Focus on Genre: Myth

A myth is a fictional narrative. The author’s purpose is to explain something about the world. A myth usually gives a super natural, or nonscientific, explanation for something in nature.

Your Job as a Reader: Reading Strategy: Make Inferences

As you read, make inferences by combining information in the text with what you already know.

What I read:
Sky Bear is running through the stars. Sky Bear is really a group of stars.

Illustration of a spiral galaxy