► Build Background
► Language & Grammar
Describe People, Places, and Things
Use Adjectives
That Describe
► Prepare to Read
Learn Key Vocabulary
Learn a Reading Strategy
Visualize
► Read and Write
Focus on Genre
Realistic Fiction
Apply the Reading Strategy
Visualize
Critical Thinking
Reading Fluency
Read with Intonation
Vocabulary Review
Write About the Guiding Question
► Connect Across the Curriculum
Literary Analysis
Analyze Text Structure:
Chronological Order
Analyze Point of View
Vocabulary Study
Use Prefixes
Listening/Speaking
Present a Family Heirloom
Language and Grammar
Describe People, Places, and Things
Writing and Grammar
Write About People,
Places, and Things
Why do people leave the home they love? Learn what happened in Vietnam and why so many people had to make the hardest decisions of their lives.
Quickwrite Suppose you had to leave your home and start a new life in a new place. What one object would you bring with you? Why would you choose that object?
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Many Vietnamese people had to escape the country at the end of the Vietnam War.