Candy Canes
Students read a nonfiction passage about the history of candy canes, written at 9 reading levels (kindergarten to 8th grade), and answer multiple-choice questions about it.
Student Objectives
- Read a nonfiction passage about how candy canes changed over time.
- Find details that tell what happened and why, such as how a machine made candy canes cheaper.
- Explain the meaning of the word legend using clues from the text.
- Describe how the author organizes the passage from a 1920s kitchen to Europe long ago and back to today.