Scott Foresman Reading Street

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Group Time

Leveled Reader
Do Animals Have a Sixth Sense?

REINFORCE CONCEPTS This week's concept is surviving natural disasters. A natural disaster is an event that takes place in nature that damages property and hurts or kills people.

BEFORE READING Using the Picture Walk Routine on p. DI•1, guide students through the text focusing on key concepts and vocabulary. Ask questions such as:

p. 3 What does the caption say? (Can snakes predict earthquakes?)

pp. 4–5 What does this illustration show? (a dog, a cat, a diagram of Earth's crust moving) It shows what happens during an earthquake. Some experts think animals sense an earthquake is coming.

Read pp. 3–4 aloud. Then do a choral reading of pp. 5–8. Have students read and discuss the book with a partner. Ask: How might animals help people predict a natural disaster? (Animals' behavior can warn people to leave the area.)

Preview Decodable Reader 15

BEFORE READING Review the words on Decodable Reader p. 113. Then have students blend these story words: amazing, wriggled, silence, single, liquid, combed, fuzzy, trudged, and wrestled. Be sure students understand the meanings of words such as liquid, combed (as in "combed the grass"), and trudged.

Use the Picture Walk Routine on p. DI•1 to guide students through the text.

Preteach Phonics

SILENT CONSONANTS Write lamb. Say the word slowly, breaking it into individual phonemes: /l/ /a/ /m/. How many sounds do you hear in the word lamb? (three) How many letters do you see? (four) Some words have silent letters. The b in lamb is silent. We don't say /l/ /a/ /m/ /b/; we say /l/ /a/ /m/. If a word doesn't sound right when you pronounce all the consonants, one of the consonants may be silent. Repeat with knit, wrap, sign, and castle. Blend and read each word and have students blend the words with you.