Scott Foresman Reading Street

Cross-Curricular Centers

Scott Foresman Reading Street Centers Survival Kit
Use the Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest materials
from the Reading Street Centers Survival Kit
to organize this week's centers.

MATERIALS
CD player, headphones,
AudioText CD, Student Edition

Listen to Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest and "Great and Small" as you follow or read along in your book. Listen for comparisons in Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest.

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
Hottest, Coldest, Highest,
Deepest

TEN IMPORTANT SENTENCES
Read the Ten Important Sentences
for Hottest, Coldest, Highest,
Deepest. Then locate the
sentences in the Student Edition.

BOOK CLUB Hottest, Coldest,
Highest, Deepest is expository nonfiction. Find other examples
of expository nonfiction. Read
them and prepare a book talk to
share with a group.

MATERIALS
Writing materials, copies
of grade-appropriate
crossword puzzles

Make a crossword puzzle.

Arrange the words from the
word bank on a piece of
paper in crossword form.
Lay another piece of paper on
top and trace squares around
each letter, so that an empty crossword puzzle is made.
Number the first square of a
new word. Numbers will run
in order both Across and
Down.
Write a definition for each
word and arrange them into
Across and Down clues.
Give your crossword puzzle
to a partner to complete.

	heaviest	record	average
	measure	tidal	astonish

EARLY FINISHERS Try one of the crossword puzzles provided by your teacher. Work with someone if you get stuck.

MATERIALS
Writing and drawing materials,
index cards, Internet access

Write a postcard from a location mentioned in Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest.

Choose one of the locations mentioned in the selection
and imagine that you have
been to visit this place. Find
more information about it
on the Internet or in books.
Draw a quick sketch of the
place or a landmark there
on the blank side of an index
card.
On the other side, write a
short note on one half of the
index card telling what you
saw and did while there.
Write in the name of a
classmate on the other half
of the index card.

EARLY FINISHERS Imagine you
have returned from this place and
your teacher has asked you to tell
him/her about your vacation. Write
a short report about what you did
and saw.

MATERIALS
Paper and pen or pencil,
reference sources such as
almanacs and encyclopedias,
Internet access

Using traditional reference
sources such as almanacs and encyclopedias or the Internet, find answers to weather questions
about your home state.

Make a list of the information you want to know, such as highest temperature and lowest temperature, most rain or snow in one day, highest location, and so on.
Record the information you find.
Get together with a group and share your findings.

EARLY FINISHERS Write a brief
report of your findings.

MATERIALS
Computer

Use electronic reference sources to discover "mosts."

Open an interactive
encyclopedia or almanac
program.
Type your query, or what
you're looking for, in the
search field.
Remember to check
spelling before you hit
"enter." Check upper-
and lower-case letters
too.
Refine your search, if
necessary, with the
words and, and not. And
will give you results with
all the words in the
search field. Not will
exclude the words you
don't want.
Print out the information
that you want and keep
it all together.

EARLY FINISHERS Write a
short summary of your
research.