Reading Comprehension | Social Studies | Fiction/Nonfiction Pairing | Gold Rush
Supports Best Practices in Reading by Pairing History-Based Nonfiction Stories with Fiction Stories on the Same Topic!
Each exciting and fact-filled story is accompanied by a dynamic, colorful, realistic illustration that brings the story to life and enhances the content. The nonfiction story gives a detailed, historic explanation of the topic. The matching fiction story makes the topic relatable to everyday life.
Reading Skills
Follow-up questions and activities help build important comprehension skills and strategies shared by and unique to nonfiction and fiction stories. By reading the stories and completing the accompanying activities, students will have a much greater understanding of these two key genres of reading.
“Gold Rush”
The nonfiction story sets up the fiction story with interesting facts about the thousands of people who came to California hoping to strike it rich by finding a gold mine.
“Moving On”
The fiction story tells about a family that experiences the “boom” and “bust”
associated with the California gold rush. They started with a successful business and ending up with nothing and having to move on.
Questions & Activities
Each story is followed by who, what, when, where, why, and how type questions.
Additional skill-specific questions for each story include: Main Idea, Locating Information, Fact or Opinion, Sequencing, Cause & Effect, Conclusion, Inference,
Summarizing, and Picture Interpretation.
Vocabulary activities include: vocabulary matching, word search, and context.
Details:
Each short story is about 345 words and is written at a 3.3 to 4.6 reading level according to the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale. The interest level is grades 4 and up.
Contents Include:
• 2 high-interest, illustrated, short stories
• 10 pages of questions and activities
• Glossary
• Answer Key
• 18 total pages
Reading Comprehension | Social Studies | Fiction/Nonfiction Pairing | Gold Rush
Supports Best Practices in Reading by Pairing History-Based Nonfiction Stories with Fiction Stories on the Same Topic!
Each exciting and fact-filled story is accompanied by a dynamic, colorful, realistic illustration that brings the story to life and enhances the content. The nonfiction story gives a detailed, historic explanation of the topic. The matching fiction story makes the topic relatable to everyday life.
Reading Skills
Follow-up questions and activities help build important comprehension skills and strategies shared by and unique to nonfiction and fiction stories. By reading the stories and completing the accompanying activities, students will have a much greater understanding of these two key genres of reading.
“Gold Rush”
The nonfiction story sets up the fiction story with interesting facts about the thousands of people who came to California hoping to strike it rich by finding a gold mine.
“Moving On”
The fiction story tells about a family that experiences the “boom” and “bust”
associated with the California gold rush. They started with a successful business and ending up with nothing and having to move on.
Questions & Activities
Each story is followed by who, what, when, where, why, and how type questions.
Additional skill-specific questions for each story include: Main Idea, Locating Information, Fact or Opinion, Sequencing, Cause & Effect, Conclusion, Inference,
Summarizing, and Picture Interpretation.
Vocabulary activities include: vocabulary matching, word search, and context.
Details:
Each short story is about 345 words and is written at a 3.3 to 4.6 reading level according to the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale. The interest level is grades 4 and up.
Contents Include:
• 2 high-interest, illustrated, short stories
• 10 pages of questions and activities
• Glossary
• Answer Key
• 18 total pages
Gold Rush - Social Studies - Paired Texts - Fiction to Nonfiction
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