Famous Inventors and Inventions: 5 Reading Lesson

About this curriculum

Five stories on famous inventors and their inventions. Each topic contains an information story and a follow-up exercise designed to review and develop strong reading and phonetic skills. The vocabulary list may need to be presented before each story is read, it will help train students to use their phonetic and word attack skills effectively. Students will read about: Story#1: The De Havilland Beaver: A Traveller's Saviour Story#2: The Trans-Canada Highway: The World's Longest National Highway Story#3: The World's Tallest Totem Pole: A Beautiful First Nation Carving Story#4: The Inventor of Insulin: Doctor Frederick Banting Story#5: New Tools to Perform Body Functions: The Prosthesis Skills Practiced: #1 Recalling Details | Parts of Speech | Vowel Combinations #2 Context Clues | Adjectives/Adverbs | Syllabication #3 Recalling Details | Phrases | Blends/Digraphs #4 Recalling Details | Adverb/Adjective Phrases | Suffixes #5 Sequential Ordering | Objects | Root Words These are from 52 Weekly Stories About Canada Grades 4-5