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Dear Teacher,Welcome back! Can you believe it’s already time to start a new school year? For me it’s also the start of a new job—as editor of Scholastic News Edition 4. I’m so excited to be working on this amazing magazine and look forward to a successful year of collaborating with dedicated teachers like you.

We’ve made some changes based on feedback we received from teachers around the country. And we think Scholastic News will be better than ever. Here are some of the highlights:

• The Teacher’s Guide has a new look. For each cover story, we’ll include a step-by-step lesson plan that targets a key reading skill, as well as close-reading questions that connect to the Common Core State Standards. We’ve also added Performance Tasks that are differentiated for higher- and lower-performing students.

• In the magazine, we’ve expanded our Debate to provide more reasons and evidence to support both sides of each argument. We’ll continue to provide an opinion-writing skills sheet online with each debate to help students hone this important skill.

• The box on the right highlights the features you’ll find online with each issue’s digital edition. If you haven’t visited our site before, or you forgot how to register, don’t worry. You’ll find easy-to-follow registration instructions on page T6 of this Teacher’s Guide.

We’re looking forward to another year of bringing kid-friendly coverage of current events into your classroom. And if you ever have any questions or comments, please feel free to e-mail me!

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RI.4.1 uExplainhowhotshotsfightwildfires.Citeevidence.Hotshots work to stop wildfires from spreading. They use tools like chain saws and shovels to remove anything that could fuel the flames. Some hotshots cut up trees and logs. Others then remove the wood and dig deep trenches around the fire. TexT evIDeNce

RI.4.8 uHowdoestheauthorsupporttheclaimthatthisyearhasbeenabadoneforwildfires?To support this claim, the author gives an example of the amount of land that fires have already burned in one state, Arizona. By mid-June, wildfires there had burned an area about the size of 90,000 football fields. ReASONS AND evIDeNce

RI.4.7 uHowdoestheinformationinthe“HotshotsbytheNumbers”sidebarcontributetoyourunderstandingofthetext?The information in the sidebar supports the idea that hotshots have a difficult, dangerous job. For example, it states that they work close to flames that can reach 1,500 degrees. That explains why Moore compares working near a wildfire to being on the surface of the sun. TexT FeATUReS

uIntroducethemagazine: Ask students how they keep up with current events. Browse Scholastic News and discuss the purposes of the different sections (cover story, news shorts, debate, etc.).

u Skimandpredict: Turn to the cover story on pages 4-5. Guide students to skim the text features and make a prediction about the focus of the article.

skill Focus (ri.4.2) identifying the Main idea

Objective: Students will identify the main idea of the cover story and explain the difference between a topic, a main idea, and a detail.

hook: Explain to students that people, even some adults, confuse three important terms: the topic of an article, its main idea, and the details. Then clarify what each one means.

Direct instruction: Use the definitions and examples below for each term.

• Topic: a subject covered in an article. It is usually a word or a phrase. An article may have more than one topic. One of the topics of the cover story is wildfires. Ask: “What is another topic included in the article?”

• Main idea: tells what the whole article is about. It is usually one sentence. One way to state the main idea of this article is: Wildfires are on the rise this year, and hotshots help put them out. Ask: “How is the main idea different from a topic?”

• Detail: a fact that supports the main idea. One detail is that a serious drought has been going on in western states like Arizona and California. Ask: “How does this detail support the main idea?”

Practice: Use page T4 of this guide to have students practice differentiating the cover story’s main idea, topics, and details.

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LessComplex: Using details from the article and the “Behind the Music” online feature, write one paragraph about what Francis Scott Key saw during the attack on Fort McHenry and the morning after the battle.

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Have students read about “The Star-Spangled Banner” on page 3. On page 3 of the digital edition, you’ll find a link to “Behind the Music,” which explains what the famous song means. Have students use both sources to complete one of the differentiated tasks below.

For each debate this school year, we’ll provide an opinion-writing skills sheet.

Visitwww.scholastic.com/sn4 to access the skills sheet for this issue’s debate. It will get your students to craft and share their opinions about a proposed law that would force kids to do chores!

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TeAcher’s GuiDe is That the Main idea?, p. T41. topic; This is a word, not a full sentence. It doesn’t tell me the author’s main point about hotshots.2. detail; This fact supports the idea that hotshots have a difficult job.3. main idea; This sentence tells me what the whole article is about.4. topic; This is a phrase, not a full sentence. It doesn’t tell me that there were many wildfires this year.5. detail; The whole article is not about Moore’s team. 6. detail; This tells me about one cause of wildfires, which isn’t what the whole article is about.

Broad stripes and Bright stars, p. T51. There is one stripe for each of the 15 states that were part of the U.S. at the time. 2. The storm flag was lost, and the other is on display in a museum.3. “O Say Can You See” focuses on the events leading up to the writing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The information on this page focuses on the flag that inspired the song.

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Is That the Main Idea?Read this week’s cover story. Label each statement or term below as a topic, main idea, or detail. Then explain why, using details from the text. (Hint: Only one of the statements is the main idea.)

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Broad Stripes and Bright StarsOn page 3 of this week’s issue, you read about America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Below you’ll find more information about the famous flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the words to that patriotic song. Read the article, and then answer the questions.

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Why does the American flag that Key wrote about look different than today’s flag?The flag had 15 stars and 15 stripes back then. They represented the original 13 states, plus two others that joined later. Since 1818, the American flag has had only 13 stripes and one star for each state.

Who made the flag that flew over Fort McHenry?Flagmaker Mary Pickersgill sewed the flag in the summer of 1813. She actually made two flags for the fort. One was huge, and the other was a smaller one to be flown in bad weather. This “storm flag” was eventually lost.

Which flag was flown during the battle?The British attack on Fort McHenry took place in a heavy rainstorm, so the smaller storm flag was flown during the night of the battle. At dawn, when an American victory became clear, the larger flag (above) was raised. The sight of that flag led Francis Scott Key to write the words that were later used for “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

How big is the huge flag that Key wrote about?Originally, the flag was 30 feet high by 42 feet long. Today, it’s only 34 feet long. Over the years, many pieces were cut from the flag, including one of the 15 stars. These pieces were given to people who wanted to keep them as mementos.

Where is that flag today?The flag is on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. In 1998, the museum carried out a major project to preserve the flag for generations to come.