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Jet Delivers Books to Kids Overseas Lesson PlanJet Delivers Books to Kids Overseas Lesson Plan
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2nd - 6th
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English Language Arts
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2008
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Jet Delivers Books to Kids Overseas

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Students identify the function of organizations, then read a news article about an organization called Room to Read that is sending books to poor countries. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and vocabulary activity, then students read the news report and write their thoughts in their journal. Lesson includes interdisciplinary follow-up activities.

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community service, volunteering, charity

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charity, community service, english language arts

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  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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