Learning by Sea and Land
Theme: The edieval World
Phonics Skill: r-Controlled Vowels: ear, wor-
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Phonics or Word Study Words: These words represent skills taught and modeled in instruction. Other previously taught decodable words are included in the book as review.
High-Frequency Words: These are irregular highly frequent words that do not follow regular spelling patterns at this stage in the sequence.
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1 Table of Contents Learning Now and Then . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Learning by Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Learning by Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Learning Now and Then
These days we learn by reading books.
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We also learn by searching on computers.
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Learning was not so easy for humans in the Middle Ages. To learn about pearls, earls, music, worms, or styles of teamwork, you couldn’t just type in a password and words to search on a computer. Computers didn’t exist!
So how did humans learn? Humans learned by roaming around the Earth!
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The Vikings were early explorers. They used teamwork to make boats.
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They worked and worked until the boats were seaworthy.
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Learning by Sea
The Vikings were worthy fighters. They attacked cities in Europe.
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When people heard their ships were near, they worried.
But the Vikings didn’t just attack. They also traded goods. They learned from others. Others learned from them.
What did they learn? They learned many things! They learned new words. They learned new ways to govern. They learned from worthy earls how to earn respect.
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Learning by Land
The Silk Road linked Europe, the Middle East, and China. Traders went back and forth on it. They worried about being attacked. So they traveled in units or groups.
They set up trading posts to earn a living. They bought and sold goods of worth, like pearls. They searched for new goods to buy and sell. It was a lot of work!
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The Silk Road
The Silk Road was a network of big and small roads.
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Egypt
Arabia
Europe
Persia
Marco Polo (1254–1324), a Silk Road Trader and Explorer
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India China North East West South
Traders learned and searched for new things. They heard new music.
Traders took new goods and all the things they learned back home. Knowledge spread to humans around the world.
cotton
spices
tea
silk
silver
wool
horses
gold
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Reflect on the ook
1. How did people find ot abot the news in the iddle Aes?
2. How is this different from how thins are today?
ild Knowlede
1. How did traders impact history?
2. How can the thins people by and sell chane the knowlede they have abot the world?
from, of, people, the, their, to, trader, was, were, what
knowlede, network, trader
Knowledge
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Phonics Words HighFrequency Words LWTears.com | 888.983.8409 Set C
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Words earls, early, earn, Earth, heard, learn, learned, learnin, network, password, pearls, search, searched, searchin, seaworthy, teamwork, words, work, worked, world, worms, worried, worth, worthy
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