BLACK STALLION
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
What can a person learn by building a relationship with an animal?
Genre: Adventure
Target Vocabulary
piercing: loud and shrill sound
descended: moved to a lower place
savage: fierce and ferocious
quivered: trembled
delicacy: expensive, rare food
fitful: starting and stopping
heave: to lift with effort or force
dimishing: lessening, become smaller
rhythmic: repeat movement in regular sequence
marveling: to be filled with wonder
Comprehension Skill
What can a person learn by building a relationship with an animal?
Genre: Adventure
Target Vocabulary
piercing: loud and shrill sound
descended: moved to a lower place
savage: fierce and ferocious
quivered: trembled
delicacy: expensive, rare food
fitful: starting and stopping
heave: to lift with effort or force
dimishing: lessening, become smaller
rhythmic: repeat movement in regular sequence
marveling: to be filled with wonder
Comprehension Skill
- Story Structure- how the author organized important parts of the story, called story elements, including character, setting and plot. Setting includes where and when a story takes place. The plot is the story events, including a conflict, or problem, and its resolution. The resolution is how the conflict or problem in a story is solved. Understanding each element of a story helps readers understand the story as a whole.
- Characterization- authors try to create story characters that seem like real people with believable feelings, traits and personalities. Traits are ways of speaking and acting to show what a character is like. By examining a character's actions, words and thoughts, they can determine his or her motives or reasons for doing something. Authors often have characters grow and change during the course of a story.
- Theme- the big idea or lesson the author wants the reader to know.
- Question- Asks questions to yourself as you read to monitor your understanding.
Vocabulary Skill: Figurative Language
Eye on Idioms
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