(4/6 - 4/9) ELA Small Group Activity 1

describing a pattern of events

comparing different types of skates

presenting a problem then a solution

answer a question discussed previously

The first Roller Skates

Plimpton's "Trucks"

Clamp-on Roller Skates

Later Roller Skates

improve

show

test

use

"tried his trick"

"skate into a room"

"could not turn or easily stop"

"people could see them"

"The first roller skates were must different from those we used today" (paragraph 1)

"Over the next 100 years, many other people invented different types of roller skates" (paragraph 4)

"In the 1900s, people stopped wearing skates that they attached to their shoes" (paragraph 7)

"Today people enjoy rollerskating in traditional skates and in inline skates" (paragraph 8)