January 6 reading ideas
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Explore New Mexico’s places and history for its statehood anniversary. A separate reading follows the development of the telegraph. Follow a classroom bean seed as it sprouts and grows.
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Explore Santa Fe, Taos Pueblo, and Carlsbad Caverns through regional reading passages, then locate the places on a New Mexico map.
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Explore this topic through The Bats of Carlsbad Caverns.
Read passageFollow Charlotte as she settles into a new home in Santa Fe.
Read passageTaos Pueblo als levende gemeenschap en cultureel erfgoed; dekt oudere lezers.
Read passageGeologie van Carlsbad Caverns; aanvullende geografische verdieping.
Read passageExplore a discovery of ancient human footprints in New Mexico.
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Discover how telegraph technology carried messages over long distances and changed communication.
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Use Inventions Reading Passages as related background or for comparison.
Open collectionExplore this topic through Wiring the Atlantic Ocean.
Read passageDiscover how the telegraph used electrical signals to send messages over long distances.
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Follow a classroom bean seed as it sprouts and grows.
Sequence the changes that happen as the bean seed grows.
Read passageYour topic. Your level.
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Visit Santa Fe in Charlotte's New Home in Santa Fe, learn about a living community in Taos Pueblo: Ancient Tradition and Living History, or explore cave geology in Beneath the Desert: Exploring Carlsbad Caverns. The New Mexico map helps readers find these settings.
How Electricity Learned to Talk: The Story of the Telegraph introduces the technology. Ask students to compare sending a telegraph message with a way people communicate today.
Follow a classroom bean seed as it sprouts and grows. Read The Secret Beneath the Soil and sequence the changes that happen as the bean seed grows.
