Unit 6

Amazing Places!

Lesson 2

Yoho National Park, BC Canada

Reading in Social Studies helps you learn about people and places in our world.

You can learn many things about Canada by reading books, looking at pictures, and finding places on websites about Canada.


You will be reading reports about protected parks in Canada. A protected park means that the Government of the country manages the park with other groups to protect the natural beauty of the place.

Open your Literacy in Action 4B textbook to pages; 126 & 127. Read page 127 to refresh what you know about reading strategies.

You will be using three reading strategies to help you read material in reports.




Use What You Know

Helps you make new information easier to understand and remember. You use what you know about a place, either having been to a place like it, or read about it, so that you can connect the new information to something you are familiar with.


Decide What's Important

This means reading a whole section of a report and deciding which are the most important parts.


Summarize

This means organizing the important information you find into sections. You can do this with different organizers to help you like charts, webs, and sentences with key points.

You will be practicing the; "Use What You Know, Decide What's Important & Summarize, reading strategies in the next three lessons.


Before that you will visit the Kiddle website to begin learning about Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.


 

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Click on this Kiddle website to begin reading and learning about Banff National Park.

Reading the information about Banff National Park will help you understand how to read a report. You will need to think about how you will summarize the information that you find using a graphic organizer.


You will use the same organizer in the next few lessons.