Scott Foresman Reading Street

	Build vocabulary by finding words related to the lesson concept.
	Listen for facts and opinions.

magnificent something wonderful; grand; splendid

propellers metal blades that turn rapidly on a shaft, making boats and aircraft move

suspended hanging

then… review the lesson concept. Place the words on the web and provide additional words for practice, such as wicker and spewed.

If… students are unable to place words on the web,

Check Vocabulary

Whole Group
Introduce and discuss the Question of the Week. Then use pp. 86l–88b.

Group Time

Reading

Differentiated Instruction

this week's Leveled Readers. See pp. 86f–86g for
the small group lesson plan.

Whole Group
Use p. 111a.

Language Arts
Use pp. 111e–111h and
111k–111m.

Grouping Options

Set Purpose

Have students listen for facts and opinions as you read.

Creative Response

Have students work with partners to take turns pantomiming words from the concept vocabulary web. Drama

Activate Prior Knowledge Before students listen to the Read Aloud, have them share what they know about Neil Armstrong and the first trip(s) to the moon.

Access Content Before reading, tell students they will hear a short biography of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.

Homework Send home this
week's Family Times newsletter.

Build Concepts

FLUENCY

MODEL APPROPRIATE PHRASING As you read "One Giant Leap: The Story of

Neil Armstrong," pay special attention to groups of words. Be sure to read
groups of words as appropriate phrases. For example, when you read the
second paragraph, pause slightly at each comma, and read the words
between commas as one phrase.

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

After reading "One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong," use the following
questions to assess listening comprehension.

Find one fact and one opinion in the selection. (Fact: Neil and his father
climbed aboard and buckled themselves into wicker seats; Opinion:
Stephen Armstrong was worried.) Fact and Opinion
What do you think Neil Armstrong felt when he first stepped on the
moon? (Possible responses: Accept any response that is appropriate.)
Draw Conclusions

BUILD CONCEPT VOCABULARY

Start a web to build concepts and vocabulary related to this week's lesson and
the unit theme.

Draw a Being First Concept Web.
Read the sentence with the word propellers again. Ask students to pronounce
propellers and discuss its meaning.
Place propellers in an oval attached to Equipment. Explain that propellers is
related to this concept. Read the sentences in which suspended and magnificent
appear. Have students pronounce the words, place them on the web, and
provide reasons.
Brainstorm additional words and categories for the web. Keep the web on display
and add words throughout the week.

In 1932, two-year-old Neil Armstrong watched airplanes race.

Small, brightly colored planes flashed over Neil and his father, Stephen. The
planes raced around a triangle-shaped course, their propellers tearing the sky
with a sound that was like an endless thunderclap.

The spectacle surely left its mark on young Neil. Four years later, he leaped at
the chance to ride in an airplane.

It wasn't on a racing plane but a three-motored passenger plane nicknamed the
Tin Goose. The plane offered rides at the town airport. It could carry about a
dozen people.

Neil and his father climbed aboard and buckled themselves into wicker seats.
The engines sputtered to life with a terrific noise. The airplane raced down the
runway and slowly lifted into the sky.

As the ground dropped farther and farther below them, people, houses, cars,
everything looked smaller. The Tin Goose plowed through the clouds as gusts of
wind bounced it up and down.

The noisy, bumpy ride and ever-tilting view worried Stephen Armstrong.

But Neil was fearless.

Neil was delighted.

Neil started making ten-cent airplane models and reading flying magazines.

He also started having a magical dream. In it, he held his breath and hovered
above the ground. Below him, people, houses, cars, everything looked smaller.

On clear nights, Neil climbed to the roof of his neighbor Jacob Zint's garage.
Mr. Zint had a homemade telescope mounted there and welcomed visitors to
spy the moon and stars.

Neil looked and looked and looked.

Neil Armstrong earned his student pilot's license on his sixteenth birthday. He
was too young to have an automobile driver's license.

In time, Neil Armstrong, student pilot, became Neil Armstrong, navy fighter pilot in the Korean War. Then he was Neil Armstrong, test pilot, flying rocketpowered airplanes to the upper edges of the sky. Eventually he became Neil Armstrong, astronaut.

Astronauts are special pilots who fly spacecraft around Earth. When Neil
became an astronaut there was a plan to land people on the moon and
then return them safely to Earth. The moon had gripped people's
imagination for thousands of years.

continued on TR1

by Don Brown

One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong