PAIREDREAD Poetry

Biography

by Mel Abelin

STRATEGIES & SKILLS

Photography Credit: Cover (bkgd) ICHIRO/Digital Vision/Getty Images, (l) Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division [LC-DIG-ppmsca-00676 DLC], (r) Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division [LC-DIG-ppmsca-08396], (b) Science & Society Picture Library/SSPL/Getty Images

**The total word count is based on words in the running text and headings only. Numerals and words in captions, labels, diagrams, charts, and sidebars are not included.

Comprehension Strategy: Ask and Answer

Questions Skill: Problem and Solution

Vocabulary began, better, guess, idea,

learn, right, sure, unusual

Phonics r-controlled vowels or,

oar, ore

Content StandardsSocial Studies

American History

Word count: 365**

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Chapter 1 Who Were the Wright Brothers? . . . . 2

Chapter 2 What Did the Wright Brothers Do? . . 4

Chapter 3 Who Invented the Airplane? . . . . . . . . 8

Respond to Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Poetry: Fly Away, Butterfly . . 13

Focus on Science . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Essential QuestionWhat inventions do you know about?

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Meet the two people who flew the first airplane! Wilbur and Orville Wright were brothers . Wilbur was born first, in 1867 . Orville was born in 1871 .

Wilbur is on the left, Orville is on the right.

Who Were the Wright Brothers?

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The boys grew up in Iowa, Indiana, and Ohio . They loved to learn, think, and create in school and at home .

School desks looked like this when the brothers were boys.

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What Did the Wright Brothers Do?

Wilbur got hurt playing hockey in 1885 . It took him three years to get better . He spent the time reading and taking care of his sick mom .

This is where the Wrights lived when Wilbur was recovering from his accident.

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Letters like these were used in printing presses.

Orville began working in a print shop . Wilbur joined his brother when he felt well . They invented a better printing press .

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In 1896, the brothers had another great idea . They fixed, sold, and built bicycles . They built a safer bike that was unusual for the time . It had two wheels that were the same size . It looked like the bikes we ride today .

Bicycles looked like this until the brothers built a bike like the one below.

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The brothers used money from the print and bike shops to begin their work with flight . Their dad had given them a flying toy when they were boys . They were interested in flight from then on .

The Wright brothers’ dad stands at the center of this family photo.

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Who Invented the Airplane?

The Wright brothers were sure they could build a flying machine . They needed to guess how to do it . Then they had to test their idea to see if they were right . They used model wings and wind tunnels . In 1902, they built a glider . It soared through the sky!

This was the third glider that Wilbur and Orville built.

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In 1903, the Wrights tested their first plane . They were in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina . The beachfront area was the best place for testing flight .

The beach had soft sand dunes and wide open spaces.

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Orville took the first flight . He soared through the air for 12 seconds . The plane went 120 feet . Airplane flight had begun!

In 1904 and 1905, the Wrights tested more planes . In 1908, they built the first plane for the United States Army .

Wilbur and others watched Orville take off.

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The brothers worked with flight until they died . Wilbur got sick and died in 1912 . Orville died in 1948 .

In 1928, there was a special event to thank the Wright brothers . A statue honoring them stands on a beach in North Carolina .

Big wings are carved into the sides of the statue.

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Retell

Use your own words to retell The Wright Brothers .

Text Evidence

1. Read page 4 . How did Wilbur spend time when he got hurt? Problem and Solution

2. Look at page 8 . What did the brothers do to see if their plane worked? Problem and Solution

3. How do you know that The Wright Brothers is a biography? Genre

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Compare TextsRead about how butterflies are similar to planes .

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Fly, fly away In the big, bright, beautiful sky . Soar and sway, Fly away, butterfly!

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Fly, fly away To the daisies and the daffodils . It’s a sunny spring day, Fly away, butterfly!

Make ConnectionsHow are butterflies and planes alike? Text to Text

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Purpose To learn about things that fly

What to Do

Write three things that fly .

Choose one thing from your list, and draw a picture of it .

Write a sentence that tells about your picture .

Conclusion Share your picture and sentence with the class .

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ThinkmarkNonfiction

The Topic What is The Wright Brothers mostly about?

Text StructureHow does the author organize information in The Wright Brothers?

Make ConnectionsHow is The Wright Brothers like other biographies you have read?

Literature Circles

GR I • Benchmark 16 • Lexile 500

Great Inventions Social Studies

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