Illustration of the title page from the selection “Zlateh the Goat” Photograph of a man plowing a field with the use of yaks
Selection 3 Overview
  • Build Background

  • Language & Grammar

    Tell an Original Story

    Use Pronouns in the Subject and Predicate

  • Prepare to Read

    Learn Key Vocabulary

    Learn a Reading Strategy

    Make Connections

  • Read and Write

    Focus on Genre

    Classic Short Story

    Apply the Reading Strategy

    Make Connections

    Critical Thinking

    Reading Fluency

    Read with Expression

    Vocabulary Review

    Write About the Guiding Question

  • Connect Across the Curriculum

    Literary Analysis

    Analyze Plot and Theme

    Analyze Proverbs

    Vocabulary Study

    Use Borrowed Words

    Listening/Speaking

    Respond to Literature

    Language and Grammar

    Tell an Original Story

    Writing and Grammar

    Write an Original Story

Build Background
Learn How People Relied on Animals

Before automobiles, supermarkets, and modern machinery, people relied on animals for just about everything.

Connect

Quickwrite Write about the ways animals are important in your life. How are they important in the lives of people you know? What would life be like without them?