| Grade Level | System Requirement | Product Number |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 4-5 | Apple 128K | A301 |
| It’s Scrappy to the rescue when a strong wind litters the city streets with letters, memos, notices, newspapers, and advertisements. Your students help Scrappy collect as many documents as possible while avoiding twisters and street sweepers. They then examine each document for topic, content, and form and attempt to return it to its proper location.Features readings in various writing styles for repeated useOptions to specify comprehension questions. | ||
Introduction
A giant wind storm has hit Windy City! Papers are scattered everywhere!
Your job is to go around town and collect as many papers as you can while avoiding the twisters and sweepers. You might find newspaper articles, advertisements, letters, brochures, guides, manuals, memos, or other notes. When you find a paper, you can answer questions about it to earn points. You’ll also want to “send” it back to its correct location. To do that, you’ll use clues about its topic and content. If you send it to the wrong place, you’ll lose a stamp.
Title: Windy City
Subject: Reading comprehension
Grade Range: 3-4
Program Type: Educational game; guided practice
Required Hardware: Apple II series computer with 128K RAM; color monitor is recommended; a printer is optional
Classroom Use: Individual student
Learning Objectives:
- to identify the topic
- to identify the main idea
- to find supporting facts
- to identify a sequence of stated events or ideas
- to identify two ideas that are being compared
- to note differences between two elements
- to determine the cause of a key point
- to see the author’s purpose