Reflect on Your Reading

Think back on your reading of the unit selections. Discuss what you did to understand what you read.

Focus on Genre Author’s Purpose and Word Choice

In this unit, you learned about authors’ word choices and their purposes for writing. Choose a selection from the unit and draw a diagram or other graphic that shows the author’s purpose and word choice. Use your graphic to explain your ideas to a partner.

Reading Strategy Make Connections

As you read the selections, you learned to make connections. Explain to a partner how you will use this strategy in the future.

Explore the Guiding Question

Throughout this unit, you have been thinking about how we come to the rescue of others. Choose one of these ways to explore the Guiding Question:

• • Discuss With a group, discuss a time when you came to someone’s rescue or someone came to yours. Explain what happened and how the experience affected you.

• • Role-Play Imagine that you and a partner are José from “The Challenge” and Aaron from “Zlateh the Goat.” Talk about your problems, how you tried to solve them, and whether you were successful.

• • Draw Draw a comic strip for either José’s or Aaron’s problem. Show the problem, then show what the character did to try to solve it. Finally, show the outcome. Share your comic strip with a partner.

Book Talk

Which Unit Library book did you choose? Explain to a partner what it taught you about how people try to help others.