Contents
UNIT 1
The
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BIG
Question
Why Read?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Genre Focus: Informational Media
Reading Skills Focus
Setting a Purpose for Reading
Skimming and Scanning
Understanding Graphics
Identifying Main Idea and
Supporting Details
Text and Literary Elements
Text Features
Titles and Subheads
Process
Author’s Purpose
Vocabulary Skills
Word References
Multiple-Meaning Words
Grammar
Parts of Speech
Verbs
WARM-UP
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2
Genre Focus: Informational Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Sally S. Stich Animal Attraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . .
6
READING WORKSHOP 1
Skill Lesson: Setting a Purpose for Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8
Consumer Reports 4 Kids Ballpark Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Web Article . . . 12
Amy Bertrand How He Did It: Health Advice, Kid-to-Kid . . Informational Text: Web Article . . . 20
WRITING WORKSHOP PART 1
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Applying Good Writing Traits: Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Grammar Link: Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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READING WORKSHOP 2
Skill Lesson: Skimming and Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Kathryn R. Hoffman Messaging Mania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . . 34
Nancy Gibbs The Real Magic of Harry Potter . . Informational Text:
Magazine Article . . 42
READING WORKSHOP 3
Skill Lesson: Understanding Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Uncredited Make Your Own Kite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Instructions . . . 52
Jeff Smith from The Great Cow Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic Story . . . 58
WRITING WORKSHOP PART 2
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Listening, Speaking, Viewing: Getting Information from Visuals . . . . . . . . 67
READING WORKSHOP 4
Skill Lesson: Identifying Main Idea and Supporting Details . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Gwendolyn Brooks To Young Readers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 72
Neil Gaiman Why Books Are Dangerous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Personal Essay . . . 78
COMPARING LITERATURE WORKSHOP
Comparing Literature: Author’s Purpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Judith Viorst The Southpaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 88
Mary Helen Ponce Concha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 93
WRAP-UP
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Your Turn: Read and Apply Skills
Kristin Hunter The Scribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 102
Reading on Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Skills and Strategies Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
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UNIT 2
The
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BIG
Question
What Brings Out
the Best in You?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Genre Focus: Biography/Autobiography
Reading Skills Focus
Activating Prior Knowledge
Connecting
Predicting
Questioning
Literary Elements
Narrator
Point of View
Tone
Chronological Order
Vocabulary Skills
Synonyms
Antonyms
Negating Prefixes
Word Choice
Grammar
Nouns
Pronouns
WARM-UP
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116
Genre Focus: Biography/Autobiography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Jim Haskins Madam C. J. Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Biography . .
119
READING WORKSHOP 1
Skill Lesson: Activating Prior Knowledge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Gary Soto The Jacket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Autobiography . . 130
Nikki Giovanni The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 139
WRITING WORKSHOP PART 1
Autobiographical Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Applying Good Writing Traits: Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Grammar Link: Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
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READING WORKSHOP 2
Skill Lesson: Connecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Bill Littlefield Satchel Paige . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Biography . . 150
Sara Van Alstyne Allen Song for a Surf-Rider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . .
161
READING WORKSHOP 3
Skill Lesson: Predicting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
William Jay Jacobs Eleanor Roosevelt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Biography . . 168
Uncredited In Eleanor Roosevelt‘s Time . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Timeline . . 180
WRITING WORKSHOP PART 2
Autobiographical Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Listening, Speaking, Viewing: Active Listening in a Group Discussion . . . . 187
READING WORKSHOP 4
Skill Lesson: Questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alice Park Gentleman of the Pool . . . . . . . Informational Text:
188
Magazine Article . . 192
Judith Ortiz Cofer Primary Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Autobiography . . 198
COMPARING LITERATURE WORKSHOP
Comparing Literature: Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Paul Zindel from The Pigman & Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Autobiography . .
211
Avi The Goodness of Matt Kaizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 221
WRAP-UP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Your Turn: Read and Apply Skills
Mary Whitebird Ta-Na-E-Ka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 238
Reading on Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Skills and Strategies Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
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UNIT 3
The
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BIG
Question
What’s Fair and What’s Not? . . . . . . . . . . . . .
252
Genre Focus: Persuasive Writing
Reading Skills Focus
Distinguishing Fact and Opinion
Clarifying
Inferring
Identifying Problems and
Solutions
Vocabulary Skills
Denotation/Connotation
Synonyms and Shades
of Meaning
Semantic Slanting
Literary Elements
Author’s Style
Bias
Argument
Mood
Grammar
Adjectives
Adverbs
Other Parts
of Speech
WARM-UP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Genre Focus: Persuasive Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Sojourner Truth And Ain’t I a Woman? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Speech . . 257
READING WORKSHOP 1
Skill Lesson: Distinguishing Fact and Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Richard Durbin Preserving a Great American Symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Speech . . 264
Elizabeth Partridge Looking for America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Essay . . 270
WRITING WORKSHOP PART 1
Persuasive Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Applying Good Writing Traits: Sentence Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Grammar Link: Adjectives and Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
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READING WORKSHOP 2
Skill Lesson: Clarifying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Uncredited Two Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . Functional Document: Advertisements . . 286
Cynthia Rylant Stray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 292
READING WORKSHOP 3
Skill Lesson: Inferring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Melanie Bertotto Dressed for Success? . . . . . . . . Informational Text:
Magazine Article . . 302
Sandra Cisneros Eleven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 308
WRITING WORKSHOP PART 2
Persuasive Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Listening, Speaking, Viewing: Effective Speaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
READING WORKSHOP 4
Skill Lesson: Identifying Problems and Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
The Earth from 50 Simple Things Kids
Works Group Can Do to Save the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Book . . 322
Jane Yolen Greyling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 328
COMPARING LITERATURE WORKSHOP
Comparing Literature: Conflict. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Marta Salinas The Scholarship Jacket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 339
Francisco Jiménez The Circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 347
WRAP-UP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Your Turn: Read and Apply Skills
Ray Bradbury All Summer in a Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 358
Reading on Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Skills and Strategies Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
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UNIT 4
The
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BIG
Question
What Makes You Who You Are?
. . . . . . . . . 370
Genre Focus: Poetry
Reading Skills Focus
Visualizing
Responding
Interpreting
Monitoring Comprehension
Literary Elements
Poetic Features
Sound Devices
Rhythm, Rhyme, and Meter
Figurative Language
Vocabulary Skills
Context Clues
(Definition and Restatement,
Comparison and Contrast,
Examples)
Grammar
Sentences
Fragments
Subject/Predicate
Direct and Indirect
Objects
WARM-UP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Genre Focus: Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Shel Silverstein Whatif . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 375
READING WORKSHOP 1
Skill Lesson: Visualizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Luis Omar Salinas My Father Is a Simple Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 380
Lensey Namioka The All-American Slurp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 386
WRITING WORKSHOP PART 1
Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Applying Good Writing Traits: Word Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Grammar Link: Complete Sentences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
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READING WORKSHOP 2
Skill Lesson: Responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
Maya Angelou Life Doesn’t Frighten Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 406
Toni Cade Bambara Geraldine Moore the Poet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . .
412
READING WORKSHOP 3
Skill Lesson: Interpreting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Pat Mora Same Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 424
Elizabeth Ellis Flowers and Freckle Cream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 430
WRITING WORKSHOP PART 2
Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
Listening, Speaking, Viewing: Reading Poetry Aloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
READING WORKSHOP 4
Skill Lesson: Monitoring Comprehension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
Robert Service The March of the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 444
Jordan Brown The Gene Scene . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text:
Magazine Article . . 452
COMPARING LITERATURE WORKSHOP
Comparing Literature: Figurative Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
e. e. cummings maggie and milly and molly and may. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 461
Eloise Greenfield Daydreamers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 463
WRAP-UP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
Your Turn: Read and Apply Skills
Lewis Carroll The Walrus and the Carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 470
Reading on Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
Skills and Strategies Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
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UNIT 5
The
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BIG
Question
How Should You Deal with Bullies? . . . . . .
480
Genre Focus: Short Story
Reading Skills Focus
Drawing Conclusions
Understanding Cause
and Effect
Identifying Sequence
Paraphrasing and
Summarizing
Vocabulary Skills
Base Words Prefixes
Suffixes
Roots
Literary Elements
Dialogue
Conflict
Plot
Characterization
Grammar
Phrases
Independent and
Dependent Clauses
Commas
WARM-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
Genre Focus: Short Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Rona Maynard The Fan Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 485
READING WORKSHOP 1
Skill Lesson: Drawing Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
Will Eisner Street Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic Story . . 498
Uncredited What Kids Say About Bullying . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Web Article . .
510
WRITING WORKSHOP PART 1
Short Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Applying Good Writing Traits: Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Grammar Link: Independent and Dependent Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
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READING WORKSHOP 2
Skill Lesson: Understanding Cause and Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Norma Fox Mazer Tuesday of the Other June . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 524
Stephen Spender My Parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 540
READING WORKSHOP 3
Skill Lesson: Identifying Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544
Richard Peck Priscilla and the Wimps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 548
Ritu Upadhyay and
Andrea DeSimone Let the Bullies Beware . . . . . . . Informational Text:
Magazine Article . . 556
WRITING WORKSHOP PART 2
Short Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562
Listening, Speaking, Viewing: Reading Aloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
READING WORKSHOP 4
Skill Lesson: Paraphrasing and Summarizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
Ellen Conford Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 570
Jack Prelutsky The New Kid on the Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 583
READING ACROSS TEXTS WORKSHOP
Comparing Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586
Jon Swartz Bullies in the Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . 589
Elizabeth Siris The Bully Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . 593
WRAP-UP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598
Your Turn: Read and Apply Skills
Charles J. Finger El Enano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 600
Reading on Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608
Skills and Strategies Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610
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UNIT 6
The
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BIG
Question
What Makes a Hero? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .614
Genre Focus: Folktale, Fantasy, and Myth
Reading Skills Focus
Activating Prior
Knowledge
Clarifying
Comparing
and Contrasting
Predicting
Vocabulary Skills
Compound Words
Borrowed Words
Word Histories
Literary Elements
Hero
Cultural Context
Theme
Setting
Grammar
Capitalization
Sentence Combining
Run-on Sentences
Commas in Sentences
WARM-UP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616
Genre Focus: Folktale, Fantasy, and Myth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618
Alice Low Persephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Myth . .
619
READING WORKSHOP 1
Skill Lesson: Activating Prior Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Thomas Fields-Meyer,
Steve Helling, Lori Rozsa Hurricane Heroes . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text:
624
Magazine Article . . 628
Harold Courlander All Stories Are Anansi’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Folktale . . 636
WRITING WORKSHOP PART 1
Fable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642
Applying Good Writing Traits: Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644
Grammar Link: Compound and Complex Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
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READING WORKSHOP 2
Skill Lesson: Clarifying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
Walker Brents The Twelve Labors of Hercules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Myth . . 650
Mary Pope Osborne Pecos Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Folktale . . 660
READING WORKSHOP 3
Skill Lesson: Comparing and Contrasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670
John Gardner Dragon, Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fantasy . . 674
Jack London The King of Mazy May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 688
WRITING WORKSHOP PART 2
Fable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702
Listening, Speaking, Viewing: Storytelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705
READING WORKSHOP 4
Skill Lesson: Predicting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706
Mary Steele Aunt Millicent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . .
710
Clifton Davis A Mason-Dixon Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Personal Essay . . 734
COMPARING LITERATURE WORKSHOP
Comparing Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744
Toni Cade Bambara The Toad and the Donkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Folktale . . 748
Virginia Hamilton Doc Rabbit, Bruh Fox, and Tar Baby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Folktale . . 751
WRAP-UP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758
Your Turn: Read and Apply Skills
Alma Luz Villanueva The Sand Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fantasy . . 760
Reading on Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766
Skills and Strategies Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768
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UNIT 7
The
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BIG
Question
What Can We Learn from Our Mistakes? . .
772
Genre Focus: Historical Fiction and Nonfiction
Reading Skills Focus
Synthesizing
Identifying Main Idea and
Supporting Details
Evaluating
Inferring
Vocabulary Skills
Base Words and Roots
Latin Roots
Greek Roots
Anglo-Saxon Origins
Literary Elements
Symbol
Narrator
Description
Time Order/Sequence
Grammar
Subject-Verb
Agreement
WARM-UP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774
Genre Focus: Historical Fiction and Nonfiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776
San Francisco Chronicle The Great Radio Scare . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Historical News Article . . 777
READING WORKSHOP 1
Skill Lesson: Synthesizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782
Mildred D. Taylor The Gold Cadillac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 786
Sue Alexander Nadia the Willful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 806
WRITING WORKSHOP PART 1
Personal Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814
Applying Good Writing Traits: Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816
Grammar Link: Subject-Verb Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817
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READING WORKSHOP 2
Skill Lesson: Identifying Main Idea and Supporting Details. . . . . . . . . . . 818
Yoshiko Uchida The Bracelet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 822
Dorothy M. Johnson Too Soon a Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Historical Fiction . . 832
READING WORKSHOP 3
Skill Lesson: Evaluating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840
Robert Cormier President Cleveland, Where Are You? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 844
David Fischer Nobody’s Perfect . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text:
Magazine Article . . 860
WRITING WORKSHOP PART 2
Personal Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866
Listening, Speaking, Viewing: News Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869
READING WORKSHOP 4
Skill Lesson: Inferring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870
Patricia C. McKissack
and Fredrick McKissack, Jr. The Shutout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Historical Nonfiction . . 874
Donna L. Washington The Talking Skull. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Folktale . . 884
READING ACROSS TEXTS WORKSHOP
Comparing Author’s Credibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894
Jim Murphy from The Great Fire . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Historical Nonfiction . . 897
Justin and
Fannie Belle Becker Letters About the Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Historical Document . . 905
WRAP-UP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910
Your Turn: Read and Apply Skills
Stan Sakai A Lesson in Courtesy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic Story . .
912
Reading on Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 920
Skills and Strategies Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922
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Contents
UNIT 8
The
?
BIG
Question
What Makes a Friend? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
926
Genre Focus: Drama
Reading Skills Focus
Visualizing
Clarifying
Skimming and Scanning
Predicting
Literary Elements
Act and Scene
Characterization
Stage Directions
Sensory Imagery
Vocabulary Skills
Dialect and Slang
Clipped Words
Literal/Figurative Meanings
Idioms
Grammar
Hyphens
Semicolons
Colons
Quotation Marks
WARM-UP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 928
Genre Focus: Drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 930
Gary Soto from Novio Boy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama . . 931
READING WORKSHOP 1
Skill Lesson: Visualizing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
938
Kenneth Grahame The Reluctant Dragon, Scene 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama . . 942
Kenneth Grahame The Reluctant Dragon, Scene 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama . . 954
WRITING WORKSHOP PART 1
Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966
Applying Good Writing Traits: Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 968
Grammar Link: Apostrophes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969
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READING WORKSHOP 2
Skill Lesson: Clarifying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970
Fan Kissen Damon and Pythias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama . . 974
Joe Smith Charlie Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 988
READING WORKSHOP 3
Skill Lesson: Skimming and Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996
Eric Alter The Bully of Barksdale Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama . . 1000
Christina Hamlett Tales of the Tangled Tresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama . . 1016
WRITING WORKSHOP PART 2
Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1032
Listening, Speaking, Viewing: Oral Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035
READING WORKSHOP 4
Skill Lesson: Predicting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1036
Isaac Bashevis Singer Zlateh the Goat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 1040
Kevin Gray and
Cindy Dampier Best of Buddies . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text:
Magazine Article . . 1052
READING ACROSS TEXTS WORKSHOP
Comparing Primary and Secondary Source Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1056
Catherine Clarke Fox Baby Hippo Orphan Finds a Friend . . . . . . . Informational Text: Web Site . . 1059
Stephen Tuei from The Caretaker’s Diary . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Web Journal . . 1063
WRAP-UP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1072
Your Turn: Read and Apply Skills
Robert Frost A Time to Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 1074
Reading on Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1076
Skills and Strategies Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1078
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Selections by Genre
Fiction
The Southpaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
Judith Viorst
Concha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Mary Helen Ponce
The Scribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Kristin Hunter
The Goodness of Matt Kaizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Avi
Ta-Na-E-Ka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Mary Whitebird
Stray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Cynthia Rylant
Eleven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Sandra Cisneros
Greyling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Jane Yolen
The Scholarship Jacket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Marta Salinas
The Circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Francisco Jiménez
All Summer in a Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Ray Bradbury
The All-American Slurp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Lensey Namioka
Geraldine Moore the Poet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Toni Cade Bambara
Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570
Ellen Conford
El Enano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
Charles J. Finger
Dragon, Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
John Gardner
The King of Mazy May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688
Jack London
Aunt Millicent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710
Mary Steele
The Sand Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760
Alma Luz Villanueva
The Gold Cadillac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786
Mildred D. Taylor
Nadia the Willful. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806
Sue Alexander
The Bracelet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822
Yoshiko Uchida
Too Soon a Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832
Dorothy M. Johnson
President Cleveland, Where Are You? . . . . . . . . 844
Robert Cormier
Charlie Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 988
Joe Smith
Zlateh the Goat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1040
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Flowers and Freckle Cream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
Elizabeth Ellis
Poetry
The Fan Club. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Rona Maynard
To Young Readers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Gwendolyn Brooks
Tuesday of the Other June . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524
Norma Fox Mazer
The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be . . . . . . . 139
Nikki Giovanni
Priscilla and the Wimps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548
Richard Peck
Song for a Surf-Rider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Sara Van Alstyne Allen
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Selections by Genre
Whatif . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Shel Silverstein
Damon and Pythias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 974
Fan Kissen
My Father Is a Simple Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Luis Omar Salinas
The Bully of Barksdale Street . . . . . . . . . . . . 1000
Eric Alter
A Minor Bird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Robert Frost
Tale of the Tangled Tresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016
Christina Hamlett
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Maya Angelou
Same Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
Pat Mora
The March of the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
Robert Service
maggie and milly and molly and may . . . . . . . . 461
e. e. cummings
Daydreamers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Eloise Greenfield
The Walrus and the Carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
Lewis Carroll
My Parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
Stephen Spender
The New Kid on the Block. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583
Jack Prelutsky
A Time to Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1074
Robert Frost
Drama
from Novio Boy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931
Gary Soto
The Reluctant Dragon, Scene 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 942
Kenneth Grahame
The Reluctant Dragon, Scene 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 954
Kenneth Grahame
Folktales
Persephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619
Alice Low
All Stories Are Anansi’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
Harold Courlander
The Twelve Labors of Hercules . . . . . . . . . . . . 650
Walker Brents
Pecos Bill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
Mary Pope Osborne
The Toad and the Donkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748
Toni Cade Bambara
Doc Rabbit, Bruh Fox, and Tar Baby . . . . . . . . . 751
Virginia Hamilton
The Talking Skull. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884
Donna L. Washington
Graphic Stories
and Cartoons
from The Great Cow Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Jeff Smith
Street Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Will Eisner
A Lesson in Courtesy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912
Stan Sakai
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Selections by Genre
Personal Essays
Why Books Are Dangerous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Neil Gaiman
Looking for America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Elizabeth Partridge
A Mason-Dixon Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734
Clifton Davis
The Real Magic of Harry Potter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Nancy Gibbs
Make Your Own Kite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
In Eleanor Roosevelt’s Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Gentleman of the Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Alice Park
Dressed for Success? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Melanie Bertotto
Biography, Autobiography,
Memoirs
from 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save
the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
The EarthWorks Group
Madam C. J. Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Jim Haskins
The Gene Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
Jordan Brown
The Jacket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Gary Soto
What Kids Say About Bullying . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
Satchel Paige. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Bill Littlefield
Eleanor Roosevelt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
William Jay Jacobs
Primary Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Judith Ortiz Cofer
from The Pigman & Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Paul Zindel
Informational Texts
Animal Attraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Sally S. Stich
Ballpark Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Consumer Reports 4 Kids
How He Did It: Health Advice, Kid-to-Kid . . . . . . . 20
Amy Bertrand
Messaging Mania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Kathryn R. Hoffman
Let the Bullies Beware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556
Ritu Upadhyay and Andrea DeSimone
Bullies in the Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
Jon Swartz
The Bully Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
Elizabeth Siris
Hurricane Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628
Thomas Fields-Meyer, Steve Helling, and Lori Rosza
The Great Radio Scare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777
Nobody’s Perfect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860
David Fischer
The Shutout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874
Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack Jr.
from The Great Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897
Jim Murphy
Best of Buddies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1052
Kevin Gray and Cindy Dampier
Baby Hippo Orphan Finds a Friend . . . . . . . . . 1059
Catherine Clarke Fox
from The Caretaker’s Diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063
Stephen Tuei
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Selections by Genre
Historical Documents
Functional Texts
And Ain’t I a Woman? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Sojourner Truth
Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Preserving a Great American Symbol. . . . . . . . . 264
Richard Durbin
Letters About the Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905
Justin and Fannie Belle Becker
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Skills Features
READING SKILLS
LITERATURE SKILLS
Reading Workshops
Setting
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Skimming and Scanning. . . . . . . . . . . .
Understanding Graphics . . . . . . . . . . .
Identifying Main Idea and Supporting Details
Activating Prior Knowledge . . . . . . . . . .
Connecting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Predicting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Distinguishing Fact and Opinion . . . . . . .
Clarifying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Inferring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Identifying Problems and Solutions. . . . . .
Visualizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Interpreting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Monitoring Comprehension. . . . . . . . . .
Drawing Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Understanding Cause and Effect . . . . . . .
Identifying Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Paraphrasing and Summarizing. . . . . . . .
Activating Prior Knowledge . . . . . . . . . .
Clarifying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Comparing and Contrasting. . . . . . . . . .
Predicting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Synthesizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Identifying Main Idea and Supporting Details
Evaluating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Inferring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Visualizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Clarifying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Skimming and Scanning. . . . . . . . . . . .
Predicting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Narrator . . . . . . . . . . .
Speaker . . . . . . . . . . .
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Style . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Rhyme, Rhythm, and Meter.
Sound Devices . . . . . . . .
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Dialogue . . . . . . . . . . .
Conflict. . . . . . . . . . . .
Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Characterization . . . . . . .
Hero . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Theme . . . . . . . . . . . .
Setting . . . . . . . . . . . .
Symbol . . . . . . . . . . . .
Description. . . . . . . . . .
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Act and Scene . . . . . . . .
Stage Directions . . . . . . .
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Genre Focus
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Read for Author’s Credibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894
Read to Compare Primary and Secondary Sources. . 1056
Informational Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Biography/Autobiography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Persuasive Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
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Skills Features
Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Folktale, Fantasy, and Myth . . .
Historical Fiction and Nonfiction
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English Language Coach
References and Multiple Meaning Words . . . .
Synonyms and Antonyms . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Denotation, Connotation, and Semantic Slanting .
Context Clues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes . . . . . . . . . . .
Compound Words, Borrowed Words,
Word Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Word Roots (Latin, Greek, and Anglo-Saxon) . .
Dialect and Slang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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WRITING SKILLS
Writing Products
Summary 1 . . . . . . . . . .
Summary 2 . . . . . . . . . .
Autobiographical Narrative 1 .
Autobiographical Narrative 2 .
Persuasive Essay 1. . . . . . .
Persuasive Essay 2. . . . . . .
Poem 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Short Story 1. . . . . . . . . .
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Conventions . . .
Sentence Fluency
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Organization . . .
Voice . . . . . . .
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Nouns and Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Adjectives, Adverbs, and Other Parts of Speech .
Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Phrases, Clauses, and Commas . . . . . . . . . .
Sentence Combining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Subject-Verb Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hyphens, Colons, Semicolons,
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LISTENING, SPEAKING,
AND VIEWING
Getting Information from Visuals . . . .
Active Listening in a Group Discussion .
Effective Speaking . . . . . . . . . . . .
Reading Poetry Aloud . . . . . . . . . .
Reading Aloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Storytelling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
News Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Oral Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . .
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