Scott Foresman Reading Street

For alternate Leveled Reader lesson plans that teach

Sequence, Summarize, and
Lesson Vocabulary, see pp. LR10–LR18.

What About Me?
Group Time

Retell Leveled Reader
Let’s Make a Trade!

Have students use illustrations and captions as a guide to summarize the important facts they learned from each section of the book. Prompt as needed.

Summarize how bartering could work in a school.
What steps does the community theater take to advertise?
How can bartering help families save money?

for Fluency

MODEL Read aloud p. 3 of the Leveled Reader
Let’s Make a Trade!, reading at an appropriate rate.
Have students notice how you pause for punctuation.
Discuss how you pause slightly longer at the ends of
sentences than for internal punctuation.

PRACTICE Have students reread passages from Let’s Make a Trade! with a partner or individually. For optimal fluency, they should reread three or four times. As students read, monitor fluency and provide corrective feedback. Students in this group are assessed in Week 3.

Revisit Leveled Reader
What’s Money All About?

RETELL Have students retell
the Leveled Reader What’s
Money All About?.

NOW TRY THIS Have students
complete their projects on how
coins have changed over the
years. You may wish to review
their sources and see whether
they need any additional supplies
or resources. Have them use
visual aids to present their
findings to the class.

for Fluency

PRACTICE Have students reread passages
from the Leveled Reader What’s Money All About?
with a partner or individually. As students read,
monitor fluency and provide corrective feedback.
If students read fluently on the first reading, they do
not need to reread three or four times. Students in
this group were assessed in Week 1.