Scott Foresman Reading Street

Social Studies
in Reading

Examine features of narrative nonfiction.
Practice a test-taking strategy.
Compare and contrast across texts.

PREVIEW/USE TEXT FEATURES

Have students preview "Sharing a Dream," paying careful attention to
the photographs and captions.

Why do you think the author included photographs in this text? (The photographs bring the story to life; they help readers visualize the captain and his trip.)

Link to Social Studies

If students research using the Internet, suggest they begin with the keyword explorer or adventurer to find a person to research.

NARRATIVE NONFICTION

Use the sidebar on p. 536 to guide discussion.

Remind students narrative nonfiction tells about a real event or series of events.
Discuss how this text's photographs can help readers draw conclusions about Captain Bill that may not be stated in the text.

AudioText

Partner Reading,
537a

Writing

Grammar

Fluency

Adjectives and Articles, 537f

Review Word List, 537j

Draft and Revise, 537h

Spelling

Fluency and Language Arts

GUIDED PRACTICE Discuss how students can use the strategy to answer the following:

How did Captain Bill get school children involved in his voyage?

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE After students answer the questions, discuss how they found information.

How did Captain Bill feel about his voyage around the world? How can you tell?

Use the Strategy

Read the test question and decide if it is asking for information that might be found in a photograph.
Study the photographs and captions to find the answer to the test question.

USE PHOTOGRAPHS Often readers can use photographs and captions to answer test questions. Provide the following strategy.

Strategies
for Nonfiction

Point out that the photographs show real people involved in real situations. This is a clue that the author's purpose is to inform.

CONNECT TEXT TO TEXT

Reading Across Texts

Discuss similarities and differences between the journeys. On the chalkboard, draw a Venn diagram to organize students' ideas.

Writing Across Texts Ask students to write their responses in a paragraph and to include a topic sentence.

What’s your idea of an
adventure? For William Pinkney
(Captain Bill), it meant sailing
around the world alone. He wanted
to be the first African American
sailor to make this 27,000-mile
voyage. But he also wanted the
trip to be educational, not only for
himself, but for thousands of
schoolchildren in his hometown
of Chicago, Illinois.

Text Features

In narrative nonfiction
the author might describe
how the subject or
subjects felt as well as
what they saw and did.

Narrative nonfiction can
be a record of the true
experiences of a person
or several people.

Genre

Narrative
Nonfiction

by Linda Washington

Captain Bill describes his voyage.

Captain Bill left Boston Harbor
on August 5, 1990, in a 47-foot
sailboat named Commitment. He
planned to sail around the five
southern capes of the world: the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa); Cape Leeuwin (Australia); South West Cape (Tasmania); Stewart Island Cape (New Zealand); and Cape Horn (South America). Only three other Americans had made this trip.

Research another
adventurer who has
traveled across an ocean
for discovery or pleasure.
Share what you learn with
the class.

Link to Social Studies

A caption expands on
information in the text.

Photographs give a
glimpse of the man who
made the voyage.

Writing Across Texts Write two ways in which the journeys were alike and two ways in which they were different.

Compare and contrast the
journeys of the Madsen family
and William Pinkney.

Reading Across Texts

Thanks to support from
sponsors in business and other groups who wanted to help, students were able to use classroom computers to follow Mr. Pinkney’s
day-to-day progress and to ask him
questions and get answers. He, in
turn, asked students to help him
with math problems dealing with time, distance, and wind speed.
When Captain Bill stopped in ports
along the way, he introduced children
to the languages and customs of the
people he met there.
All was not perfect on this nearly two-year journey. Captain Bill faced storms, sickness, loneliness, and exhaustion. But four months after
rounding Cape Horn, he sailed back into Boston Harbor. He had made his dream come true.

The graphics help you decide that this text informs.

Author’s Purpose