystem, and then ask them to write arguments about whether tourism should be continued in this area.
The Global Environment Outlook: An Overview
This resource provides a list of the continents and their major environmental issues.
Science and Social Studies: The Good and Bad Effects of Glaciers
A reading passage and critical thinking questions about the effects of glaciers on land formation.
Heart Rate
Students record the number of heart beats per second after performing certain activities.
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ELL and Transition Handbook
The ELL and Transition Handbook provides professional development for the teacher. It contains the latest research and the best practices for meeting the needs of English language learners at all proficiency levels.
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Week Five
Moonwalk
The Moon
This reading comprehension activity is based on facts about the moon.
Moon Facts
Here are facts about moons all over the solar system!
Science, Technology, and Society: Where Mass Doesn't Matter
Students read about microgravity and the effects of weightlessness on astronauts, and then fill out a recall sheet.
Your Weight in Space
To find out what a person's weight would be on the sun and the other planets, complete the problems.
Unit Inquiry Project:
Great Adventures in History
Students choose an exciting adventure from history and conduct research to learn more about it.
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