Scott Foresman Reading Street

Reader Response

Open for Discussion Personal Response

MODEL I'd start by telling who Hiram Bingham is and what he wants to find. I'd use vivid details, such as the tangled jungle thickets, to help the audience visualize the scenery at Machu Picchu.

Comprehension Check Critical Response

Setting is important to this story. The scenery in the Andes, with its mountains and cliffs, is also big and bold; he tries to capture this idea. Author's Purpose
He was tall and carried a small black box. Compare and Contrast
Possible response: I feel sweaty and breathless from the steep climb. I hear the boy whispering and smell the burnt vegetation and jungle plants. Visualize
Webs should include details and vocabulary describing the ruins.
Vocabulary

Look Back and Write For test practice, assign a 10-15 minute time limit. For assessment, see the rubric on TR25.

Summarize

Have students summarize the selection using their completed webs about archaeologists or other graphic organizers they created as they read the selection.

Retell

Have students retell Lost City.

then… use the Scoring Rubric for Retelling below to help move them toward fluent retelling.

If… students have difficulty retelling the selection,

Check Retelling

Summarize Suppose someone planning to visit Machu Picchu has asked you about it. Summarize what you have learned from the selection in four or five sentences.

Check Retelling Using the first two pages of the selection, model retelling events in sequential order. Encourage students to use the illustrations to guide their retellings. For more ideas on assessing students' retellings, see the ELL and Transition Handbook.

Students can search the Internet to find out more about the author/illustrator Ted Lewin using the keywords Ted Lewin.

Online Student Edition Snapshot Response with answer key (pdf)

Look Back and Write What is the mystery of the Incan
stone walls? Look back at pages 544-545 and then write
what the mystery is.

The illustrations in this selection are big and bold, and cover two pages. Why do you think Ted Lewin used this illustration style?

In what ways was Hiram Bingham like the stranger in the boy's dream?

The author describes the moment Hiram Bingham first sees Machu Picchu. Visualize as you reread that part of the selection. Describe what you see, hear, smell, and feel.

Snowcapped peaks, sleepy old village, and sun-warmed stones are phrases that describe what Hiram Bingham saw. Make a web. Write Machu Picchu in the center. Around it, write descriptive phrases you find in the selection. Include words from the Words to Know list.

Open for Discussion Be a "you-are-there" reporter. Tell about Hiram Bingham's search for the lost city as if you were there. Use the illustrations to help make your report exciting.

Reader Response

Read more
books by
Ted Lewin.

Ted Lewin loves to travel. He writes and
illustrates books about his trips. For Lost City,
he hiked the jungle trail to Machu Picchu in Peru.
He has also photographed gorillas in Uganda and
rhinos in Nepal. He has watched a tiger from an
elephant's back in India. And he has been much
too close to grizzly bears, rattlesnakes, and bison.
When he travels, Mr. Lewin uses a journal,
a sketch book, photographs, and recordings to
help him remember what he sees. His wife,
Betsy, comes with him. She is also an artist,
and they sometimes write books together.

Gorilla Walk by Ted
and Betsy Lewin

two parents, a lion, an
iguana, a chimpanzee,
and an assortment of
more conventional pets."
The lion stayed only a
short time—his mother
donated it to the Buffalo
Zoo.

Mr. Lewin grew up in Buffalo, New York,
where he says he had "two brothers, one sister,