April 25 reading ideas
Finding reading ideas for this date…
Finding reading ideas for this date…
April 25 connects penguins, DNA, and telephone history. Check the year for readings about scent and independent bookshops.
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Read how penguin parents care for their young and explain one detail that helps the chicks survive.
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Explore Arctic & Polar Regions Reading Passages as additional context for this reading activity.
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Read what DNA carries and how its instructions are passed on.
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Explore Science Reading Passages as additional context for this reading activity.
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Read how telephones changed the way people could communicate across a distance.
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Explore Inventions Reading Passages as additional context for this reading activity.
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Read a fictional story in which a binturong follows scents and makes perfume. Identify how the author uses smell to develop the story.
Read a fictional story in which a binturong follows scents and makes perfume. Identify how the author uses smell to develop the story.
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Read how an independent shop can select books for its community and help readers discover a title.
Read how an independent shop can select books for its community and help readers discover a title.
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Celebrate the ways libraries help people find books, ask questions, and learn together. Use the collection for a class reading activity during National Library Week.
Celebrate the ways libraries help people find books, ask questions, and learn together. Use the collection for a class reading activity during National Library Week.
Open collectionMore reading for this time of year, alongside today’s special dates.
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Read stories about care, family, and ways to show appreciation.
Open collectionExplore plants, wildlife, and changing weather throughout spring.
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Read Decoding DNA: The Blueprint of Life. Choose one comparison the passage uses to explain DNA. State one thing the comparison helps you understand.
