Children will read about streams in the sky and ocean such as the Gulf Stream and Alberta Clippers along with their impact on weather and climate. Follow-up activities include the higher-order comprehension skill of application. Ideas for technology integration, art projects, and social studies/geography are suggested. This WAP is available on the primary and intermediate levels and correlates with the IRA/NCTE Standard, “Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).”
