Book Summary
The International T-Shirt Challenge features two friends who challenge each other with weekly questions. This week's puzzler, labeled the International T-Shirt Challenge, challenges one of the friends to spend $500 on T-Shirts in five different countries. Using his weblog, he attempts to get information from kids all around the world to help complete the challenge. Photographs, illustrations, and charts support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand the text
• Interpret charts
• Identify compound sentences used in the text
• Identify and create compound words

Materials

• Book -- The International T-Shirt Challenge (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prediction, compound sentences, compound words worksheets

   Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: currency, euros, Internet, phenomenal, pesetas, pounds, rands, rupees, search engine, strategy, stumpers, weblog