Scott Foresman Reading Street

GUIDED PRACTICE Have students discuss how they would use the strategy to answer the following question.

Look at p. 38. What information is shown in the photo and the caption?

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE After students answer the following test question, discuss the process they used to find information.

What does the caption that goes with the map on p. 40 tell you?

Use the Strategy

Read the test question and locate a key word or phrase.
Scan the selection for the key word or phrase in a caption, or for a photo or map that matches a key word or phrase.
Check to see if the photos, maps, and captions convey relevant information.
When you find a match, use the photo, map, or caption to find an answer to the test question.

Strategies
for Nonfiction

USE PHOTOS/MAPS Explain to students that expository nonfiction about real people often includes actual photos (and other visual aids such as maps) that go along with the text. Photos and maps—and their captions—usually contain additional information that supplements the text. Have students examine the photos and the map. Have them read the captions too. Tell them that they may be asked to use photos, maps, and captions to answer test questions. Provide the following strategy.

Have students identify specific features of the map.

Extend Language Direct students' attention to the phrase "International Convention" in the first sentence on
p. 41. Spanish speakers may be interested to learn that internacional is the Spanish-language cognate for the English word international. Then point out that convención is the
Spanish-language cognate for the English word convention. Help
Spanish-speaking students use their knowledge of cognates to find the meaning of other words that end in
-ión in Spanish and -ion in English.

CONNECT TEXT TO TEXT

Reading Across Texts

Make sure students understand
that a "gogetter" is a self-motivated person who looks forward to facing challenges. Students should note that both Amanda and Mike do not wait for things to happen to them. Instead, they seize the initiative and implement their ideas through hard work.

Writing Across Texts Before students prepare their charts or diagrams, you may wish to have students brainstorm in order to list the qualities possessed by each character. Then have students narrow down the list to show qualities both characters have in common.

     Recently, Mike was the
T-shirt coordinator for a
Jack and Jill International
Convention. Jack and Jill is a
community service organization
for African American youth. Mike
was in charge of making sure
that 3,000 T-shirts were printed.
     Mike makes about $2,000
each year from his Teaching
T-shirts. All of the money goes
into his savings for college.
     To Mike, school comes first.
“I don’t get too involved in
my business when it has any
chance of interfering with
schoolwork. That’s the most
important thing for any kid to
be involved in.”

Writing Across Texts Make
a chart or a Venn diagram
to show the qualities both
characters have in common.

Reading Across Texts

Both Mike in this article and
Amanda in Boom Town are
“go-getters.” Explain why.

Prior Knowledge

What prior knowledge helped you read the map?



	Close
	Test Practice Write the Guided Practice question on the board. Work with students to identify and underline the key words in the question. Key words include: look, information, photo, and caption.