Scott Foresman Reading Street

Cross-Curricular Centers

Scott Foresman Reading Street Centers Survival Kit
Use the America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle materials
from the Reading Street Centers Survival Kit to organize this
week's centers.

MATERIALS
CD player, headphones,
AudioText CD, Student Edition

Listen to America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle and "Women Athletes" as you follow or read along in your book. Listen for facts and opinions in America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle.

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
America's Champion
Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle

TEN IMPORTANT SENTENCES
Read the Ten Important Sentences
for America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle. Then locate the sentences in the Student Edition.

BOOK CLUB Write three questions
about Gertrude Ederle. Get
together with a group and
discuss each other's questions.
Together, compose a letter to the
author; ask him the questions you
could not answer in your group.

MATERIALS
Pen or pencil,
index cards, dictionary

Create flashcards to help you
learn words from the story.

Write the words from the box
on the blank side of index
cards, one word per card.
Write the meaning of the
word on the other side of the
card. Use a dictionary to look
up the words you do not
know.
Go through the cards one by
one, trying to remember the
meaning of each word. Check
the definition on the other
side of the card if you
get stuck.
Have a partner test you.

athletics	convinced	confident
famous	thrilling	hazardous

EARLY FINISHERS Write a short
paragraph using all the words.

MATERIALS
Pen or pencil, paper

Write an interview with
Gertrude Ederle.

Imagine you are a reporter
assigned to interview
Gertrude Ederle for your local newspaper. Think about what you would ask her and write at least five questions.
Referring to the selection and using your imagination if
necessary, write answers
you think Ederle may have
given for each question.
Compare your interview with
a classmate's. What
information did you include
that they did not? What
information did they
include that you did not?

EARLY FINISHERS Write a short summary of your interview in
paragraph form for the newspaper.

MATERIALS
Various reference sources
or Internet access, writing
and drawing materials

Learn about different kinds
of sports.

Research in the library or on
the Internet combined sports
like a triathlon or a decathlon.
First, find out how many such
combined sports events
there are.
Make a list of the different
events involved in each
sport. Consider how the
athletes must train and
prepare themselves.
Design a medal for one of the
combined sports. The medal
should tell about the sport.

EARLY FINISHERS Write a
summary of each combined
sport. Illustrate the summaries
if you like.

MATERIALS
Computer

Look on the Internet for facts about female athletes.

Find a Web site listing the
accomplishments of
different female athletes.
Click on the athletes' names
to read more about them.
Write some facts that
you learn.

EARLY FINISHERS Choose one
of the athletes you read about.
Write three questions you would
like to ask her.