Pages 1 to 6 are three events, each a page with a diary and a news story side by side, then a page of questions. Page 7 sorts firsthand and secondhand accounts, and page 8 compares two accounts of any event.
Read the diary aloud first, then the news story. Ask the class which words could only come from someone who was there, and which facts the reporter had to find out from others.
Tell your child about something you both saw, then read a news story about something similar. Talk about what your own account had that the news story did not.
Three animal events, a giraffe's birth, sea turtles hatching and a seal pup going home, each told in a diary by someone who was there and in a news story, at a 4th grade level. Children compare the two accounts, what each one tells and how their focus differs.
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