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Grade 4 Reading & Writing · World 7: Discovery Observatory · Level 55
What Happened and Why
Explain a historical event, a science process, or a technical procedure step by step, with its causes, from the text.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 55
- Informational texts often explain what happened and why: an event in history, a process in nature, or how something works.
- Read The First Flight. Watch for the steps and the reasons.
- The steps: the brothers study birds, test gliders at Kitty Hawk, test wings and build an engine, and fly! The reasons: steady breezes and soft sand made Kitty Hawk a good place to test.
- Science processes have steps and causes too. The sun's heat makes water evaporate. Cold air makes vapor condense into clouds.
- To explain something, tell the steps in order, and use words like because, so, and as a result to show why each one happens.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 4.T.T.2.b — Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text. (I)