The Environmental Movement
Reading Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World
Grade Range: K-4
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities
Duration: 30
minutes
Date Posted:
9/24/2012
Actively read Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World using the suggested reading strategies. Part of an OurStory module entitled Discover and Protect Nature, this activity includes a list of challenge words, active reading suggestions, and background information. OurStory is designed to help children and adults explore history together through the use of children's literature, museum objects, and hands-on activities.
National Standards
Standards For English Language Arts (Grades K-12)
Top-Level Standards
3: Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).