Companion Texts: Provide a series of short companion texts that will supplement the extended text and provide students with a deeper understanding of the themes, motifs, or context of the extended text. 1-3 Short Informational Texts Label Difficulty: Advanced A short description of the text Text Title and Author Grade Level and how it relates to the extended text Meant for Scaffolding Safely to Describes the purpose and history of lighthouses, how Grade level Shore: America’s Lighthouses by Iris they work, who keeps them, and relates stories about VanRynbach famous American lighthouses. The Bravest Woman in Tells the true story of Ida Lewis, explaining how she by Marissa Moss America learned to tend a lighthouse from her father, Grade level discussing her responsibilities as the lighthouse keeper, and describing her heroic rescues. Chronicles the lives of women who lived and worked Women of the Lights By in lighthouses, braving seas and storms, rescuing Scaffolding Candace Fleming people from icy waters, and lovingly caring for their lights Keep the Lights Burning In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse Grade level Abbie by Peter Roop keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself.
Companion Texts: Provide a series of short companion texts that will supplement the extended text and provide students with a deeper understanding of the themes, motifs, or context of the extended text. 1-3 Short Informational Texts Text Title and Author A short description of the text and how it relates to the extended text Label Difficulty: Advanced Grade Level Meant for Scaffolding Safely to Shore: America’s Lighthouses by Iris VanRynbach The Bravest Woman in America by Marissa Moss Women of the Lights By Candace Fleming Keep the Lights Burning Abbie by Peter Roop Describes the purpose and history of lighthouses, how they work, who keeps them, and relates stories about famous American lighthouses. Tells the true story of Ida Lewis, explaining how she learned to tend a lighthouse from her father, discussing her responsibilities as the lighthouse keeper, and describing her heroic rescues. Chronicles the lives of women who lived and worked in lighthouses, braving seas and storms, rescuing people from icy waters, and lovingly caring for their lights In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself. Grade level Grade level Scaffolding Grade level
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