Scott Foresman Reading Street

Reader Response

Open for Discussion Personal Response

MODEL The most important parts of the selection tell about the stages in the penguin's life, from when the egg is laid to when the chick is grown. Some details I might include are how long it takes the chick to hatch and how long it has to stay under its parents for warmth.

Comprehension Check Critical Response

Responses will vary; help
students with pronunciation and
fluency. Author's Purpose
Details: Both parents bring
back food for the chick to eat;
both parents brush the chick's
feathers.
Main Idea and Details
Responses will vary; look for
answers that explain how the
graphic organizers helped
students.
Use Graphic Organizers
Paragraphs will vary; words
students may use include
hatch, pecks, snuggles, and
cuddles.
Vocabulary

Look Back and Write For test practice, assign a 10–15 minute time limit. For assessment, see the Scoring Rubric at the right.

Retell

Have students retell Penguin Chick.

then… use the Retelling Cards and Scoring Rubric for Retelling on p. 169 to assist fluent retelling.

If… students have difficulty retelling the selection,

Check Retelling

Check Retelling Have students use illustrations and other text features to guide their retellings. Let students listen to other retellings before attempting their own. See the ELL and Transition Handbook.

Write Now

Look at the Prompt Explain that each sentence in the prompt has a purpose.

Sentence 1 presents a topic.
Sentence 2 suggests students think about the topic.
Sentence 3 tells what to
write—a summary.

Strategies to Develop Organization/Paragraphs

Have students

tell the main events in a story to a partner.
write the steps using time-order words.

NO: Mother penguin lays an egg.

The mother leaves. Dad takes

over.
YES: Mother penguin lays an egg.

Then she leaves. Now Dad takes

over.
For additional suggestions and rubric, see pp. 173g–173h.

Writer's Checklist

Focus Are only important
events included in the
summary?
Organization Are the events in
order? Do transitions, such as
then and after, show time order?
Support Do all sentences
describe events in the story?
Conventions Is the first line of
each paragraph indented?

Online Student Edition Snapshot Response with answer key (pdf)

Look Back and Write Look back at page 158. What surprising thing do the parent penguins do before the mother penguin leaves? Tell why you think they do it. Use information from the selection to write the answer.

Meet author Betty Tatham on page 417.

The author is like a reporter, telling you about the emperor penguins as if you and she were there in Antarctica. Look back at page 156. Read the page aloud as if you are an on-the-scene reporter. Think Like an Author

Look back at page 163. What details support the idea that the penguin father and mother take care of the chick? Main Idea and Details

Did you create a graphic organizer to help you as you read? If so, tell how it helped you. If not, what kind of graphic organizer could you have used? Tell why. Graphic Organizers

This story is about penguin chicks. If you wrote a paragraph about barnyard chicks, which words from the Words to Know list could you use? Try it. Vocabulary

Open for Discussion How would you retell the information in this selection to someone who doesn't know much about emperor penguins? What are the most important parts?

Reader Response

Prompt

Penguin Chick explains how penguins protect their eggs and their baby chicks.
Think about what happens as penguin chicks hatch and grow.
Now write a summary of Penguin Chick.

To help readers
remember events,
organize them in
time order and in
paragraphs.

Time-order
words help
readers
follow order
of events.

Use the model to help you write your own summary.

Summary’s
main ideas
are organized
into two
paragraphs.

Last
sentence
tells last
event in
time order.

Expository Retelling

Connections

Makes connections and generalizes beyond the text

Makes connections to other events, texts, or experiences

Makes a limited connection to another event, text, or experience

Makes no connection to another event,
text, or experience

Author's
Purpose

Elaborates on author's purpose

Tells author's purpose with some clarity

Makes some connection to author's purpose

Makes no connection to author's purpose

Topic

Describes the main topic

Identifies the main topic with some details early in retelling

Identifies the main topic

Retelling has no sense of topic

Important Ideas

Gives accurate information about events, steps, and ideas using details and key vocabulary

Gives accurate information about events, steps, and ideas with some detail and key vocabulary

Gives limited or inaccurate information about events, steps, and ideas

Gives no information about events, steps, and ideas

Conclusions

Draws conclusions and makes inferences to generalize beyond the text

Draws conclusions about the text

Is able to draw few conclusions about the text

Is unable to draw conclusions or make inferences about the text

Look Back and Write

Top-Score Response A top-score response will tell what surprising
thing the parent penguins do before the mother penguin leaves and will explain why students think this happens.

Example of a Top-Score Response The parents sing before the
mother leaves to find food. The mother will be gone for a long time.
The father has to stay warm and keep the egg warm. They want to raise
their chick together. Maybe they sing to tell each other they will be together again.

For additional rubrics, see p. WA10.

Retelling Plan

This week assess Strategic Intervention
students.
Week 2 Assess Advanced students.
Week 3 Assess Strategic Intervention students.
Week 4 Assess On-Level students.
Week 5 Assess any students you have not yet
checked during this unit.

Selection Test To assess with Penguin Chick, use Selection Tests, pp. 21–24.
Fresh Reads for Differentiated Test Practice For weekly leveled practice, use pp. 31–36.

Use the Retelling Chart on
p. TR17 to record retelling.