Book Summary
Where would you go if you didn't have anything but a ship to call your own? Ships of Discovery is an informational text about the ships that great explorers used when discovering new lands. The book also talks about the people who set out on those first great journeys and their motivations for going. Ships of Discovery is a great book for imagined journeys.

Vocabulary
Content Words
Egyptians
hull
exploration
continent
Mediterranean
Greeks
African
Asian
New Guinea
catamaran
voyage
Polynesian
Vikings
knarr
caravels
Endeavour

Reproducibles
Worksheets
Worksheet 1-Compare and contrast early ships of discovery built by different ethnic groups.
Worksheet 2-Parts of speech: nouns, adjectives

Lesson Objectives

Comprehension
You will likely address a number of comprehension skills as students work to understand the text. The targeted comprehension strategy for this lesson is: Compare and contrast information from within the text.

Word Work

Contractions
Identify and list contractions.

Parts of speech

Nouns
Describe and use nouns.

Adjectives
Describe and use adjectives.

Visual Literacy
Read and interpret a Time line.
Read and interpret a map.