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Teacher’s Guide MAGAZINE ARTICLES The Story of Books . 6 Expository Nonfiction 930L How Ask Is Made . 11 . Expository Nonfiction 760L Dr . Bibliophile’s Odd and Curious Books . 16 Photo Essay 890L The Book of Everything . 18 Expository Nonfiction 890L Meet Brian Floca . 24 . Narrative Nonfiction 730L Instant Book . 27. Procedure Ask: The Magic of Books © January 2017 Contents Teacher’s Guide for Ask: OVERVIEW The Magic of Books In this magazine, readers will learn about the history Using This Guide . 2. and development of books. Ask: Skills and Standards Overview . 3. The Magic of Books includes information Article Guides . 4 about the earliest methods of making books, how an issue of Ask magazine is created, the first Cross-Text Connections . 9 . encyclopedia, a few unusual-looking books, and one author’s creative process. Mini-Unit . 10 Graphic Organizers . .13 . Appendix: Meeting State and National Standards . 14 ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do ideas turn into books? 1 Ask: The Magic of Books © January 2017 Using This Guide We invite you to use this magazine as a flexible teaching tool, ideal for providing interdisciplinary instruction of social studies and science content as well as core literacy concepts . Find practical advice for teaching individual articles or use a mini-unit that helps your students make cross-text connections as they integrate ideas and information . READ INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES PAGES 4 – 8 Each article in this magazine is well-suited for teaching literacy concepts and content area knowledge . For each individual article in this guide, you’ll find the following: Prepare to Read Essential Question CCSS Speaking and Listening 1, 2, 4 Content Concepts C3 Framework for Social Studies Close Reading and Text Analysis Next Generation Science Standards CCSS Reading 1-10 Key Vocabulary Writing/Speaking and Listening CCSS Reading 4 CCSS Writing 1, 2, 3 & 6 CCSS Speaking and Listening 1, 2, 4 TEACH A MINI-UNIT PAGES 10 – 12 SOCIAL Magazine articles can easily be grouped to make cross-text STUDIES connections and comparisons . Our Mini-Unit allows students to read and discuss multiple articles and integrate ideas and information (CCSS .Reading .9) . Discussing multiple articles (CCSS .Reading .9) prepares students to write texts to share and CORE publish in a variety of ways (CCSS Writing. .2) . LITERACY ARTICLES 2 Ask: The Magic of Books © January 2017 Skills and Standards Overview Essential Question: How do ideas turn into books? MAGAZINE CORE CONTENT LITERACY CORRESPONDING CCSS ARTICLES CONCEPT SKILLS ANCHOR STANDARDS The Story of Books Changes in technology • Close Reading Reading 1, 5 & 7 Expository Nonfiction represent examples of historical • Analyze Text Structure Speaking & Listening 4 change . • Interpret Visual Information • Present a Timeline How Ask Is Made People’s perspectives shape • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 5 & 6 Expository Nonfiction the texts they create . • Analyze Text Features Speaking & Listening 1 • Analyze Author’s Purpose • Collaborate Dr. Bibliophile’s Odd and The study of artifacts helps us • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 6 & 7 Curious Books understand life in the past . • Analyze Tone Writing 2 Photo Essay • Interpret Visual Information • Create a “Photo” Essay The Book of Everything People’s perspectives shape the • Close Reading Reading 1, 5 & 9 Expository Nonfiction historical sources they create . • Analyze Text Features Writing 1 • Compare Texts • Write an Advertisement Meet Brian Floca People’s perspectives shape • Close Reading Reading 1, 3, 6 & 7 Narrative Nonfiction the texts they create . • Determine Author’s Purpose Writing 3 • Interpret Visual Information • Write Interview Questions Instant Book The needs of a culture influence • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 5 & 7 Procedure the technologies it creates . • Analyze Text Features Writing 2 • Interpret Visual Information • Write Directions Comparing Texts: Reading 1 & 9; Writing 2 & 7 Mini-Unit: Reading 1 & 3; Writing 2, 5, 7 & 8 3 Ask: The Magic of Books © January 2017 ARTICLE: The Story of Books Magazine pages 6 - 10, Expository Nonfiction The Story of Books Once upon a time, people could not write by Amy Tao and they had no books. But they had stories. art by Mark Hicks Now write Come on, ?? this down. efore there were then what did The ancient How do they books, people learned the giant do? Egyptians wrote their know what stories by heart and stories on flat sheets made Today, books are everywhere—in libraries, classrooms, those funny B marks mean? taught new ones to each from papyrus plants. They 930 They cracked it other. Sometimes it was hard to glued many papyrus sheets like a secret code by making guesses remember them all. together to make one long about words. Things grew a little easier strip. Then they rolled the when writing was invented. strip around a stick to make homes, bookstores, and online—but this hasn’t always The first writers made a scroll that could be tied Scribes wrote on marks by pressing sticks into shut with papyrus string. papyrus with pens I’ll bet the slabs of soft clay. When baked, People in other places made from reeds. first word is “Dear.” the clay became hard and strong. learned to use papyrus from I can’t find the part the Egyptians, but papyrus where the queen says the magic words. What plants grew mainly in Did They been the case . This article explains how books have Egypt. So in colder places Write About? At first, the new marks were people used parchment What just used to make lists. But instead, made from Did They soon people were writing calfskin or goatskin Write About? down laws, and then stories. stretched thin. Imagine if each page of one of evolved over time—from clay tablets to the books we your books were a clay block It’s easier to instead of a piece of paper. Sometimes art © 2016 by Mark Hicks read a long story this way. a long sheet of parchment was Are you going to build No, this is the book folded accordion I’m reading. something with all those style. But usually know today . clay bricks? sheets were folded exile Score: exile in half and sewn This Sumerian clay together to make letter is 5,000 something that L years old. looked a lot like the books we read today. 6 a s k ask 7 ESSENTIAL PREPARE TO READ QUESTION Discuss what learning would be like without books—how would students learn How do ideas turn into books? about ideas, history, or any other subject? Explain that for most of history, books did not exist . People had to memorize information . Tell students that this article explains how the books we know today came to be . CORE CONTENT CONCEPT Social Studies Changes in technology represent examples of CLOSE READING AND TEXT ANALYSIS historical change . Key Ideas • What did people write on before paper was invented? Cite details from the text CROSS-CURRICULAR to support your response . CCSS Reading 1 EXTENSION • How did the things people wrote about change over time? Use details from the Social Studies Use a world map to article to support your answer . CCSS Reading 1 show where developments in making • What reasons did some people have for not liking books? Support your books occurred . Print out a map response with details from the text . CCSS Reading 1 from the internet . Find and mark the places mentioned in the article . For each place, make a note about what Craft and Structure happened there . • Analyze Text Structure Describe the effects the following inventions have had on making books: paper, book pages carved into blocks of wood or KEY VOCABULARY stone, the printing press . CCSS Reading 5 • Interpret Visual Information Choose two illustrations and find the text details parchment (p. 7) paper made they illustrate . How do the illustrations help you understand the text? Do the from the skin of a sheep or goat illustrations make a difference in your understanding? Explain . CCSS Reading 7 accordion style (p. 7) folded or pleated like the bellows of an accordion SPEAKING AND LISTENING etched (p. 10) produced a pattern on a metal surface using acid Present a Timeline Create a timeline to show the important events in the evolution of making books—from pressing sticks into clay slabs to computers . For each event on your timeline, write the date and a short explanation . Present your timeline to your class . 4 Ask: The Magic of Books © January 2017 ARTICLE: How Ask Is Made Magazine pages 11 - 15, Expository Nonfiction How Ask Is Made art by Thor Wickstrom Should we tell It’s time to make a new Ask! It will be them how it’s really done? Nah, the about how wild animals stay healthy. humans like to feel important. First, the Ask team gets together to share I’ve been reading 760 ideas. What would be a fun topic? What a lot of books on wild animals from stories and pictures should be in it? the library. We could interview the zoo about some of I heard a great the ways they try to Just about every month a new issue of Ask comes out . It takes story about a keep the animals from place in Kenya that getting bored! rescues orphaned elephants. I wonder how kangaroos keep many people and a lot of hard work to create each issue . This article their pouches clean? Maybe that could be a story. explains all the steps that are taken to create an issue of Ask . I’ll email the How about an Sure, I’d love to elephant Not all our ideas make it into write a story advice column sanctuary by a bird? the magazine! about elephants. and set up an Once everyone agrees on interview.