Critical Thinking

• 1. SUM IT UP Make a Cause-and-Effect Chart to tell what happens in the story and why. Use your chart to describe what happens to the brothers and their fortunes.

  Cause-and-Effect Chart

  What Happened?	Why?
  brothers leave to make their fortunes	father sends them away

• 2. Make Judgments Do you think Astuto should have let his brothers live on his property with him? Why or why not?

• 3. Synthesize When Dinero tries to cheat the brothers, Astuto has a plan. Pereza says, “Of course you do” and “That’s why we love you.” Why does Pereza say this? Use details from the story to explain.

• 4. Compare Across Texts Which adaptations from “On the Menu” would have helped the pigs defend themselves against Dinero?

Reading Fluency

Intonation Read the passage on page 638 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

Vocabulary Review

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

To make a _____, you have to work hard. For example, you could start a _____. You could buy _____ and then sell it to make money. Follow this _____. Never _____ or lie. If you make a _____ with someone, you must keep it. Even when you experience _____, keep working. Hard workers _____ to do well.

Written Review How can the brothers use the lessons they learned in their new business? Write a journal entry about it. Use five vocabulary words.

Write about the Guiding Question

Explore What It Takes to Survive

What advice did the three Chicharrones follow to survive Dinero? Explain. Read the selection again. Support your answers with examples from the text.