Illustration of the selection 3 title page, “The Girl and the Chenoo”
Selection 3 Overview
  • Build Background

  • Language & Grammar

    Use Appropriate

    Language

    Use Verbs in the Past

    Perfect Tense

  • Prepare to Read

    Learn Key Vocabulary

    Learn a Reading

    Strategy

    Synthesize

  • Read and Write

    Focus on Genre

    Play

    Apply the Reading Strategy

    Synthesize

    Critical Thinking

    Reading Fluency

    Read with Expression

    Vocabulary Review

    Write About the Guiding Question

  • Connect Across the Curriculum

    Literary Analysis

    Analyze Drama

    Vocabulary Study

    Use Context Clues:

    Specialized Language

    Listening/Speaking

    Readers Theater

    Media/Writing

    Complete an Application

    Language and Grammar

    Use Appropriate

    Language

    Writing and Grammar

    Write About a Memory

Build Background
Learn about the Abenaki

”The Girl and the Chenoo” is a Native American play in the Abenaki tradition. It takes place in the northeast of what is now the United States. The Chenoo is a legendary monster who appears in the stories of many Native American cultures.

Connect

Brainstorm and role-Play How does food connect people? With a group, brainstorm ways that people have found, prepared, and shared food throughout time. Choose one idea to role-play for the class.

Photograph of a Native American symbol