Students assess a variety of reading strategies to properly develop a list of grocery words. They draw conclusions about environmental print by matching labels to sentences. Real-life words utilized weekly becomes an asset to the...

Young scholars evaluate the health of breakfast foods. They create and solve word problems using cereal nutrition data. They solve additional problems formulated in class and write short essay on what they learned.

Students read the article "Feeling Sleepy?" students compare the article to a sleep survey they do in their class, describe problems that can arise from not getting enough sleep and identify strategies for getting adequate sleep.

Students study facts about living with asthma. They examine medical treatments and lifestyle changes that can improve the life of asthmatics. They determine the cause and effect relationship.