Connect Reading and Writing

    Vocabulary

  • advice

  • continues

  • hunter

  • remains

  • roams

  • scatter

  • tale

  • tracks

Critical Thinking

  • 1. SUM IT UP Choose one myth. Complete a Beginning-Middle-End Chart. Use your chart to retell the tale.

    Beginning-Middle-End Chart

    Beginning-Middle-End Chart

  • 2. Infer Why did people use stories long ago to explain mysteries such as why stars are scattered across the sky?

  • 3. Analyze What does “The Seven Mateinnu” tell you about people and their need to seek advice about the world? Use examples from the text.

  • 4. Generalize Why do people continue to tell old myths?

Reading Fluency

Expression Read the passage on page 586 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

Make Inferences

With a partner, share two inferences you made in this selection. Tell what information you used to make the inferences.

Vocabulary Review

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

Here is a short ______: A deer family ______ the fields. The father deer, a buck, sees something moving in the grass ahead. He signals his family to ______. They quickly take his ______. The buck stays, or ______, and watches as a ______ comes near. The buck runs, leaving ______ in the dirt. He leaps into the sky. The buck ______ in this way, leaping from star to star. Whenever you see a shooting star, the buck is running.

Written Review Look back at the illustrations of the stars in the selection. Write a caption for each picture. Use at least four vocabulary words.

Illustration of a pen icon Write About the Guiding Question

Explore the Power of the Stars

Why do people look for patterns in the stars and then create tales about those patterns? Support your explanation with examples from the text.