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Gold Fever

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Book meta-data
  • Reading Box: Silver (Levels 23-24)
  • Year: Three
  • Fiction/Nonfiction: Non-fiction
  • Theme/Topic: Change over time, Economics, History
  • Genre: Explanation, Report
  • Strategy/Skills: Making predictions, Drawing conclusions, Monitoring for meaning
  • Page Count: 32
  • Reading Level: 24
  • Item Code: 200238
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  • Curriculum Codes: ACELA1479, ACELA1484, ACELY1678, ACELY1679, ACELY1680
Reader Description

A place booms when something happens that brings many people to an area. In the 1890s, thousands of people travelled to the Klondike Valley to look for gold and a town called Dawson was built. But would the boom last?

After you have completed the Reader

The gold miners faced many challenges. Imagine you are a miner at the Klondike. Write a letter home to your family. Use the information in the book to describe the hardships you are facing. Read the letter to your family.

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