Lesson Plans for FIREWORKS level Q

Before Reading

Introducing the Book
Discuss children’s own experiences with fireworks.
Say and ask: Share with the group what you already know about fireworks from your own experiences. Have any of you been to a fireworks display? Have any of you had fireworks at your home? On which occasions do people shoot off fireworks? Do any of you already know some safety when working with fireworks?
Hand out the books and have children read the title page and the table of contents.
Ask: From reading the title page and the contents page, what information do you expect to learn about fireworks from reading this text?

Build Background
Have children turn to the glossary on page 26.
Say: Read the bold face words.
Ask children which words they already know the meaning of. Have them read the definitions of these words to check that their prior understanding was correct. Discuss the words that are unfamiliar to them. Have children read the definitions. Discuss the words chemicals, spectacular, and miniature.
Ask: What are chemicals? Who can tell me the name of a chemical? What does spectacular mean? Who can tell me a synonym for spectacular? What does miniature mean? Who can use miniature in a sentence to show its meaning?

Book Walk
Have children scan page 5.
Say: Scan page 5 to see if you suggested all the occasions when people use fireworks to celebrate.
Have children turn to page 7 and read the first sentence to find out when fireworks were first used. Then have them turn to the section called "How Fireworks Are Made."
Say: Scan this page to find out more about combustion. This page will tell you how fireworks produce heat and light.
Have children turn to page 12 and read the chart of Fireworks Chemicals.
Say and ask: Read this chart to find out which chemical causes yellow lights and which chemical causes loud booms. What other information did you learn from this chart?
Have children view and discuss the illustrations on pages 13 and 14.
Say: Share what further information you learned from looking at these illustrations.
Have children to turn to page 18.
Say: This section explains how they set up fireworks displays. When you have read this section, you will be able to discuss what the show’s organizers have to do before you see the display.
Have children return to page 4


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