Unit 3

What Does It Mean to Explore?

Activity

Space Tomatoes

Now, you will learn how the space program provides astronauts with tasty, nutritious food.


You will explore the following questions:

  • How might space affect the way plants grow?
  • How do writers use questions to organize information?

Getting Started


Read the question in the green Read Like a Writer textbox on page 137 of Literacy in Action: How does the writer use questions to organize the information?

The activities in this section will help you answer this question.


Click each coloured row for information about the activity.

Before you read Space Tomatoes on pages 136 to 139 of Literacy in Action, notice the heading questions that writers use to organize the information.


You will use these headings to guide your reading and list key ideas from your reading and other questions that come to mind. 

As you read Space Tomatoes, you will:


  1. Make use of the reading strategies from the previous lessons in this unit:
      • ask questions
      • pause and Check
      • summarize

  2. Notice the new vocabulary you encounter while reading Space Tomatoes and think about new questions you have about growing food in space.