Book Summary
Joe Kittinger is a man of extraordinary courage who made important contributions to the field of space exploration. Students will learn about Kittinger's work with high-altitude balloons and incredible acts of bravery that benefited both pilots and astronauts. Photographs support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand text
• Sequence events of a person's life
• Understand and use hyphenated compound adjectives
• Fluently read numbers within the text

Materials

• Book -- Joe Kittinger: An Unsung Hero (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• KWLS, vocabulary, sequence events, compound adjectives worksheets

   Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: accelerated, aeronautics, altitude, cosmonaut, elongated, fatal, gondola, hostile, invaluable, obsessed, solitary confinement, stratosphere