How I Spent My Summer Vacation Written and Illustrated by Mark Teague Skill: Sequence Genre: Realistic Fiction.

How I Spent My Summer VacationWritten and Illustrated by Mark

Teague

Skill: Sequence

Genre: Realistic Fiction

•cowboys

•imagination

•summer

•vacation

•visit

•west

Words to Know

More Words to Know

•cowhand•fantastic

•stampede•stubborn•wrangler

•cowboysworkers on a cattle

ranch

•imagination creation of the

mind

•summerseason

between spring and fall

•vacation a time of rest from school or business

•visitto go and see

•west the direction of the

sunset

I went to the beach this summer.

I went to the beach this summer.

Use your imagination when you read.

Use your imagination when you read.

The cowboys just finished their work for the evening.

The cowboys just finished

their work for the evening.

Sally will visit her grandmother this weekend.

Sally will visit her grandmother this weekend.

The sun always sets in the west.

The sun always sets in the west.

Where are you going for vacation?

Where are you going for vacation?

Let’s review our words. Watch carefully because they will flash on the screen for just a moment. We will clap as we spell the word.

west

cowboys

imagination

summer

vacation

visit

Spelling WordsShort Vowels

stampmathsmellfreshgettingstilldrag

bodylocknotcuffluckplusthink

Review Questions

p.32-381. What happens during the

stampede?2. When do the cattle stampede away?3. How does Wallace’s Old West

report end?4. How does the classroom story end?5. What does it mean when the

cowboys call Wallace a “true buckaroo”?

6. What part of his story is true?

Review Questions p16-31

1. Why is the boy taking a trip west?2. Why is the scene behind the boy (page

18) changing?3. Look at the picture on page 20. What is

strange or unusual about the picture?4. Where did the cowboys take the boy?5. What are some things that make you

realize this story is from Wallace’s imagination?

6. Name the events in the story as they have happened so far.

GREAT JOB!GREAT JOB!