Read Aloud G6

Grade 6

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS “Dangerous Rescues Are Part of Job for Coast Guard” by Zoltan Istvan from National Geographic News. Copyright © 2004 by National Geographic. Used by permission of National Geographic. Excerpt from THE SEARCH FOR LOST CITIES by Nicola Barber. Copyright © 1998 by Steck-Vaughn Company. Used by permission of Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers, an imprint of Steck-Vaughn Company. “Becky Schroeder: Enlightened Thinker” from BRAINSTORM!: THE STORIES OF TWENTY AMERICAN KID INVENTORS by Tom Tucker. Copyright © 1995 by Tom Tucker. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. “Remember the Bridge” from REMEMBER THE BRIDGE: POEMS OF A PEOPLE by Carole Boston Weatherford. Copyright © 2002 by Carole Boston Weatherford. Used by permission of Philomel Books, a division of Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. “Bringing Back Salmon” by Jeffrey Rich from Ranger Rick, October 2003. Copyright © 2003 by the National Wildlife Foundation. Used by permission of the National Wildlife Foundation. “Shortstop” from KNOTS IN MY YO-YO STRING: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A KID by Jerry Spinelli. Copyright © 1998 by Jerry Spinelli. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. “How Fisher Went to the Skyland: The Origin of the Big Dipper” from KEEPERS OF THE EARTH: NATIVE AMERICAN STORIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN by Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac. Copyright © 1988, 1989 by Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac. Used by permission of the author of this story, Joseph Bruchac.

“Helping Hands” from Current Health, February 2003. Copyright © 2003 by Weekly Reader Corporation. Used by permission of Weekly Reader Corporation. “The Magical Horse” from TONGUES OF JADE by Laurence Yep. Copyright © 1991 by Laurence Yep. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Excerpt from SLED DOGS: ARCTIC ATHLETES by Elizabeth Ring. Copyright © 1994 by Elizabeth Ring. Used by permission of The Millbrook Press. “Pecos Bill Invents the Lariat” was originally entitled “Pecos Bill Invents Modern Cowpunching” in PECOS BILL, THE GREATEST COWBOY OF ALL TIMES by James Cloyd Bowman. Copyright © 1937, 1964 by Albert Whitman & Company. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Albert Whitman & Company. “Notes on the Art of Poetry” by Dylan Thomas. Used by permission. “I Made a Perpetual Motion Machine” from A PIZZA THE SIZE OF THE SUN by Jack Prelutsky. Copyright © 1996 by Jack Prelutsky. Used by permission of Greenwillow/William Morrow. DIG THIS!: HOW ARCHEOLOGISTS UNCOVER OUR PAST by Michael Avi-Yonah. Copyright © 1993 by Runestone Press. Used by permission of Runestone Press/Lerner Publications Company. “Letter to the Media” by students of DeWitt Middle School. Copyright © 2005 by PBS. Used by permission of PBS. “No Barriers” from A SPECIAL STRENGTH by Michael Burgan. Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

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CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Unit 1 Dangerous Rescues Are Part of Job for Coast Guard

....... 9 Informational Nonfiction by Zoltan Istvan (for The Summer of the Swans)

The Search for Lost Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Informational Nonfiction by Nicola Barber (for Lost City: The Discovery of Machu Picchu)

Becky Schroeder, Enlightened Thinker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Nonfiction by Tom Tucker (for Gecko Glue, Cockroach Scouts, and Spider Silk Bridges)

Remember the Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 A poem by Carole Boston Wetherford (for The Magic Gourd )

Bringing Back Salmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Informational Nonfiction by Jeffrey Rich (for Interrupted Journey )

Unit 2 Shortstop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 A personal essay by Jerry Spinelli (for How Tia Lola Came to Visit Stay)

How Fisher Went to the Skyland: The Origin of the Big Dipper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 A legend/myth by Joseph Bruchac (for The Night of the Pomegranate)

Helping Hands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Nonfiction by Kathiann M. Kowalski (for Zoo Story)

The Magical Horse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 A fantasy by Laurence Yep (for Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter)

Sled Dogs: Arctic Athletes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Nonfiction by Elizabeth Ring (for The Great Serum Race)

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Unit 3 Pecos Bill Invents the Lariat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 A tall tale by James Cloyd Bowman (for Juan Verdades)

Notes on the Art of Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 A poem by Dylan Thomas (for Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street)

I Made a Perpetual Motion Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 A poem by Jack Prelutsky (for Building Green)

Search for the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Nonfiction by Michael Avi-Yonah (for The Emperor’s Silent Army )

Letter to the Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 A primary source letter by The Sixth Grade Life and Career Skills Class of DeWitt Middle School, Ithaca, NY (for The Case of the Phantom Poet )

Unit 4 No Barriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 A biography by Michael Burgan (for Seeing Things His Own Way)

Sea Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 A poem by Max Fatchen (for Exploring the Titanic)

Better Than Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Realistic fiction by Maria Testa (for Saving Grace)

The Riding Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Nonfiction by Barbara Hagen (for Major Taylor: Champion Cyclist )

The Sayings of Confucius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Nonfiction by Confucius (for A Single Shard )

Unit 5 Jump Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Nonfiction by Scott Ingram (for Breaking Through)

Clever Manka

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 A folk tale by Parker Fillmore (for Ta-Na-E-Ka)

Money: It’s a Necessity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Informational Nonfiction by Neale S. Godfrey (for Many Countries, One Currency )

Rock Hound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Informational Nonfiction by Kristin Baird Rattini (for Honus and Me)

Words Do Not Pay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Nonfiction speech by Chief Joseph (for Let It Shine: Rosa Parks)

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Unit 6 At the Medici Villa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Dramatic Monologue by the Virtual Renaissance Team (for Leonardo’s Horse)

Limericks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Poems by R. J. P. Hewison, X. J. Kennedy, and Reginald Buller (for LAFFF ) The Touch of Sense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 A poem by John Kitching (for These Walls Can Talk ) The People, Who Were They?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Autobiography by Jennifer Owings Dewey (for Breaking into Print )

Volcano! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Informational Nonfiction by Stephen James O’Meara (for The Dog of Pompeii )

Plays Recycling: Taming the Plastic Monster! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 (for Unit 1—Take Action )

The Case of the Uncooked Eggs

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(for Unit 2—Saving the Day )

A Visit from an Ancient Pharaoh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 (for Unit 3—Great Ideas )

Tennessee Tornado

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(for Unit 4 —Achievements )

Samantha Smith: Ambassador of Goodwill

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(for Unit 5—Turning Points )

A Steel Drivin’ Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 (for Unit 6 —Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow )

Think-Aloud Copying Masters

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Index by Genre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

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INTERACTIVE ANTHOLOGY with PLAYS Developing Listening Comprehension Read Alouds help to build students’ listening comprehension. This anthology offers selections from a variety of genres, including biography, fiction, folk tales, nonfiction, primary sources, songs, and poetry, to share with students. Instruction is provided with each selection to develop specific comprehension strategies. Students are asked to set a purpose for listening, as well as to determine the author’s purpose for writing. Using the instruction provided, each Read Aloud becomes an enjoyable, purposeful learning experience.

What Makes a Read Aloud Interactive? With each selection, Teacher Think Alouds are provided to help you model the use of comprehension strategies during reading. Using Think Alouds allows students to listen and to observe how a good reader uses strategies to get meaning from text. After reading, students are given the opportunity to apply the comprehension strategy. Students are asked to “think aloud” as they apply the strategy. By listening to a Student Think Aloud you can determine if the student is applying the comprehension strategy appropriately and with understanding. Think-Aloud Copying Masters included in the Read-Aloud Anthology provide sentence starters to help students “think aloud” about a strategy.  5IJOL"MPVE
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