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Student Instructions
1. Read each page of the passage aloud when asked. 2. Answer the questions on the next pages. 3. Share a written answer and a recorded response to show your ideas. 4. Finish the quick poll to reflect on your reading.
Teacher Notes (not visible to students)
This activity uses a short historical passage about a boy named Charles in 1818. Students practice reading fluency, comprehension, and making connections between details and a character's dreams. The reading is split so teachers can listen to short oral readings and use Seesaw's fluency scoring as a guide. Review auto-generated fluency scores for accuracy and listen to recordings to confirm student progress. For the open-ended written question: a high-quality answer explains Charles's hopes (wants to be a farmer, imagines crossing the Blue Mountains, builds dams at the creek) and uses details from the passage. For the multimedia response: a strong video or voice answer describes one scene from the passage (for example, playing at the creek or dreaming about a farm) and connects it to Charles’s feelings. Teachers can mark answers correct/incorrect based on whether the student uses passage details and demonstrates understanding of Charles’s goals and emotions.
