This color marks your location before or after a story.
What is the red ?
100
This genre fills Unit One with Folktales, Fables and Short Stories.
What is fiction?
100
The side of the page with questions and information.
What are side notes or side bars?
100
Green
What is the color denoting new vocabulary?
100
Whom Can You Count On? Is one of the Big Questions in the anthology.
What is Unit One's focus question?
200
We will connect to the folktale before reading.
What is a Quickwrite?
200
A great place to find titles, the type of genre and page numbers of the stories.
What is the Table of Contents?
200
Tan is used to highlight the text and help the reader think about a question.
What is the BQ sidebar question?
200
Yellow
What color is the new vocabulary highlighted in the text?
200
Questions are injected throughout the stories to help the reader focus on the Big Question. They are provided on the pages of the story.
Students will look to the right and left of the text to find them.
What are side bar questions?
300
Before you read the short story, Amigo Brothers, we will connect to the story.
What is partner talk?
300
The Wise Old Woman by Yoshiko Uchida.
What is a folktale?
300
Yoshiko Uchida and Piri Thomas are interesting authors to read about.
Read about these authors in this particular place.
What is a blue sidebar in the Before You Read section?
300
The new vocabulary is explained in two places in each story. A student may read the vocabulary before they read the story and get reminders while they read the story.
What is the green box on Before You Read and footnotes.
300
The Whom Can You Count on film, journal writing, and creating visual display were all a part of class this week.
What are activities we focused on this week?
400
Find out how two friends respond to a test of their friendship.
What is the purpose of reading The Amigo Brothers?
400
The Amigo Brothers by Piri Thomas.
What is a short story?
400
Knock-out,
elimination round,
and
sparring sessions are unusual vocabulary marked with a red numeral
in a particular place.
What is a footnote ?
400
There are five components to the description of each new vocabulary word.
What are pronunciations, parts of speech, definitions, page numbers and sentence usage.
400
Unit One is broken into three parts.
What are Friends and Family, Me Myself and I, and Extraordinary Individuals
500
In a folktale, The Wise Old Woman, the narrator is the person who tells the story. The story is told from the narrator's point of view.
What is the Literary Element focus for the folktale?
500
Fiction is writing about invented people, places, or events. Short fiction focuses on a small number of events or on just one event. Most include a setting, characters, plot, point of view, and theme.
What is the definition of fiction genre?
500
Purple or pink and blue are used to highlight two different types of skills. One is about the elements of fiction and the other about skill in reading.
What are literary elements and reading strategies?
500
Practicing vocabulary is important before a test. The anthology gives the reader a chance to practice after reading the story.
What is vocabulary practice on the After You Read page.
500
The Big Question is addressed in all of the stories in Unit One.
The reader will construct a series of answers which lead to deeper understanding of the literature. This section is completed After You Read.