Read an Article and a Timeline Together

Have students preview the graphic before reading the article. For each answer, ask whether it came from the text, the graphic or both.

Read Taking to the Sky with a flight timeline from 1783 to 1970 and compare what each one gives. A timeline lists events in order with their dates, so it can add facts and dates that an article leaves out. The directions on the page read: Read the article. Then use it and the timeline on page 2 to answer the questions. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade comprehension exercises, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with text and graphics. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A graphic can add facts the words leave out. The bar graph in Read an Article and a Bar Graph Together shows the 1970 and 1980 recycling rates, which the article skips.

It shows where each place is. In Read an Article and a Map Together, the route map makes it clear how far the Corps traveled up the Missouri River to Fort Mandan.

It shows the inside of something. Read an Article and a Diagram Together labels a volcano's magma chamber, main vent, side vent and layers of lava and ash.