First grade is learning about their final inventor, an African American scientist, George Washington Carver. After watching a BrainPop Jr. video, students partner read a brief biography about Carver’s life. Through this text, we are targeting the reading strategy of identifying elements of a biography and the comprehension strategy of retelling events. Vowel dipthongs, common nouns, proper nouns, and compound words will all be addressed through subsequent skill building activities. Expanding our vocabulary, students will be selecting key terms from the book (crop, famous, professor, slave, soil, Civil War, college, Congress, invented, respect) to illustrate and define. Students will be asked to generate synonyms and antonyms and complete analogies.
