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If you do not have History Quest Early Times, you can use the questions and writing prompt as research questions!
What is the resource?
Page-by-page questions for History Quest Early Times, chapter 4
A writing prompt with organizers and a sample response because I’m nothing if not an example giver
What’s the reasoning behind the resource?
I wanted questions I could stop and ask my kids while we read the chapter.
As for the writing component, I wanted your family/classroom and mine to have an opportunity to incorporate writing in a subject other than English. Writing is a part of every content area, and writing becomes more second-nature when we’re doing it in multiple content areas.
How can you use the resource or differentiate the activities?
For the questions, you could have kids…
answer the questions orally only.
respond to the questions on the paper.
I included answer keys as well as two versions of the questions (one with blanks & one without blanks).
answer each question immediately after it is answered in the text or…
wait to answer all questions for a page until you reach the end of each page
read independently and answer questions
listen to a read aloud of the text (you or the audiobook) and answer questions
For the writing prompt, you could have kids…
use this prompt as a discussion while you record the answers on the provided web.
only complete the planning for the prompt without completing the writing itself.
break down the organization of the sample paragraph but not write their own paragraph.
complete the entire writing process and before editing, you look at the sample paragraph in order to discuss topic sentences, evidence, explanations, transitions, and closing sentences.
dictate their responses to you (great option for grades 1 & 2 when they might not have as much stamina for physically writing).
do different amounts of the writing process depending on their age, skill, and stamina levels. For example, one of your kids might only be able to hang for the web. Meanwhile, your other kid might make it through the planning chart.
These are not all the kinds of questions you could ask as you read, but these questions should help kids understand key details from the chapter overall.
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