Read Kansas! - Fourth Grade

Explorers in Kansas

Home on the Range, Read Kansas cardRead Kansas! is a curriculum of student reading cards and teacher lesson plans for primary, intermediate, middle, and high school grades. Each lesson addresses a Kansas history standard as well as a state reading and/or writing standard. The lessons contain from one to 15 reading cards and a teacher lesson plan.

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Read Kansas! - Fourth Grade - Explorers in Kansas

Lesson
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History
Indicator

Reading
Indicator

Writing
Indicator

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Set/Lesson Plan

I-4

History: Benchmark 1:
Indicator 3:The student describes the observations of explorers who came to what was to become Kansas (i.e., Francisco Coronado, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Zebulon Pike, Stephen H. Long).

Reading: Benchmark 4: Indicator 2:The student understands the purpose of text features (e.g., title, pictures/illustrations, etc.) and uses such features to locate information in and to gain meaning from appropriate-level texts.

Reading: Benchmark 4: Indicator 4: The student generates and responds logically to literal, inferential, and critical thinking questions before, during, and after reading the text.

Writing: Benchmark 1:
Indicator 3: The student writes about one idea using pictures, letters, and words.

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In This Set

Title

Card (PDF)

Coronado Explores Kansas

Card 1

Lewis and Clark Explore Kansas

Card 2

Zebulon Pike Explores Kansas

Card 3

Stephen Long Explores Kansas

Card 4

Lesson Plan

Lesson


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