Scott Foresman Reading Street

Talking Walls: Art for the People
Group Time

Leveled Reader A Different Drawing

REINFORCE CONCEPTS This week's concept is freedom of expression. People can express themselves, or show what they think or feel, by saying, doing, or writing something. How do you express yourself?

BEFORE READING Using the Picture Walk Routine on p. DI•1, guide students through the text focusing on key concepts and vocabulary. Ask questions such as:

p. 7 The girl in the pink sweater is Sue. How is Sue's drawing the same as the other drawings? How is it different? (Sue's drawing is a tree like the others, but it looks more real then the other trees.)

p. 12 What kinds of trees did Sue draw? (all kinds, even trees that look like an octopus and a monkey)

Read pp. 3–4 aloud. Then do a choral reading of pp. 5–8. Have students read and discuss the remainder of the book with a partner. Ask: We are free to express ourselves in many different ways. How do the students' tree drawings show this? (They are all different. Some look like real trees, and some don't.)

Preview Decodable Reader 28

BEFORE READING Review the words on Decodable Reader p. 97. Then have students blend these story words: earn, inventor, surrounded, creaked, alarmed, invisible, reverse, spoonful, gasped. Be sure students understand the meanings of words such as alarmed and reverse.

Use the Picture Walk Routine on p. DI•1 to guide students through the text.

Preteach Phonics

SYLLABLES -TION, -SION, -TURE. Tell students that there are some common word parts that appear in many different words. Write nation. How many syllables do you hear in nation? (two) What is the first syllable? (na) What is the second syllable? (tion) Which syllable have you seen in many other words? (tion) Model blending nation. Then have students blend nation with you. Repeat this process for the syllables -sion and -ture, using the words television and future.