Scott Foresman Reading Street

Cross-Curricular Centers

Scott Foresman Reading Street Centers Survival Kit
Use the Penguin Chick materials from the Reading Street
Centers Survival Kit to organize this week's centers.

MATERIALS
CD player, headphones,
AudioText CD, Student Edition

Listen to Penguin Chick and "Plants: Fitting into Their World" as you follow or read along in your book. Listen for the main ideas in these selections.

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
Penguin Chick

TEN IMPORTANT SENTENCES Read the Ten Important Sentences for Penguin Chick. Then locate the sentences in the Student Edition.

BOOK CLUB Look at "Meet Authors" on p. 417 of the Student Edition to help you set up an author study of Betty Tatham. Read other books by Tatham and share your favorites.

MATERIALS
Pencil, paper, markers,
index cards

Make a set of picture cards that matches lesson vocabulary words.

Write the boxed vocabulary words on index cards.
Draw pictures on other index cards that illustrate the meaning of each word. If you aren't sure of a meaning, use a dictionary.
Trade cards with your partner and see if you can match his or her cards with the correct pictures.


	moist frigid aquatic iceberg
	windswept hatch explore

EARLY FINISHERS Write sentences using the lesson vocabulary words that explain how each card illustrates a word's meaning.

MATERIALS
Writing and drawing
materials

Write a story about a penguin chick.

Use the following title or make up your own: "A Day in the Antarctic."
Write your story from a penguin chick's point of view.
Write in the first person, using words such as my, I, and me.
Use vivid words such as freezing instead of cold.
Include a beginning, middle, and end in your story.

EARLY FINISHERS Draw an illustration for your story.

MATERIALS
Books about animals,
Internet access, writing
and art materials

Research facts about animals that live near you.

Together, make a list of animals that live in your area.
Research facts about two or three of the animals.
Design a trading card that can list animal facts along with a picture of the animal.
Display your trading card in your classroom.

EARLY FINISHERS Write a list of animals that are not adapted to live in your area.

MATERIALS
Computer, printer, glue
or tape, scissors

Use a computer drawing program to draw the animals you have learned about.

Open a drawing program.
Use the paint or draw buttons to draw pictures of the animals you researched.
Print out your pictures.

EARLY FINISHERS Type and print out the facts about your animal. Glue or tape them to the back of your illustration for a computer-made trading card.