Scott Foresman Reading Street

Cross-Curricular Centers

Scott Foresman Reading Street Centers Survival Kit
Use the My Rows and Piles of Coins materials from the Reading
Street Centers Survival Kit to organize this week's centers.

MATERIALS
CD player, headphones,
AudioText CD, Student
Edition

Listen to My Rows and Piles of Coins and "Learning About Money" as you follow or read along in your book. Listen for clues that tell you about the characters in My Rows and Piles of Coins.

If there is anything you don't understand, you can listen again to any section.

MATERIALS
Collection of books for
self-selected reading,
reading log

Select a book you have already read. Record the title of the book in your reading log. You may want to read with a partner.

You may choose to read any of the following:

Leveled Readers
ELL Readers
Stories written by
classmates
Books from the library
My Rows and Piles of Coins

TEN IMPORTANT SENTENCES Read the Ten Important Sentences for My Rows and Piles of Coins. Then locate the sentences in the Student Edition.

BOOK CLUB Look at "Meet Illustrators" on p. 421 of the Student Edition to set up an illustrator study of E.B. Lewis. Read other books illustrated by Lewis and share your favorites.

MATERIALS
Copy of words, suffixes
and prefixes below, pencil,
paper

Build new words by adding prefixes and suffixes.

Match the prefixes and suffixes to base words to make new words.
Write seven new words.


	Prefixes:un-dis-


	Suffixes:-ly -ment


	proud wrapped
	astonish pleased
	dangerous loud
	narrow

EARLY FINISHERS Write a sentence for each new word.

MATERIALS
Paper, pencils

Saruni wanted to buy a bicycle so he could help his parents with their work. Can you think of something you or your family purchased that made a big difference in your life?

Write about an item you or someone in your family bought.
Describe how it made a difference for you.

EARLY FINISHERS Write a description of your life today if your family had not made the purchase.

MATERIALS
Writing materials

How would you save for an
important purchase?

Choose an item you would like to buy, such as a bicycle.
Write a plan that tells how you will earn and save money to pay for the item you choose.

EARLY FINISHERS Describe why the item holds value for you. Then explain how you will use the item.

MATERIALS
Computer, printer, art
materials, paper

Find pictures of money from around the world.

Use a search engine to find a Web site that shows pictures of money from different countries.
Print a picture of the money or draw and label it.

EARLY FINISHERS Type a list of different kinds of money from around the world.