Connect Reading and Writing

Vocabulary

  • battle

  • council

  • creatures

  • destroyed

  • gathered

  • monster

  • powerful

Critical Thinking

  • 1. SUM IT UP Make a Plot Diagram to gather and record the events of the story. Then use your diagram to summarize the legend.

    Plot Diagram

    Plot Diagram

  • 2. Discuss Share your Quickwrite with a partner. What do you think the Lenape were curious about when they told the legend of these monsters?

  • 3. Describe A legend is a story about the past. What clues tell you that the battle with the Yakwawiak took place long ago?

  • 4. Make Judgments Do you think the decision to not destroy the last Yakwawiak was a good one? Explain your thinking.

Reading Fluency

Expression Read the passage on page 671 to a partner. Assess your fluency.

  • 1. I read

    • a. great

    • b. OK

    • c. not very well

  • 2. What I did best in my reading was _______.

Reading Strategy

Synthesize

How did gathering information to make generalizations help you better understand the story? Tell a partner.

Vocabulary Review

Oral Review Read the paragraph aloud. Add the vocabulary words.

My friends and I saw a movie about a frightening _______. The beast was so big and _______ that it picked up smaller _______ with one hand! The city _______ held a meeting to decide what to do. But when they _______ together in city hall, the monster showed up, too! That’s when the hero arrived. After a _______, the hero _______ the monster.

Written Review Imagine you discover a giant creature. Write a speech to persuade the city council that it is not a monster, but a new species that should be protected. Use five vocabulary words.

Illustration of the pen icon Write about the Guiding Question

Explore How We Can Help Earth

How could changing their ways have saved the Yakwawiak from being destroyed? Write your opinion. Reread the selection to find examples to support your opinion.