Scott Foresman Reading Street

Unit 5

Wrap-Up

	Critically analyze unit theme.
	Connect content across selections.
	Combine content and skills in meaningful activities that build literacy.
	Respond to unit selections through a variety of modalities.

ADVENTURES BY LAND, AIR, AND WATER

Discuss the Big Idea

What makes an adventure?

Write the unit theme and Big Idea question on the board. Ask students to think about the selections they have read in the unit. Discuss how each selection and lesson concept can help them answer the Big Idea question from this unit.

Model this for students by choosing a selection and explaining how the selection and lesson concept address the Big Idea.

A Day in the Life

Write Postcards Tell students to review the selections in this unit and select one person or character who had an interesting adventure. Remind them to write their postcards using first-person point of view. Have students imagine themselves participating in the action of these adventures and share their own thoughts and feelings about what is happening.

You on the Map

Draw a Map Give students time to use online or print resources to get ideas and find information about where they might want to travel. Have them draw maps of the places they would like to visit. You might have students plan an expedition and show the travel routes they would use.

Ahead of Their Time

Write an Interview Have partners discuss the person they wish to "interview." Give students time to use online or print resources to gather information about this person. After collaborating on the questions, students should consider how the interviewee would answer each question based on the time and place in which he or she lived.

Suppose you are traveling with one of the people you read
about in this unit. Write two or three postcards home that
tell about an adventure you had with this person.

Suppose you could explore
anywhere in the world—or even out
of it! Draw a map of the places
you would go. Put in captions about
what might happen in each place.

Dear Mom and Dad, What a great place Antarctica is! Today we traveled by zodiac to Litchfield Island. We saw...

Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart were
women ahead of their time. Pick another real
person you know about who was ahead of
his or her own time. Imagine that you could
interview this person about his or her
adventures.With a partner, write the questions
you might ask and the answers this person
might give.



	Close
	4 3 2 1 Research is accurate and very detailed. Sources are reliable and relevant. Journal entries are informative and effectively use first-person point of view to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings. Research is generally accurate and detailed. Most sources are reliable and relevant. Journal entries are informative, but less effective in their use of firstperson point of view. Research includes inaccuracies, irrelevant information, or little detail. Some sources are unreliable. Journal entries include some facts and details, but point of view is inconsistent or parts are unclear. Research is not accurate, detailed, or relevant. Most sources are unreliable. Journal entries are incomplete, are unclear, or do not use first-person point of view.