Scott Foresman Reading Street Centers Survival Kit Use the Fly, Eagle, Fly! materials from the Reading Street Centers Survival Kit to organize this week's centers.
MATERIALS CD player, headphones, Audio CD, Student Edition
Listen to Fly, Eagle, Fly! and "Purple Coyote" as you follow or read along in your book. Listen for plot and theme in Fly, Eagle, Fly!
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
Fly, Eagle, Fly!
TEN IMPORTANT SENTENCES Read the Ten Important Sentences for Fly, Eagle, Fly! Then locate the sentences in the Student Edition.
BOOK CLUB Read some other folk tale or fantasy. Get together with a group and discuss your favorites.
MATERIALS Writing materials, dictionary, copies of grade appropriate crossword puzzles
Arrange the words from the word bank below 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. Use a dictionary if you do not know a word's meaning.
Give your crossword puzzle to a partner to complete.
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EARLY FINISHERS Try one of the crossword puzzles provided by your teacher. Work with someone if you get stuck.
MATERIALS Writing and drawing materials, newspaper articles
Write an article about eagles.
Reread Fly, Eagle, Fly! and make some notes about the events in the story. What happened? Why? Who was involved?
Rewrite the folk tale as a newspaper article. Look at some examples of real newspaper articles to get an idea of how to write an article.
Share your article with a group.
EARLY FINISHERS Write a definition for the journalism term human interest story.
MATERIALS Copy of an empty Venn diagram, pen or pencil, reference sources, Internet access
Compare eagles and chickens.
Reread Fly, Eagle, Fly! and make some notes about some of the similarities and differences between eagles and chickens.
Using a reference source, such as an encyclopedia, or the Internet, find out more about each bird.
Fill in the Venn diagram with facts about eagles and chickens.
Display your Venn diagram in the classroom.
EARLY FINISHERS Write a brief report summarizing the differences between eagles and chickens.
MATERIALS Computer
Use a graphics program to make a Venn diagram.
Open graphics software on your computer by double-clicking on the icon on the desktop.
Use the circle or ellipses tool to create two circles that overlap, as you have seen in Venn diagrams.
Use the text tool to insert a title and data in each field of the diagram. Use the information from the diagram you created in the Science activity or some other comparison.
Save and print your Venn diagram.
EARLY FINISHERS Experiment with fonts and colors in the program. Try changing the font of the text and the colors of the text and circles.
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