UNIT 1 - Glencoe

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WARM-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Genre Focus: Informational Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Sally S. Stich Animal Attraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . . 6

READING WORKSHOP 1

Skill Lesson: Setting a Purpose for Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Consumer Reports 4 Kids Ballpark Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Web Article . . . 12

Amy Bertrand How He Did It: Health Advice, Kid-to-Kid . . Informational Text: Web Article . . . 20

WRITING WORKSHOP PART 1

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Applying Good Writing Traits: Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Grammar Link: Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

UNIT 1

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BIGQuestionQuestion Why Read? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Genre Focus: Informational Media

Reading Skills Focus Text and Literary ElementsSetting a Purpose for ReadingSkimming and ScanningUnderstanding GraphicsIdentifying Main Idea and

Supporting Details

Text FeaturesTitles and SubheadsProcessAuthor’s Purpose

Vocabulary Skills GrammarWord ReferencesMultiple-Meaning Words

Parts of SpeechVerbs

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READING WORKSHOP 2

Skill Lesson: Skimming and Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Kathryn R. Hoffman Messaging Mania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . . 34

Nancy Gibbs The Real Magic of Harry Potter . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . 42

READING WORKSHOP 3

Skill Lesson: Understanding Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Uncredited Make Your Own Kite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Instructions . . . 52

Jeff Smith from The Great Cow Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic Story . . . 58


Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Listening, Speaking, Viewing: Getting Information from Visuals . . . . . . . . 67

READING WORKSHOP 4

Skill Lesson: Identifying Main Idea and Supporting Details . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Gwendolyn Brooks To Young Readers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 72

Neil Gaiman Why Books Are Dangerous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Personal Essay . . . 78

COMPARING LITERATURE WORKSHOP

Comparing Literature: Author’s Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Judith Viorst The Southpaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 88

Mary Helen Ponce Concha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 93

WRAP-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Your Turn: Read and Apply Skills

Kristin Hunter The Scribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 102

Reading on Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Skills and Strategies Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

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WARM-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Genre Focus: Biography/Autobiography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Jim Haskins Madam C. J. Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Biography . . 119

READING WORKSHOP 1

Skill Lesson: Activating Prior Knowledge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Gary Soto The Jacket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Autobiography . . 130

Nikki Giovanni The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 139


Autobiographical Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Applying Good Writing Traits: Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Grammar Link: Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

UNIT 2

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BIGQuestionQuestion

What Brings Out the Best in You?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Genre Focus: Biography/Autobiography

Reading Skills Focus Literary ElementsActivating Prior KnowledgeConnectingPredictingQuestioning

NarratorPoint of ViewToneChronological Order

Vocabulary Skills GrammarSynonymsAntonymsNegating Prefi xesWord Choice

NounsPronouns

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READING WORKSHOP 2

Skill Lesson: Connecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Bill Littlefield Satchel Paige . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Biography . . 150

Sara Van Alstyne Allen Song for a Surf-Rider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 161

READING WORKSHOP 3

Skill Lesson: Predicting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

William Jay Jacobs Eleanor Roosevelt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Biography . . 168

Uncredited In Eleanor Roosevelt‘s Time . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Timeline . . 180


Autobiographical Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Listening, Speaking, Viewing: Active Listening in a Group Discussion . . . . 187

READING WORKSHOP 4

Skill Lesson: Questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Alice Park Gentleman of the Pool . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . 192

Judith Ortiz Cofer Primary Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Autobiography . . 198


Comparing Literature: Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Paul Zindel from The Pigman & Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Autobiography . . 211

Avi The Goodness of Matt Kaizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 221

WRAP-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236


Mary Whitebird Ta-Na-E-Ka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 238



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WARM-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Genre Focus: Persuasive Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Sojourner Truth And Ain’t I a Woman? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Speech . . 257

READING WORKSHOP 1

Skill Lesson: Distinguishing Fact and Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Richard Durbin Preserving a Great American Symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Speech . . 264

Elizabeth Partridge Looking for America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Essay . . 270


Persuasive Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Applying Good Writing Traits: Sentence Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Grammar Link: Adjectives and Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

UNIT 3

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BIGQuestionQuestion What’s Fair and What’s Not? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Genre Focus: Persuasive Writing

Reading Skills FocusDistinguishing Fact and OpinionClarifyingInferringIdentifying Problems and

Solutions

Vocabulary SkillsDenotation/ConnotationSynonyms and Shades

of MeaningSemantic Slanting

Literary ElementsAuthor’s StyleBiasArgumentMood

GrammarAdjectives AdverbsOther Parts

of Speech

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READING WORKSHOP 2

Skill Lesson: Clarifying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Uncredited Two Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . Functional Document: Advertisements . . 286

Cynthia Rylant Stray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 292

READING WORKSHOP 3

Skill Lesson: Inferring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Melanie Bertotto Dressed for Success? . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . 302

Sandra Cisneros Eleven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 308


Persuasive Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Listening, Speaking, Viewing: Effective Speaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

READING WORKSHOP 4

Skill Lesson: Identifying Problems and Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

The Earth from 50 Simple Things Kids Works Group Can Do to Save the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Book . . 322

Jane Yolen Greyling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 328


Comparing Literature: Conflict. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Marta Salinas The Scholarship Jacket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 339

Francisco Jiménez The Circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 347

WRAP-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356


Ray Bradbury All Summer in a Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 358



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WARM-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Genre Focus: Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Shel Silverstein Whatif . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 375

READING WORKSHOP 1

Skill Lesson: Visualizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Luis Omar Salinas My Father Is a Simple Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 380

Lensey Namioka The All-American Slurp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 386


Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Applying Good Writing Traits: Word Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Grammar Link: Complete Sentences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

?The

BIGQuestionQuestion What Makes You Who You Are? . . . . . . . . . 370

Genre Focus: Poetry

UNIT 4

Reading Skills FocusVisualizingRespondingInterpretingMonitoring Comprehension

Vocabulary SkillsContext Clues(Defi nition and Restatement,

Comparison and Contrast,Examples)

Literary ElementsPoetic FeaturesSound DevicesRhythm, Rhyme, and Meter Figurative Language

GrammarSentencesFragmentsSubject/PredicateDirect and Indirect

Objects

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READING WORKSHOP 2

Skill Lesson: Responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Maya Angelou Life Doesn’t Frighten Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 406

Toni Cade Bambara Geraldine Moore the Poet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 412

READING WORKSHOP 3

Skill Lesson: Interpreting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Pat Mora Same Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 424

Elizabeth Ellis Flowers and Freckle Cream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 430


Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Listening, Speaking, Viewing: Reading Poetry Aloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

READING WORKSHOP 4

Skill Lesson: Monitoring Comprehension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Robert Service The March of the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 444

Jordan Brown The Gene Scene . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . 452


Comparing Literature: Figurative Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

e. e. cummings maggie and milly and molly and may. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 461

Eloise Greenfield Daydreamers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 463

WRAP-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468


Lewis Carroll The Walrus and the Carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 470



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WARM-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Genre Focus: Short Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Rona Maynard The Fan Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 485

READING WORKSHOP 1

Skill Lesson: Drawing Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Will Eisner Street Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic Story . . 498

Uncredited What Kids Say About Bullying . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Web Article . . 510


Short Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Applying Good Writing Traits: Organization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Grammar Link: Independent and Dependent Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

UNIT 5

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BIGQuestionQuestion How Should You Deal with Bullies? . . . . . . 480

Genre Focus: Short Story

Reading Skills FocusDrawing ConclusionsUnderstanding Cause

and EffectIdentifying SequenceParaphrasing and

Summarizing

Vocabulary Skills Base Words Prefi xesSuffi xes Roots

Literary ElementsDialogueConfl ictPlotCharacterization

GrammarPhrasesIndependent and

Dependent ClausesCommas

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READING WORKSHOP 2

Skill Lesson: Understanding Cause and Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

Norma Fox Mazer Tuesday of the Other June . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 524

Stephen Spender My Parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 540

READING WORKSHOP 3

Skill Lesson: Identifying Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544

Richard Peck Priscilla and the Wimps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 548

Ritu Upadhyay and Andrea DeSimone Let the Bullies Beware . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . 556


Short Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562

Listening, Speaking, Viewing: Reading Aloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

READING WORKSHOP 4

Skill Lesson: Paraphrasing and Summarizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Ellen Conford Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 570

Jack Prelutsky The New Kid on the Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 583

READING ACROSS TEXTS WORKSHOP

Comparing Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

Jon Swartz Bullies in the Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . 589

Elizabeth Siris The Bully Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . 593

WRAP-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598


Charles J. Finger El Enano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 600



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WARM-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Genre Focus: Folktale, Fantasy, and Myth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618

Alice Low Persephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Myth . . 619

READING WORKSHOP 1

Skill Lesson: Activating Prior Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624

Thomas Fields-Meyer, Steve Helling, Lori Rozsa Hurricane Heroes . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . 628

Harold Courlander All Stories Are Anansi’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Folktale . . 636


Fable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642

Applying Good Writing Traits: Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644

Grammar Link: Compound and Complex Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

UNIT 6

?The

BIGQuestionQuestion What Makes a Hero? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .614

Genre Focus: Folktale, Fantasy, and Myth

Reading Skills FocusActivating Prior

KnowledgeClarifyingComparing

and ContrastingPredicting

Vocabulary SkillsCompound WordsBorrowed WordsWord Histories

Literary ElementsHeroCultural ContextThemeSetting

GrammarCapitalizationSentence CombiningRun-on SentencesCommas in Sentences

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Walker Brents The Twelve Labors of Hercules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Myth . . 650

Mary Pope Osborne Pecos Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Folktale . . 660

READING WORKSHOP 3

Skill Lesson: Comparing and Contrasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

John Gardner Dragon, Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fantasy . . 674

Jack London The King of Mazy May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 688


Fable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702

Listening, Speaking, Viewing: Storytelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705

READING WORKSHOP 4


Mary Steele Aunt Millicent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 710

Clifton Davis A Mason-Dixon Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Personal Essay . . 734


Comparing Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744

Toni Cade Bambara The Toad and the Donkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Folktale . . 748

Virginia Hamilton Doc Rabbit, Bruh Fox, and Tar Baby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Folktale . . 751

WRAP-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758


Alma Luz Villanueva The Sand Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fantasy . . 760



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WARM-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774

Genre Focus: Historical Fiction and Nonfiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776

San Francisco Chronicle The Great Radio Scare . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Historical News Article . . 777

READING WORKSHOP 1

Skill Lesson: Synthesizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782

Mildred D. Taylor The Gold Cadillac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 786

Sue Alexander Nadia the Willful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 806


Personal Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814

Applying Good Writing Traits: Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816

Grammar Link: Subject-Verb Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817

UNIT 7

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BIGQuestionQuestion What Can We Learn from Our Mistakes? . . 772

Genre Focus: Historical Fiction and Nonfiction

Reading Skills FocusSynthesizingIdentifying Main Idea and

Supporting DetailsEvaluatingInferring

Vocabulary SkillsBase Words and RootsLatin RootsGreek RootsAnglo-Saxon Origins

Literary ElementsSymbolNarratorDescriptionTime Order/Sequence

GrammarSubject-Verb

Agreement

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READING WORKSHOP 2

Skill Lesson: Identifying Main Idea and Supporting Details. . . . . . . . . . . 818

Yoshiko Uchida The Bracelet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 822

Dorothy M. Johnson Too Soon a Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Historical Fiction . . 832

READING WORKSHOP 3

Skill Lesson: Evaluating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840

Robert Cormier President Cleveland, Where Are You? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 844

David Fischer Nobody’s Perfect. . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . 860


Personal Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866

Listening, Speaking, Viewing: News Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869

READING WORKSHOP 4

Skill Lesson: Inferring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870

The Shutout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Historical Nonfiction . . 874

Donna L. Washington The Talking Skull. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Folktale . . 884


Comparing Author’s Credibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894

Jim Murphy from The Great Fire . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Historical Nonfiction . . 897

Justin and Fannie Belle Becker Letters About the Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Historical Document . . 905

WRAP-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910


Stan Sakai A Lesson in Courtesy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic Story . . 912



Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack, Jr.

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WARM-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 928

Genre Focus: Drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 930

Gary Soto from Novio Boy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama . . 931

READING WORKSHOP 1

Skill Lesson: Visualizing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 938

Kenneth Grahame The Reluctant Dragon, Scene 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama . . 942

Kenneth Grahame The Reluctant Dragon, Scene 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama . . 954


Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966

Applying Good Writing Traits: Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 968

Grammar Link: Apostrophes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969

UNIT 8

Reading Skills FocusVisualizingClarifyingSkimming and ScanningPredicting

Vocabulary SkillsDialect and SlangClipped WordsLiteral/Figurative MeaningsIdioms

Literary ElementsAct and SceneCharacterizationStage DirectionsSensory Imagery

GrammarHyphensSemicolonsColonsQuotation Marks

?The

BIGQuestionQuestion What Makes a Friend? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 926

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Fan Kissen Damon and Pythias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama . . 974

Joe Smith Charlie Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 988

READING WORKSHOP 3

Skill Lesson: Skimming and Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996

Eric Alter The Bully of Barksdale Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama . . 1000

Christina Hamlett Tales of the Tangled Tresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama . . 1016


Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1032

Listening, Speaking, Viewing: Oral Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035

READING WORKSHOP 4


Isaac Bashevis Singer Zlateh the Goat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 1040

Kevin Gray and Cindy Dampier Best of Buddies . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . 1052


Comparing Primary and Secondary Source Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1056

Catherine Clarke Fox Baby Hippo Orphan Finds a Friend . . . . . . . Informational Text: Web Site . . 1059

Stephen Tuei from The Caretaker’s Diary . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Web Journal . . 1063

WRAP-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1072


Robert Frost A Time to Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . 1074



FictionThe Southpaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88

Judith Viorst

Concha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Mary Helen Ponce

The Scribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Kristin Hunter

The Goodness of Matt Kaizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221Avi

Ta-Na-E-Ka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238Mary Whitebird

Stray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292Cynthia Rylant

Eleven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308Sandra Cisneros

Greyling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328Jane Yolen

The Scholarship Jacket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339Marta Salinas

The Circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347Francisco Jiménez

All Summer in a Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358Ray Bradbury

The All-American Slurp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386Lensey Namioka

Geraldine Moore the Poet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412Toni Cade Bambara

Flowers and Freckle Cream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430Elizabeth Ellis

The Fan Club. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485Rona Maynard

Tuesday of the Other June . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524Norma Fox Mazer

Priscilla and the Wimps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548Richard Peck

Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570Ellen Conford

El Enano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600Charles J. Finger

Dragon, Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674John Gardner

The King of Mazy May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Jack London

Aunt Millicent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710Mary Steele

The Sand Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760Alma Luz Villanueva

The Gold Cadillac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786Mildred D. Taylor

Nadia the Willful. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806Sue Alexander

The Bracelet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822Yoshiko Uchida

Too Soon a Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832Dorothy M. Johnson

President Cleveland, Where Are You? . . . . . . . . 844Robert Cormier

Charlie Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 988Joe Smith

Zlateh the Goat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1040Isaac Bashevis Singer

PoetryTo Young Readers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Gwendolyn Brooks

The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be . . . . . . . 139Nikki Giovanni

Song for a Surf-Rider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Sara Van Alstyne Allen

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Whatif . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375Shel Silverstein

My Father Is a Simple Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380Luis Omar Salinas

A Minor Bird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399Robert Frost

Life Doesn’t Frighten Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406Maya Angelou

Same Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424Pat Mora

The March of the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444Robert Service

maggie and milly and molly and may . . . . . . . . 461e. e. cummings

Daydreamers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463Eloise Greenfield

The Walrus and the Carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . 470Lewis Carroll

My Parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540Stephen Spender

The New Kid on the Block. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583Jack Prelutsky

A Time to Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1074Robert Frost

Dramafrom Novio Boy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931

Gary Soto

The Reluctant Dragon, Scene 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 942Kenneth Grahame

The Reluctant Dragon, Scene 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 954Kenneth Grahame

Damon and Pythias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 974Fan Kissen

The Bully of Barksdale Street . . . . . . . . . . . . 1000Eric Alter

Tale of the Tangled Tresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016Christina Hamlett

FolktalesPersephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619

Alice Low

All Stories Are Anansi’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636Harold Courlander

The Twelve Labors of Hercules . . . . . . . . . . . . 650Walker Brents

Pecos Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660Mary Pope Osborne

The Toad and the Donkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748Toni Cade Bambara

Doc Rabbit, Bruh Fox, and Tar Baby . . . . . . . . . 751Virginia Hamilton

The Talking Skull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884Donna L. Washington

Graphic Stories and Cartoons from The Great Cow Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Jeff Smith

Street Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498Will Eisner

A Lesson in Courtesy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912Stan Sakai

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Personal Essays Why Books Are Dangerous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Neil Gaiman

Looking for America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270Elizabeth Partridge

A Mason-Dixon Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734Clifton Davis

Biography, Autobiography, MemoirsMadam C. J. Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Jim Haskins

The Jacket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130Gary Soto

Satchel Paige. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150Bill Littlefield

Eleanor Roosevelt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168William Jay Jacobs

Primary Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198Judith Ortiz Cofer

from The Pigman & Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211Paul Zindel

Informational Texts Animal Attraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Sally S. Stich

Ballpark Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Consumer Reports 4 Kids

How He Did It: Health Advice, Kid-to-Kid . . . . . . . 20Amy Bertrand

Messaging Mania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Kathryn R. Hoffman

The Real Magic of Harry Potter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Nancy Gibbs

Make Your Own Kite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

In Eleanor Roosevelt’s Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Gentleman of the Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Alice Park

Dressed for Success? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302Melanie Bertotto

from 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322The EarthWorks Group

The Gene Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452Jordan Brown

What Kids Say About Bullying . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Let the Bullies Beware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556Ritu Upadhyay and Andrea DeSimone

Bullies in the Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589Jon Swartz

The Bully Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593Elizabeth Siris

Hurricane Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628Thomas Fields-Meyer, Steve Helling, and Lori Rosza

The Great Radio Scare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

Nobody’s Perfect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860David Fischer

The Shutout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack Jr.

from The Great Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897Jim Murphy

Best of Buddies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1052Kevin Gray and Cindy Dampier

Baby Hippo Orphan Finds a Friend . . . . . . . . . 1059Catherine Clarke Fox

from The Caretaker’s Diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063Stephen Tuei

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Historical Documents And Ain’t I a Woman? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Sojourner Truth

Preserving a Great American Symbol. . . . . . . . . 264Richard Durbin

Letters About the Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905Justin and Fannie Belle Becker

Functional Texts Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

READING SKILLS

Reading WorkshopsSetting a Purpose for Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Skimming and Scanning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Understanding Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48Identifying Main Idea and Supporting Details . . . . . 68Activating Prior Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126Connecting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146Predicting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164Questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188Distinguishing Fact and Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . 260Clarifying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282Inferring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298Identifying Problems and Solutions. . . . . . . . . . 318Visualizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376Responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402Interpreting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420Monitoring Comprehension. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440Drawing Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494Understanding Cause and Effect . . . . . . . . . . . 520Identifying Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544Paraphrasing and Summarizing. . . . . . . . . . . . 566Activating Prior Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624Clarifying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646Comparing and Contrasting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670Predicting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706Synthesizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782Identifying Main Idea and Supporting Details . . . . 818Evaluating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840Inferring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870Visualizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 938Clarifying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970Skimming and Scanning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996Predicting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1036

Reading Across TextsRead to Compare Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586Read for Author’s Credibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894Read to Compare Primary and Secondary Sources. . 1056

LITERATURE SKILLS

Literary ElementsText Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Titles and Subheads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Author’s Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Narrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Point of View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Chronological Order. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263Bias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301Repetition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307Mood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321Poetic Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379Rhyme, Rhythm, and Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405Sound Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423Figurative Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449Dialogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497Confl ict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569Hero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627Cultural Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649Theme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709Symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843Time Order/Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873Act and Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941Stage Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999Sensory Imagery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1039

Genre FocusInformational Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Biography/Autobiography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118Persuasive Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

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Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374Short Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484Folktale, Fantasy, and Myth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618Historical Fiction and Nonfi ction . . . . . . . . . . . 776Drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 930

Comparing LiteratureAuthor’s Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208Confl ict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336Figurative Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458Comparing Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744

VOCABULARY SKILLS

English Language CoachReferences and Multiple Meaning Words . . . . . Unit 1Synonyms and Antonyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 2Denotation, Connotation, and Semantic Slanting . . Unit 3Context Clues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 4Roots, Prefi xes, and Suffi xes . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 5Compound Words, Borrowed Words,

Word Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 6Word Roots (Latin, Greek, and Anglo-Saxon) . . . Unit 7Dialect and Slang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 8

WRITING SKILLS

Writing ProductsSummary 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Summary 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64Autobiographical Narrative 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142Autobiographical Narrative 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Persuasive Essay 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278Persuasive Essay 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314Poem 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398Poem 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436Short Story 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516Short Story 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562Fable 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642

Fable 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702Personal Narrative 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814Personal Narrative 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866Speech 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966Speech 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1032

Writing TraitsIdeas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144Sentence Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280Word Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 968

GRAMMAR SKILLS

Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 1Nouns and Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 2Adjectives, Adverbs, and Other Parts of Speech . . Unit 3Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 4Phrases, Clauses, and Commas . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 5Sentence Combining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 6Subject-Verb Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 7Hyphens, Colons, Semicolons,and Quotation Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 8

LISTENING, SPEAKING, AND VIEWING

Getting Information from Visuals . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Active Listening in a Group Discussion . . . . . . . . 187Effective Speaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317Reading Poetry Aloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439Reading Aloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565Storytelling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705News Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869Oral Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035

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