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Reading
Week 4 - Day 1
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- What do you already know about space? What do you know about astronauts?
- Read What is a SpaceWalk?
- What genre is this text? How do you know?
- Readers have questions before, during and after reading. List any questions you may have.
- What is this text mostly about? What are some of the key details you learned? Discuss with your family.
- Read for 25 minutes. Any book of choice.
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Reading
Week 4 - Day 2
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- Read What is a SpaceWalk? again.
- Talk about the author’s purpose in writing this text. What does the author really want us to think about and learn?
- Why do Astronauts go on spacewalks? Write down your thinking in your journal.
- Readers visualize as they read by making mental images. Draw your visualization of the following:
- When on a spacewalk, astronauts use safety tethers to stay close to their spacecraft. Tethers are like ropes. One end is hooked to the spacewalker. The other end is connected to the vehicle. The safety tethers keep astronauts from floating away into space.
- Read for 25 minutes. Any book of choice.
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Reading
Week 4 - Day 3
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- What are some character traits that astronauts would need to have? What makes you think that? Write down your thinking in your journal.
- What are some ways that astronauts stay safe?
- Read for 25 minutes. Any book of choice.
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Reading
Week 4 - Day 4
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- Click on this link and watch the video on spacewalks- Video/Website- Spacewalks
- How is the information in this video similar to the text about spacewalks you read the previous few days? How is the information different?
- Why would astronauts train underwater? How would that help them?
- Read for 25 minutes. Any book of choice.
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Reading
Week 4 - Day 5
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Quick Check!
- What does the word “thrusters” mean as it is used in paragraph 8 of the passage?
- Why are two doors needed to create an airlock on a spacecraft?
- What is one kind of important work that astronauts do when they are on a spacewalk?
- The text states that astronaut suits are pressurized. What does that mean?
- How do spacewalks help astronauts learn more about space?
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