Scott Foresman Reading Street

Cross-Curricular Centers

Scott Foresman Reading Street Centers Survival Kit
Use the Good-Bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong materials
from the Reading Street Centers Survival Kit
to organize this week's centers.

MATERIALS
CD player, headphones,
AudioText CD, Student Edition

Listen to Good-Bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong and "It's a Small World" as you follow or read along in your book. Listen for the sequence of events that occurs in Good-Bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong.

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
Good-Bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong

TEN IMPORTANT SENTENCES
Read the Ten Important Sentences
for Good-Bye, 382 Shin Dang
Dong. Then locate the sentences
in the Student Edition.

BOOK CLUB Set up an "Illustrator
Study" of Yangsook Choi. Read
other books by Choi and discuss
how her art fits the stories
she writes.

MATERIALS
Squares of blank paper,
copy of boxed words below, pennies,
pencil, lined paper

Find words with the vowel sound in the word ball on the game board.

Divide a square of paper into three columns and three rows.
Randomly write one of the words below in each game board square.
Take turns placing a penny on a word that has the vowel sound in ball.
When you have three pennies in a row, identify each word, and use it in a sentence.


August	faithful	harbor
halfway	awful	allow
already	walker	faucet

EARLY FINISHERS List other words that have the vowel sound in ball and write a sentence for each.

MATERIALS
Paper, pencil or pen

Write a letter to Jangmi.

Recall that Jangmi does not want to move to America. How would you convince her that she might like living in your town?
Write a letter to persuade Jangmi to look forward to her move.

EARLY FINISHERS Write a letter from Jangmi responding to what you wrote.

MATERIALS
Globe, string, tape, Internet
access, world atlases

Jangmi's family moved to Brighton, a town near Boston. To get to Boston, Jangmi and her family changed planes twice.

Use a search engine or refer to a world atlas to find a good route between Seoul and Boston.
Tape a string to the globe connecting Seoul, the two cities Jangmi stopped in, and Boston.
Write a few sentences telling why you chose that route.

EARLY FINISHERS Use the Internet or world atlas to find the number of miles per flight that a passenger would travel by plane between each of the cities on this route. Then total the miles.

MATERIALS
Computer, paper, pencil or
pen

Use electronic reference sources to find out more about South Korea and Boston.

Open an interactive encyclopedia or almanac program by double-clicking on the icon on the desktop.
Type your question, or what you're looking for, in the search field.
Remember to check your spelling before you hit the "enter" key. Check that you have used capital and lowercase letters correctly too.
Refine your search, if necessary, with the words and, or, and not. And will give you results with all the words in the search field. Or will give you one or all words, and 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 about your research and what you found.