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