Illustration of the title page for the selection “Rachel the Clever”
Selection 2 Overview
  • Build Background

  • Language & Grammar

    Retell a Story

    Use Forms of the Verb Be

  • Prepare to Read

    Learn Key Vocabulary

    Learn a Reading Strategy

    Monitor Your Reading

  • Read and Write

    Focus on Genre

    Folk Tale

    Apply the Reading Strategy

    Monitor Your Reading

    Critical Thinking

    Reading Fluency

    Read with Phrasing

    Vocabulary Review

    Write About the Guiding Question

  • Connect Across the Curriculum

    Literary Analysis

    Analyze Character and Plot

    Vocabulary Study

    Use Synonyms

    Viewing/Speaking

    Illustrate Character Traits

    Listening/Speaking

    Give a Narrative Presentation

    Language and Grammar

    Retell a Story

    Writing and Grammar

    Write About a Folk Tale

Build Background
Meet Clever Characters

Literature, movies, and cartoons are often filled with clever characters called “tricksters.” Meet some of the most famous tricksters and learn how they have changed over time.

Connect

Quickwrite Think about a character from a book, movie, TV show, or a person you know who has outsmarted someone else. Write about how this character used his or her intelligence to trick someone.