Me and Uncle Romie
Below-Level Reader
A Walk Around
the City
Unit 5 Week 5
AUTHOR'S PURPOSE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
LESSON VOCABULARY cardboard, feast, fierce, flights, pitcher, ruined, stoops, treasure
SUMMARY This nonfiction book shows the many ways people live, work, and play in a city. It focuses on New York City, but it also encourages students to think about their city and its inhabitants.
INTRODUCE THE BOOK
BUILD BACKGROUND Discuss with students what different activities people can do in a city. Ask students how cities differ from rural environments. Ask students if they have ever visited New York City, read about it, or seen it in a movie or on television. If so, ask them what they remember about it.
PREVIEW/ILLUSTRATIONS Suggest that students scan the text, photos, and captions in the book. Ask students what clues they used to know this book is about modernday cities, not those from a century ago.
Ask English learners to talk about a city where they used to live or one they have visited. Then ask students to name differences or similarities between the cities they describe and New York City.
TEACH/REVIEW VOCABULARY Review the vocabulary words by asking students to define them verbally. Then ask students to use each word in a sentence to describe something in their own lives.
TARGET SKILL AND STRATEGY
AUTHOR'S PURPOSE Remind students that an author may write for different
purposes—to entertain, to persuade, to inform, or to express. Based on their previews, ask students what they think the author's purpose was for writing
A Walk Around the City.
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE Remind students that
prior knowledge gathered from other books or their personal experiences can help them understand a book. For example, students bring any experience they have with city life to their reading of this book.
READ THE BOOK
Use the following questions to support comprehension.
PAGE 4 Why do you think the author chose to write about New York City and not some other city? (because she lives there)
PAGE 6 Name three ways that people get around in a city. (walking, driving cars, taking a bus or subway)
PAGE 10 What are two generalizations about cities on this page? Which two words are clue words? (All cities offer things for people to do for fun. Usually, near the center of a city, you can find museums, zoos, and parks. Clue words are all and usually.)
TALK ABOUT THE BOOK
READER RESPONSE
| 1. Possible response: to inform readers about life in a city |
| 2. Responses will vary. |
| 3. the clue word business |
4. Possible response: The heads are main ideas about the topic of
the book (cities). |
RESPONSE OPTIONS
WRITING Ask students to write a paragraph about their favorite trip to a zoo, park, or museum. Suggest that they mention how they got there and why it was fun.
CONTENT CONNECTIONS
SOCIAL STUDIES Ask students to use the library and Internet to find out three details about a city they would like to visit someday. Suggest that they include the population of the city as one detail.
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