HomeMy WebLinkAboutRead Aloud Book Gr. K-Lesson 20One of the greatest journeys ever taken was a trip by Ferdinand Magellan.
He tried to sail all the way around the world.
Today we know that the world—our Earth—is round like a ball. We know
that if you start in one place and keep moving in the same direction, you can
go all the way around the world. You can end your trip right where you began
it! But hundreds of years ago, some people thought the world was fl at like a
plate. Those people thought that if Magellan sailed too far across the world,
he would fall right off the edge! But they were wrong.
In 1519, Magellan began his journey in a country called Spain. Spain had
a king named Charles. King Charles wanted Magellan to sail west to a place
called the Spice Islands. Magellan took fi ve boats with him and many men to sail
those boats. They sailed west. It was Magellan’s job to tell the men how to sail
across the oceans. This was a hard job. Sometimes the boats got lost.
There was also bad weather. The weather was at its worst when Magellan
sailed around the bottom tip of South America. One of his boats sank. Men
on another boat got scared and went back to Spain. But Magellan kept
going. Next, he sailed across the Pacifi c Ocean. For about one hundred days,
Magellan’s boats were far away from land and people. The sailors started to
run out of food and water. But then they made it to land and got more food
and water.
Magellan could not fi nish the trip around the world. But the sailors of one of
his boats made it to the Spice Islands and then sailed home to Spain. They had
fi nished the fi rst journey around the world!
COMPREHENSION What words about travel help you understand
Ferdinand Magellan’s trip around the world? What made Magellan’s
journey hard?
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Tom and Jae are best friends. They play lots of games together. But most of
all, they like to play pirates.
Once, when Tom and Jae were playing pirates, they decided to explore
for real buried treasure. Soon after the boys started digging, Jae’s dog,
Milo, came to help. Milo began digging so wildly that the boys thought he
must have buried a bone there. Bones were buried all around the yard, and
whenever Milo started digging like this, he always found one. But not this time!
Before long, the boys realized that Milo had found something better than a
bone.
“Look!” exclaimed Tom. “That’s not a bone!” Milo had dug up a box. Tom
picked it up. The box was made of brown leather with gold trim. There was a
tiny padlock on the front. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Tom.
“It must be real treasure!” said Jae.
The boys raced into the house and asked Jae’s mom for help. “I have a
special key that might open it,” she said.
Jae tried the key and the padlock opened! The boys opened the lid slowly,
imagining the beautiful gems and gold coins they would fi nd inside. But all they
saw was an old newspaper, a dollar bill, and a doll. They were disappointed.
“What’s this?” asked Tom. “This isn’t buried treasure.”
“Yes it is,” Jae’s mother explained. “It’s just a different kind of treasure.
It’s a time capsule. Someone must have buried it years ago. To make a time
capsule, people put things from a certain time period into a container. Then
they bury it so other people can fi nd it later and learn about what things were
like during that time.”
“Wow,” said Tom. “That’s neat!”
“Yeah,” said Jae. “Let’s add some things to this time capsule and make our
own buried treasure!”
COMPREHENSION Which words tell about how often things happen?
What makes the boys’ discovery so exciting?
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