Cranberries: Berries That Bounce
Students read a nonfiction passage about how cranberries grow and are harvested, written at 9 reading levels (kindergarten to 8th grade), and answer multiple-choice questions about it.
Student Objectives
- Read a nonfiction passage and explain why cranberries float during a wet harvest.
- Find details in the text that tell how fresh cranberries are picked.
- Explain the meaning of the word corral using clues from the sentence.
- Identify the main idea of a paragraph and the details that support it.