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Comprehension Genre Realistic Fiction is a made-up story that could MAIN SELECTION have happened in real life. • The Raft • Skill: Character, Setting, Plot Make Inferences and Analyze PAIRED SELECTION Character, Setting, Plot • “Into the Swamp” As you read, fill in your • Text Feature: Map Setting Flow Chart. SMALL GROUP OPTIONS ASbbW\U 3dS\b 1VO`OQbS`¸a • Differentiated Instruction, @SOQbW]\ pp. 143M–143V 3dS\b 1VO`OQbS`¸a @SOQbW]\ 3dS\b 1VO`OQbS`¸a @SOQbW]\ Read to Find Out What was it that turned Comprehension Nicky’s summer around? GENRE: REALISTIC FICTION Have a student read the definition of Realistic Fiction on Student Book page 112. Students should look for characters whose behaviors are true-to-life and events that could actually happen. STRATEGY 112 MAKE INFERENCES AND ANALYZE Tell students that two ways they can analyze what they read are by comparing their own life experiences D]QOPcZO`g to those of the characters and by drawing conclusions about the way the Vocabulary Words Review the tested vocabulary words: setting affects the plot. scattered, cluttered, disgusted, downstream, raft, and nuzzle. SKILL Story Words Students may be unfamiliar with these words. CHARACTER, SETTING, PLOT Pronounce the words and give meanings as necessary. Explain that the setting of a story tackle box (p. 116): a container that holds fishing supplies may affect what happens in the plot. snorkel (p. 116): a mask with a curved breathing tube worn for The setting may also affect what the looking just under the surface of the water characters do and say. bobber (p. 118): a fishing float cattails (p. 129): tall, thin plants with brown, fuzzy flowers otter (p. 129): a furry animal that lives in or near water 112 Main Selection THE Main Selection Student pages 112–113 RAFT Preview and Predict Ask students to read the title, preview BY JIm LAMArCHE the illustrations, and make predictions about the selection. In what kind of surroundings does this story take place? Have students write about their “T predictions and anything else they here’s nobody to want to know about the story. play with,” I complained. “She doesn’t even have a TV.” Dad grinned. “Well, she’s not Set Purposes your normal kind of grandma, FOCUS QUESTION Discuss the “Read I guess,” he said. “Calls herself to Find Out” question on Student a river rat.” He chuckled. “But Book page 112. Remind students to I promise, she’ll fi nd plenty for look for the answer as they read. you to do. And you know I can’t take you with me this summer, Point out the Setting Flow Chart in the Nicky. Th ere’ll be no kids there, Student Book and on Practice Book and I’ll be spending all my time page 31. Explain that students will fill it at the plant.” in as they read. I felt tears starting again, but I blinked hard and looked out the window. Read The Raft Use the questions and Think Alouds to support instruction about the comprehension strategy and skill. 113 On Level Practice Book 0, page 31 As you read The Raft, fill in the Setting Flow Chart. Setting Grandma’s home is in the country, near a river. If your students need support If your students can read the to read the Main Selection, Main Selection independently, Event Character’s Reaction use the prompts to guide have them read and complete Nicky discovers an Nicky is curious and unusual raft. excited. comprehension and model the graphic organizer. Suggest how to complete the graphic that they use their purposes to organizer. Encourage students choose their reading strategies. Event Character’s Reaction to read aloud. The birds and animals are He decides to sketch the not afraid of Nicky. birds and animals. If your students need alternate selections, choose the Leveled Readers that match their instructional levels. Event Character’s Reaction Nicky rescues a fawn Nicky draws the fawn. He from the mud. is now part of the river. 27=1 C 2 / How does the information you wrote in the Setting Flow Chart help BSQV\]Z]Ug you to analyze and make inferences about The Raft? Story available on Listening Library Audio CD Approaching Practice Book, A, page 31 Beyond Practice Book B, page 31 The Raft 113 1 Th at aft ernoon, I stood in Grandma’s yard and watched my dad drive away. Dust rose up Main Selection Student page 114 2 behind our car as it disappeared into the pines. “Well, we can’t stand here all summer,” said Grandma. “C’mon, Nicky, it’s time for supper.” Develop “Honey or maple syrup on your cornbread?” Grandma asked. Comprehension “I don’t like cornbread,” I mumbled, poking my fi nger into the syrup pitcher when she 1 STRATEGY wasn’t looking. MAKE INFERENCES AND ANALYZE “If you’re going to do that, you’d better wash Teacher Think Aloud I can see in 3 up fi rst,” she said. She had eyes in the back of her the pictures that Nicky is unhappy. head. “Bathroom’s through there.” His father admits that Grandma is unusual and that she calls herself a river rat. This doesn’t seem to make Nicky feel any better, because he was fighting back tears in the car. I don’t think anything his father said has made much difference to the way Nicky feels. Character, Setting How do you think Nicky feels 2 SETTING 4 about spending the summer with his grandmother? What can you tell so far about the place where Grandma lives? (Nicky’s father called her a “river rat,” and the title of the story is The Raft, so she must live near a river. Also, the car 5 kicks up dust as it drives away, so she either lives on a dirt road or has 114 a dirt driveway. There are pine trees around her house. She must live in the country.) Add this information to the setting box of your Setting Flow Chart. &-- Setting Grandma’s home in the country, near a STRATEGIES FOR EXTRA SUPPORT river Question 2 SETTING Help students use the illustrations and text on pages 113–115 to figure out where the boy is going and where his grandmother lives. Point out the city landscape behind the boy in the car. Help students describe the other illustrations and express their ideas: I see lots of pine trees, so I think she lives in a forest. I don’t see any sidewalks, so she probably lives in the country. Prompt with questions as needed. 114 Main Selection Student page 115 Develop Comprehension 3 IDIOM What does Nicky mean when he says, “She had eyes in the back of her head”? (Even though it seemed as if she wasn’t watching him poke his finger into the syrup pitcher, she knew he was doing it.) 4 SETTING How do you think Nicky feels about spending the summer with his grandmother? (He doesn’t want to spend the summer with her. He says that he will be bored because he won’t have anyone to play with or any television to watch.) 5 USE ILLUSTRATIONS Nicky’s father says that Grandma is “not your normal kind of grandma.” 115 What information can you find in the illustration to show that this might be true? (Suggested answer: She is dressed casually in jeans and holds a big brimmed hat. Her apron, jeans, and arm have colored stains on them, and there are paint brushes in her pocket. Monitor and Clarify: Read Ahead She might be an artist. The birds and Explain Tell students that, if something seems unclear in a story, squirrels are not afraid of her. One bird they can read ahead to find out more information. Learning more even sits on her shoulder.) can be the key to understanding the plot or a character. Discuss Have students infer why Grandma calls herself a river rat. (Answers will vary, but students might read ahead to page 116 and note that Grandma’s living room is filled with river-related objects.) Apply When they’ve completed the story, encourage students to share how reading ahead helped them identify why Grandma calls herself a river rat. The Raft 115 I pushed the doorway curtain aside and walked into what would have been Student page 116 Main Selection a living room in anyone else’s house. Books were scattered everywhere—on the tables, on the chairs, even on the Develop fl oor. Th ree of the walls were cluttered 6 with sketches and stuff ed fi sh and charts of the river. Several fi shing poles hung Comprehension from the fourth with a tackle box, a snorkel, and a mask on the 6 STRATEGY CONTEXT CLUES fl oor beneath them. It looked like a river rat’s workroom, all What paragraph clues help you find 7 right, except that in the middle the meaning of charts? (Suggested of everything was a half-fi nished answer: The narrator says that the walls carving of a bear. were cluttered with sketches and charts, 8 “Been carving that old so charts must be something that can fellow for years,” Grandma be hung on the wall like a sketch. It called from the kitchen. also says that the charts are “of the “Th e real one hangs out river.” A chart is usually used to show at the dump. Now come information, so a chart of the river must get your supper, before I show how the river looks, like a map.) feed it to him.” 7 MAKE INFERENCES Nicky says his grandmother’s living room “looked like a river rat’s workroom, all right.” What does this comment tell you about his feelings about being in his grandmother’s home? (He thinks her living room is messy and unusual.

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