Unit Plan

Common Lit: Duck & Cover: School Drills During the Cold War

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CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the definitions, choose to have the text read aloud, and have chosen text translated. This article discusses how schoolchildren prepared for a nuclear attack during the Cold War. [Free account registration required for specific tools.]

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CCSS: Designed
Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Practice
Common Core