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By: George Selden

Cricket in Times Square. Genre: Fantasy Author’s Purpose: Entertain Skill: Visualizing. By: George Selden. Compiled by Terry Sams , Piedmont. Summary.   Chester Cricket got much more

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By: George Selden

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  1. Cricket in Times Square Genre: Fantasy Author’s Purpose: Entertain Skill: Visualizing By: George Selden Compiled by Terry Sams, Piedmont

  2. Summary   Chester Cricket got much more than he bargained for when he climbed into a picnic basket in his Connecticut meadow.  He got a trip all the way to New York City.  There, in the Times Square subway station, Mario Bellini, the son of the newsstand owners, finds Chester and makes a home for him in a matchbox.  One evening, after the newsstand closes, Chester makes friends with Tucker Mouse and Harry the Cat, who take him above ground to see the sights of the city!

  3. Genre: Fantasy • In fantasy, animals talk, miniature creatures inhabit  a world beneath the floorboards, and a peach swells to the size of a house. Some of the characteristics found in fantasy extend to science fiction, which is set most often in the future and deals with the impact of technology and science on humans. In science fiction, robots talk, people travel faster than light, and Martians exist.

  4. Extend Skills - Fables • A fable is a brief story that teaches a lesson. • The characters in fables, such as “The Ant and the Grasshopper” are usually animals. • They talk and act like people and reveal the good and bad points of human nature.

  5. Fantasy about something that could not happen may or may not have talking animals as characters may be short or long may or may not teach a lesson Fables about something that could not happen usually has talking animal characters is short teaches a lesson Compare Fantasy and Fable

  6. Comprehension Skill - Visualizing When we visualize while reading, we create pictures in our minds. Visualizing helps us to relate to the characters in a text. We imagine what things look like, smell, sound, taste, and feel.

  7. Practice Visualizing TE 157a Let’s look at page 144 whenChester is in the picnic basket together.

  8. Comprehension Review – Making Judgments TE 157b • When you form opinions about what people are like, you are making judgments. • You form opinions about characters in stories by using story events and your own experiences to make judgments as you read. • Look for story evidence to support your judgment

  9. Vocabulary Skill - Synonyms • Words with similar meanings are called synonyms. • You can often find out the meaning of unknown words by finding a clue in the words around it. • Examples – melody and song subway – underground train

  10. Research Skills –Newspapers/ Magazines/Periodicals157j • Newspapers are published daily or weekly. • Newspapers contain news, advertisements, feature stories, editorials, and other useful, current information.

  11. Research Skills –Newspapers/ Magazines/Periodicals157j • Magazines, also called periodicals are published at set intervals (weekly, monthly, quarterly and so on). • They may contain news articles, opinion columns, advertisements, cartoons, reports, and other current information. • They often focus on a particular subject. • The name of the magazine will usually tell you what subject is covered.

  12. Weekly Fluency Check -Read with Attention to Punctuation TE 157d • Students should read with attention to punctuation. Let the punctuation be your guide as you read. • Students should let their voices fall at the end of a sentence, and rise at the end of a question. • Students should pause at commas, semicolons, dashes, and colons. • Go to pages 140-141, beginning with “Tucker Mouse had . . .”

  13. Read to Find Out – Pages 138 - 145 • Where is Chester from? • How did he get to the newsstand in the subway station? • How does Chester feel about being in New York in the beginning? Why?

  14. Read to Find Out –Pages 138 - 145 • How does Chester feel while traveling in the picnic basket? Why? • Find in the text the words the author uses to help you visualize Chester’s journey inside the picnic basket?

  15. Read to Find Out –Pages 146-154 • What does Chester hear, see, and feel when the cat arrives? • Why is Chester so concerned about Tucker? • How does the author help the reader picture the journey up the drainpipe?

  16. Read to Find Out –Pages 146-154 • What are some details the author uses to help create a mental picture of New York City at night? • Visualize Chester’s life in the country and in New York City. What are some of the differences?

  17. Writing Assignment Choose one of the following and write a paragraph: • Write a paragraph and persuade me to live in either the country or the city. You may choose which place and then add details as to why you think that is the best place to live. Be sure to include a topic sentence that includes which place you are writing about. • What are some of the problems that cities have? Write a letter of complaint to a city’s mayor, expressing your complaint clearly and politely.

  18. Fun Stuff • Character Practice • Match the Vocabulary • Spelling Words Hangman • Crickets • Reading Test • Spelling Test

  19. More Good Stuff • ABC order – This week’s word list • New York City Tour • What’s Beneath a City Sidewalk? • Crickets Care Sheet

  20. Say It! • occasion • railroad • subway • traffic • chirp • furiously • melody • venturing

  21. More Words to Know eavesdropping liverwurst scrounging sympathetically

  22. chirp • a short, sharp sound made by a cricket

  23. furiously • quickly; wildly

  24. melody • a succession of single tones in music; tune

  25. occasion • a special event

  26. railroad • the track with steel rails on which trains travel

  27. subway • an underground electric railway

  28. traffic • cars, trucks, and buses traveling along • roadways

  29. venturing • daring to go

  30. eavesdropping • listening to talk that you are not supposed to hear

  31. liverwurst • a sausage made mostly of liver

  32. scrounging • searching about for what you can find

  33. sympathetically • with kindness

  34. She furiously jumped over the bike.

  35. She furiously jumped over the bike.

  36. The student was caught eavesdropping at the teacher’s door.

  37. The student was caught eavesdropping at the teacher’s door.

  38. My teacher talks sympathetically to me when I have had a bad day.

  39. My teacher talks sympathetically to me when I have had a bad day.

  40. The traffic is really busy.

  41. The traffic is really busy.

  42. Today is a very important occasion.

  43. Today is a very important occasion.

  44. He shared his liverwurst sandwich with me.

  45. He shared his liverwurst sandwich with me.

  46. The dog was scrounging under the bed for his lost bone.

  47. The dog was scrounging under the bed for his lost bone.

  48. Crickets love to chirp at night.

  49. Crickets love to chirp at night.

  50. The singers had a soft melody.

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