Scott Foresman Reading Street

PEOPLE AND NATURE

Discuss the Big Idea

How are people and nature
connected?

Write the unit theme and Big Idea question on the board. Ask students to think about the selections they have read in the unit. Discuss how each selection and lesson concept can help them answer the Big Idea question from this unit.

Model this for students by choosing a selection and explaining how the selection and lesson concept address the Big Idea.

Unit 3

Wrap-Up

	Critically analyze unit theme.
	Connect content across selections.
	Combine content and skills in meaningful activities that build literacy.
	Respond to unit selections through a variety of modalities.

Dear Person

Write a Letter Students should

first choose what element, plant, or creature from nature they will portray in the letter. Suggest they choose something familiar that they have observed and know about.

Making Connections

Complete a Chart Some

students may have difficulty telling why the connection between the character and nature is important. Suggest students think about how both the character and nature benefit from the connection.

Nature Web

Make a Web of Connections

After the web is complete, have students analyze the connections. They should discover that most connections, or interactions, take place because they help in survival.

In Night Letters you read what different parts of nature might
say if they could write a letter to a human. Choose a plant,
an animal, or another part of nature around you. Make
notes with details about what it might hear, smell, taste, feel,
see, and say. Then use your notes to write a letter from that
animal, plant, or part of nature.

Pick out the most important character in each selection
from this unit. Then tell the part of nature that the character
connects to and how the two are connected. Continue a
chart like the one below.

elements of nature are connected.

chose, but still holds the end of the yarn. Take turns
passing the ball of yarn and telling ways that the

In this unit, you learned how people and parts of nature
connect to one another. In a group, assign an element of
nature to each person. Sit in a circle. The first person holds
a ball of yarn and tells how one other person in the circle is
important to the element of nature he/she represents. Then
the first person passes the ball of yarn to the person he/she