Bộ sách Scott Foresman reading street grade 5 advance teaching guides gồm các quyển sau: 5.1.1 This Is the Way We Go to School 5.1.2 Forecasting the Weather (Earth Science) 5.1.3 Harvesting Medicine on the Hill 5.1.4 African American Athletes (Social Studies) 5.1.5 The Land of Opportunity (Social Studies) 5.2.1 When the Disaster Is Over (Social Studies) 5.2.2 A Safe Heaven (Social Studies) 5.2.3 Making Friends in Mali 5.2.4 Saving Endangered Species (Life Science) 5.2.5 The National Guard Modern Minutemen (Social Studies) 5.3.1 The Patent Process (Social Studies) 5.3.2 The Inspiration of Art (Social Studies) 5.3.3 Whats New with Dinosaur Fossils (Life Science) 5.3.4 Music Gets the Blues (Social Studies) 5.3.5 Hollywood Special Effects (Social Studies) 5.4.1 Cheaper, Faster, Better Recent Technological Innovations (Social Studies) 5.4.2 Feel, Think, Move (Life Science) 5.4.3 A Home for Humans in Outer Space Is It Possible? (Space and Technology) 5.4.4 Nathaniel Comes to Town 5.4.5 What Makes Great Athletes? (Social Studies) 5.5.1 The Sandwich Brigade 5.5.2 Inventions from Space Travel (Space and Technology) 5.5.3 Astronauts and Cosmonauts (Space and Technology) 5.5.4 The Shaping of the Continents (Earth Science) 5.5.5 Journey to Statehood (Social Studies) 5.6.1 Oceans of Resources (Social Studies) 5.6.2 MixedUp Vegetables (Life Science) 5.6.3 From Salt to Silk Precious Goods (Social Studies) 5.6.4 Flying into the 21st Century 5.6.5 Unexpected Music (Social Studies)
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Opportunity
SUMMARY Many people left their homes
over-seas and came to the United States in the early
1900s They had dreams of making good money
and having a better life The road to a better life
was filled with hard times and disappointment
For most, the journey was worth the effort
LESSON VOCABULARY
barracks citizens
detainees emigrate
interpreter naturalized
steerage tenements
INTRODUCE THE BOOK
INTRODUCE THE TITLE AND AUTHOR Discuss
with students the title and the author of The
Land of Opportunity Based on the title, ask
students what kind of information they think
this book will provide Tell them that this is a
nonfiction book, and ask them to name other
nonfiction books they have read Discuss
elements of nonfiction
BUILD BACKGROUND Discuss with students what
challenges they think immigrants might have
experienced Have them think about a time
when they tried something new or difficult
Ask: Was the experience what you expected?
PREVIEW/USE TEXT FEATURES Ask students to
look at the photos in the book and read the
captions Draw their attention to the chart on
page 7 to show them the massive number of
people who immigrated to the U.S As a class,
summarize what students think the book will
teach them
READ THE BOOK
SET PURPOSE Have students set a purpose for
reading The Land of Opportunity Encourage
them to think about the causes and effects of immigration as they read
STRATEGY SUPPORT: SUMMARIZE Have students review the sentences they wrote that
summarize each section Then have them write a short summary of the book based on those sentences Ask students to evaluate whether they wrote a good summary of the main ideas
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
PAGE 4 Why did immigrants move to America?
(They wanted a better life, more money, freedom from their own governments.)
PAGE 7 Name some countries immigrants
came from initially (Italy, Hungary, Russia,
Germany, England, Canada, Ireland, Sweden)
PAGE 12 What was life like for immigrants?
(They had little money and lived in run-down, crowded tenements.)
PAGE 18 Make a general statement about
education for immigrant children (Most
immigrant children had a difficult time getting
an education because there were no schools in their homelands, and their parents didn’t want them to get an education in the United States.)
5.1.5
CAUSE AND EFFECT
SUMMARIZE
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Divide students into small groups Have each group choose a vocabulary word and write a sentence using that word Each group writes its sentence on the board, leaving a blank where the vocabulary word should go Have other groups guess which vocabulary word completes the sentence
Have students list vocabulary words and then write them in their home language
TARGET SKILL AND STRATEGY
CAUSE AND EFFECT Remind students that
cause tells why something happened and effect tells what happened As students
read, have them use a graphic organizer to list reasons why immigrants came to the United States and what happened as a result
SUMMARIZE Remind students that when
they summarize, they boil a story down to its
most important points As they read, have them write a sentence that summarizes each section Remind students that summarizing can often help them organize the main causes and effects in a story
ADDITIONAL SKILL INSTRUCTION
GENERALIZE Remind students that
sometimes when you read, you are given ideas about several things or people and you can make a statement about all of them together This statement is called
a generalization Valid generalizations are
accurate or true Have students look at the picture on page 6 and make a generalization about the immigrants’ voyage to America
REVISIT THE BOOK
READER RESPONSE
1 Cause: Many Americans on the West Coast
thought that the Chinese immigrants were
taking jobs away from them Effect: Many
Chinese immigrants were held at Angel
Island for a long time
2 Immigrants had to wait for one year They
also had to pass a test that asked them
questions about United States history and
how the government worked
3 Sample sentences: The family decided to
emigrate from Russia to the United States
What year did you immigrate to our country?
4 Responses will vary.
EXTEND UNDERSTANDING Ask students to look
at the photographs in this book and to explain
how the pictures help them better understand
the story
RESPONSE OPTIONS
WRITING Have students imagine that they are
an immigrant child Have them write a letter to
a friend or relative back home, listing things
they miss about their home country and things
they like about their new country
SOCIAL STUDIES
CONNECTION
Encourage students to
learn more about how
immigrants become citizens
today by finding a book or Internet article
about the subject Encourage them to find
samples of the test that immigrants must
take to become citizens How many of the
questions can the class answer correctly?
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Skill Work
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Trang 3Cause and Effect
• A cause tells why something happened.
• An effect tells what happened.
Directions Answer the following questions.
1 What caused many people to leave their homes and come to the United States?
2 What effect did immigration have on New York?
3 What caused immigrants to work so hard?
4 What caused immigrant neighborhoods to spring up in many major cities?
5 What effect did crowded, run-down tenements have on immigrants?
Directions Write whether the following are causes or effects of immigration.
6 Immigrants were poor in their home countries
7 So many people immigrated to New York that it became overcrowded _
8 Children were given a better education in America
9 America provided freedom from a harsh government
10 Immigrants heard that America was the land of opportunity
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Name
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Name
Vocabulary
Directions Write the vocabulary word that matches each defintion.
Check the Words You Know
barracks interpreter
citizens naturalized
detainees steerage
emigrate tenements
1 part of the ship occupied by passengers traveling at the
cheapest rate
4 buildings that are divided into sets of rooms occupied by
separate families
another
7 having been made a citizen of a country by an official act
8 group of buildings for people to live in, usually in a fort
or camp
Directions Write two sentences using at least two vocabulary words in each.
9.
10.
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