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

William M. Hendryx Flash Flood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . . . 5

READING WORKSHOP 1

Skill Lesson: Setting a Purpose for Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Lew Freedman Paddling Dicey Waters . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Newspaper Article . . . .16

Gary Soto Seventh Grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . .26

WRITING WORKSHOP PART 1

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Applying Good Writing Traits: Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Grammar Link: Action and Linking Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

UNIT 1

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BIGQuestionQuestion Why Do We Read? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Genre Focus: Informational Media

Reading Skills Focus Text ElementsSetting a Purpose for ReadingPreviewingReviewingUnderstanding Text Structure

Photos and IllustrationsTitles, Heads, and

DecksLeadText Features

Vocabulary Skills GrammarContext Clues(Defi nition and Restatement,Comparison and Contrast,Examples)

Verbs

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READING WORKSHOP 2

Skill Lesson: Previewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Jack Anderson Where You Are . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 42

Ericka Sóuter and Dietlind Lerner Message of Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Magazine Article . . . 48

READING WORKSHOP 3

Skill Lesson: Reviewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Lesley Reed Teaching Nepalis to Read, Plant,

and Vote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . . .58

Marjorie Sharmat May I Have Your Autograph? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 66

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Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74

Listening, Speaking, and Viewing: Giving and Following Directions . . . . . . .77

READING WORKSHOP 4

Skill Lesson: Understanding Text Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Jane Yolen Suzy and Leah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 82

The editors of Consumer Guide from How Things Work . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Reference Book . . . 96

COMPARING LITERATURE WORKSHOP

Comparing Literature: Theme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Michael Dorris Summer Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Personal Essay . . . 105

Rita Dove The First Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 109

WRAP-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Your Turn: Read and Apply Skills

Paul Zindel The Day It Rained Cockroaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Autobiography . . . 114 from The Pigman and Me

Reading on Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Skills and Strategies Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

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Genre Focus: Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Steve Pittman Tony Hawk: Chairman of the Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Biography . . . 133

READING WORKSHOP 1

Skill Lesson: Activating Prior Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins from Rosa Parks: My Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Autobiography . . . 140

Barbara A. Lewis Kids in Action: Dalie Jimenez . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Book Chapter . . . 148

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Autobiographical Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Grammar Link: Kinds of Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

UNIT 2

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BIGQuestionQuestion

How Can We Become Who We Want to Be? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128

Genre Focus: Biography

Reading Skills Focus Literary ElementsActivating Prior KnowledgeConnectingInferringIdentifying Sequence

NarratorPoint of ViewSettingSensory Details

Vocabulary Skills GrammarMultiple-Meaning WordsWord References

NounsPronouns

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Skill Lesson: Connecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Judith Ortiz Cofer An Hour with Abuelo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 160

Lavendhri Pillay Toward a Rainbow Nation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Autobiography . . . 170

READING WORKSHOP 3

Skill Lesson: Making Inferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Maya Angelou New Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Biography . . . 180

Toni Cade Bambara The War of the Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 188

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Autobiographical Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Applying Good Writing Traits: Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Listening, Speaking, and Viewing: Group Discussion and Active Listening . . 203

READING WORKSHOP 4

Skill Lesson: Identifying Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Ji-li Jiang from Red Scarf Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Memoir . . . 208

Christina Cheakalos and Matt Birkbeck Miracle Hands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Magazine Article . . . 218

COMPARING LITERATURE WORKSHOP

Comparing Literature: Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Ernesto Galarza from Barrio Boy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Autobiography . . . 225

Gregory Djanikian How I Learned English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 232

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

Your Turn: Read and Apply Skills

Robert L. Fontaine Graduation Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . One-Act Play . . . 238

Reading on Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Skills and Strategies Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

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Genre Focus: Short Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Gary Soto Broken Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 255

READING WORKSHOP 1

Skill Lesson: Drawing Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Glencoe Teen Health Friendships and Peer Pressure . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Textbook . . . 270

Piri Thomas Amigo Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 278

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Short Fictional Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Applying Good Writing Traits: Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Grammar Link: Adjectives and Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

UNIT 3

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BIGQuestionQuestion Who Can We Really Count On? . . . . . . . . . . 250

Genre Focus: Short Story

Reading Skills FocusDrawing ConclusionsRespondingSynthesizingDetermining the Main Idea

Vocabulary SkillsSynonymsAntonyms Word Choice

Literary ElementsConfl ictDialogueCharacterPlot

GrammarAdjectives AdverbsPrepositions Interjections

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Skill Lesson: Responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Don Wulffson Framed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 302

O. Henry After Twenty Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 312

READING WORKSHOP 3

Skill Lesson: Synthesizing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Aimee Bender Loser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 324

Sari Locker Friends Forever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Magazine Article . . . 334

WRITING WORKSHOP PART 2

Short Fictional Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Listening, Speaking, and Viewing: Reading Aloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

READING WORKSHOP 4

Skill Lesson: Determining the Main Idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

René Saldaña, Jr. The Good Samaritan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 350

Henry and Melissa Billings The Brink’s Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Textbook . . . 362

COMPARING LITERATURE WORKSHOP

Comparing Literature: Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Joan Aiken Lob’s Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 371

Alfred Noyes The Highwayman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 386

WRAP-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Your Turn: Read and Apply Skills

Gwendolyn Brooks Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 396

Margaret Danner I’ll Walk the Tightrope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 399

Reading on Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Skills and Strategies Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

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Genre Focus: Persuasive Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Denver Post Violence in Hockey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editorial . . . 414

READING WORKSHOP 1

Skill Lesson: Understanding Persuasive Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Clay Bennett 3BCB: Three by Clay Bennett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editorial Cartoons . . . 420

Langston Hughes Thank You, M’am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 426

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Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Grammar Link: Complete Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

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BIGQuestionQuestion

Who Infl uences Us and How Do They Do So?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Genre Focus: Persuasive Writing

UNIT 4

Reading Skills FocusUnderstanding Persuasive TechniquesDistinguishing Fact and OpinionIdentifying Author’s Purpose and

PerspectiveUnderstanding Text Structure:

Compare and Contrast

Vocabulary SkillsDenotationConnotation

Semantic Slanting

Literary ElementsStyleToneDictionArgument

GrammarSentences

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Skill Lesson: Distinguishing Fact and Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Sheila Globus What Exercise Can Do for You . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Textbook . . . 442

Sidney Poitier Oprah Winfrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Magazine Article . . . 450

READING WORKSHOP 3

Skill Lesson: Identifying Author’s Purpose and Perspective . . . . . . . . . . 454

Edna St. Vincent Millay The Courage That My Mother Had. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 458

Eve Merriam Two People I Want to Be Like . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 459

Volunteers Welcome! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Brochure . . . 464

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Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Applying Good Writing Traits: Word Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Listening, Speaking, and Viewing: Persuasive Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

READING WORKSHOP 4

Skill Lesson: Using Text Structure: Compare and Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . 474

John Yinger and Matthew Spalding Should Naturalized Citizens Be President? Informational Text: Magazine Article 478

Nicholas Gage The Teacher Who Changed My Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Personal Essay . . . 484

READING ACROSS TEXTS WORKSHOP

Reading for Persuasive Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Sheila Globus Take the Junk Out of Marketing Food to Kids . . . . . . . . . . . . Editorial . . . 497

uncredited Grainies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cereal Box . . . 500

WRAP-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Your Turn: Read and Apply Skills

Robert Service The Cremation of Sam McGee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 506

Reading on Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

Skills and Strategies Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

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Genre Focus: Science and Technology Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

Hip-Hop from The Story of Music . . . . .Informational Text: Reference Book . . . 525

READING WORKSHOP 1

Skill Lesson: Paraphrasing and Summarizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

Lensey Namioka LAFFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . 532

Cindy Kauffman Cyber Chitchat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Personal Essay . . . 546

WRITING WORKSHOP PART 1

Research Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Grammar Link: Main and Subordinate Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

UNIT 5

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BIGQuestionQuestion Is Progress Always Good? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

Genre Focus: Science and Technology Writing

Reading Skills FocusParaphrasing and SummarizingUsing Text FeaturesTaking NotesUnderstanding Text Structure:

Problem/Solution

Vocabulary Skills Structural Analysis (Base

words, suffi xes, prefi xes)Content-Area Words

Literary ElementsAuthor’s CraftConcept and

Defi nitionOrganizationDescription

GrammarClausesPhrasesCommas

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READING WORKSHOP 2

Skill Lesson: Using Text Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

Glencoe Science Conserving Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Textbook . . . 560

Ray Bradbury There Will Come Soft Rains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 568

READING WORKSHOP 3

Skill Lesson: Taking Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578 Maryanne Murray Buechner and Mitch Frank The Next Big Thing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Magazine Article . . . 582

Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Song Lyrics . . . 592

WRITING WORKSHOP PART 2

Research Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Applying Good Writing Traits: Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

Listening, Speaking, and Viewing: Oral Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

READING WORKSHOP 4

Skill Lesson: Identifying Problem and Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

J. Madeleine Nash Fireproofing the Forests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Magazine Article . . . 606

Claire Miller Missing! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Web Article . . . 616

Joseph Bruchac Birdfoot’s Grampa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 619

READING ACROSS TEXTS WORKSHOP

Reading for Author’s Craft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622

Andrew A. Rooney America the Not-So-Beautiful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Personal Essay . . . 625

Kathryn Sullivan A Glimpse of Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Personal Essay . . . 630

WRAP-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634

Your Turn: Read and Apply Skills

Isaac Asimov Key Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 636

Reading on Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640

Skills and Strategies Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642

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Genre Focus: Folktale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652

Julius Lester Brer Rabbit and Brer Lion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Folktale . . . 654

READING WORKSHOP 1

Skill Lesson: Understanding Cause and Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

Phyllis Savory The Lion, the Hare, and the Hyena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Folktale . . . 660

Shirley Jackson Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 668

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Modern Folktale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676

Grammar Link: Compound and Complex Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679

UNIT 6

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BIGQuestionQuestion Why Do We Share Our Stories? . . . . . . . . . . 648

Genre Focus: Folktale

Reading Skills FocusUnderstanding Cause and EffectQuestioningPredictingAnalyzing

Vocabulary SkillsIdiomsSlangDialogueLiteral and Metaphoric

Word Meanings

Literary ElementsThemeCharacter and

CharacterizationCultural AllusionsDialect

GrammarObjectsCompound and Complex

SentencesCommas

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READING WORKSHOP 2

Skill Lesson: Questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

Rudolfo A. Anaya The Boy and His Grandfather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Folktale . . . 684

Walter Dean Myers Jeremiah’s Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 690

READING WORKSHOP 3

Skill Lesson: Predicting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702

Mark Crilley The Tale of ‘Kiko-Wiko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic Story . . . 706

Laurence Yep We Are All One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Folktale . . . 716

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Modern Folktale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724

Applying Good Writing Traits: Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726

Listening, Speaking, and Viewing: Storytelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729

READING WORKSHOP 4

Skill Lesson: Analyzing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730

Kathryn Satterfield Voices—and Stories—from the Past . . . . . . . . . Magazine Article . . . 734

Judith Ortiz Cofer Aunty Misery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Folktale . . . 742

COMPARING LITERATURE WORKSHOP

Comparing Literature: Cultural Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748

Langston Hughes Aunt Sue’s Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 751

Li-Young Lee I Ask My Mother to Sing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 753

WRAP-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756

Your Turn: Read and Apply Skills

Audrey Wood The Bunyans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Folktale . . . 758

Reading on Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762

Skills and Strategies Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764

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Contents

WARM-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772

Genre Focus: Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774

James Berry One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 775

READING WORKSHOP 1

Skill Lesson: Evaluating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776

Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 780

Julia Alvarez Names/Nombres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Autobiography . . . 786

WRITING WORKSHOP PART 1

Poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794

Applying Good Writing Traits: Word Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796

Grammar Link: Subject-Verb Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797

READING WORKSHOP 2

Skill Lesson: Interpreting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798

UNIT 7

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BIGQuestionQuestion What Makes You Tick? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770

Genre Focus: Poetry

Reading Skills FocusEvaluating InterpretingMonitoring ComprehensionConnecting

Vocabulary Skills Structural Analysis: Latin,

Anglo-Saxon, and Greek Roots

Word Origins

Literary ElementsSound DevicesSymbolismRhyme, Rhythm, and

MeterFigurative Language

GrammarSubject-Verb

Agreement

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Nikki Grimes Diondra Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 802

Janet S. Wong Face It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 810

Arnold Adoff Almost Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 811

READING WORKSHOP 3

Skill Lesson: Monitoring Comprehension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814

Walt Whitman Miracles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 818

Robert Frost The Pasture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 819

Elizabeth Wellington Reading, Writing, Rapping . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Web Article . . . 824

WRITING WORKSHOP PART 2

Poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830

Listening, Speaking, and Viewing: Poetry Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833

READING WORKSHOP 4

Skill Lesson: Connecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834

Jean Little Growing Pains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 838

Claudia Wallis What Makes Teens Tick? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Magazine Article . . . 844

COMPARING LITERATURE WORKSHOP

Comparing Literature: Figurative Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852

Lillian Morrison The Women’s 400 Meters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 855

Frank Horne To James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 856

Yusef Komunyakaa Slam, Dunk, & Hook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 858

WRAP-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862

Your Turn: Read and Apply Skills

Tracy Eberhart and Robert A. Barnett The Giggle Prescription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Magazine Article . . . 864

Ogden Nash The Carcajou and the Kincajou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 867

The Termite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 867

Reading on Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 868

Skills and Strategies Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870

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WARM-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 878

Genre Focus: Historical Documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880

Linda Meyers Donelson It Was Not My Finest Hour . . . . . . Informational Text: Historical Document . . . 881

READING WORKSHOP 1

Skill Lesson: Visualizing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884

Collected by Basil Davidson Kingdoms of Gold and Salt . . . . . . Informational Text: Historical Document . . 888

Borden Deal Antaeus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short Story . . . 894

WRITING WORKSHOP PART 1

Descriptive Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 908

Applying Good Writing Traits: Sentence Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910

Grammar Link: Apostrophes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911

UNIT 8

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BIGQuestionQuestion What Is a Community? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .876

Genre Focus: Historical Documents

Reading Skills FocusVisualizingSkimming and ScanningClarifyingPredicting

Vocabulary Skills Compound WordsBorrowed WordsAcronymsAbbreviations

Historical Infl uences on English

Literary ElementsImageryOrganizationFigurative LanguageTeleplay

GrammarPunctuation

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READING WORKSHOP 2

Skill Lesson: Skimming and Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912

Getting There . . . . . . . . . . Functional Documents: Train Schedule and Map . . . 916

Graeme Davis Letters from Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Magazine Article . . . 922

READING WORKSHOP 3

Skill Lesson: Clarifying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 930

Amanda Hinnant Ah, Wilderness! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Magazine Article . . . 934

from The Contemporary Photographing History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Textbook . . . 942 Reader

WRITING WORKSHOP PART 2

Descriptive Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948

Listening, Speaking, and Viewing: Visuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951

READING WORKSHOP 4

Skill Lesson: Predicting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 952

Rod Serling The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street: Act 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama . . . 956

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street: Act 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama . . . 970

READING ACROSS TEXTS WORKSHOP

Reading for Author’s Credibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 982

Jerrilyn Jacobs Teacher Hero: Erin Gruwell . . . . . . . . . . . Informational Text: Web Article . . . 985

Zlata Filipovic from Zlata’s Diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diary . . . 989

WRAP-UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996

Your Turn: Read and Apply Skills

Mary TallMountain There Is No Word for Goodbye. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . 998

Reading on Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1000

Skills and Strategies Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002

FictionSeventh Grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Gary Soto

May I Have Your Autograph? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Marjorie Sharmat

Suzy and Leah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82Jane Yolen

An Hour with Abuelo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160Judith Ortiz Cofer

The War of the Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188Toni Cade Bambara

Broken Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255Gary Soto

Amigo Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278Piri Thomas

Framed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302Don Wulffson

After Twenty Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312O. Henry

Loser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324Aimee Bender

The Good Samaritan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350René Saldaña, Jr.

Lob’s Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371Joan Aiken

Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396Gwendolyn Brooks

Thank You, M’am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426Langston Hughes

LAFFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532Lensey Namioka

There Will Come Soft Rains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568Ray Bradbury

Key Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636Isaac Asimov

Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668Shirley Jackson

Jeremiah’s Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690Walter Dean Myers

Diondra Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802Nikki Grimes

Antaeus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894Borden Deal

PoetryWhere You Are . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Jack Anderson

The First Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109Rita Dove

How I Learned English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232Gregory Djanikian

The Highwayman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386Alfred Noyes

I’ll Walk the Tightrope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399Margaret Danner

The Courage That My Mother Had . . . . . . . . . . 458Edna St. Vincent Millay

Two People I Want to Be Like . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459Eve Merriam

The Cremation of Sam McGee . . . . . . . . . . . . 506Robert Service

Big Yellow Taxi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592Joni Mitchell

Birdfoot’s Grampa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619Joseph Bruchac

Aunt Sue’s Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751Langston Hughes

I Ask My Mother to Sing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753Li-Young Lee

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Selections by Genre

One. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775James Berry

Annabel Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780Edgar Allan Poe

Face It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810Janet S. Wong

Almost Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811Arnold Adoff

Miracles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818Walt Whitman

The Pasture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819Robert Frost

Growing Pains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838Jean Little

The Women’s 400 Meters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855Lillian Morrison

To James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856Frank Horne

Slam, Dunk, & Hook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858Yusef Komunyakaa

The Carcajou and the Kincajou . . . . . . . . . . . . 867Ogden Nash

The Termite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867Ogden Nash

There Is No Word for Goodbye . . . . . . . . . . . . 998Mary TallMountain

DramaGraduation Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Robert L. Fontaine

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street . . . . . . . 956Rod Serling

FolktalesBrer Rabbit and Brer Lion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654

Julius Lester

The Lion, the Hare, and the Hyena . . . . . . . . . . 660Phyllis Savory

The Boy and His Grandfather . . . . . . . . . . . . 684Rudolfo A. Anaya

We Are All One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716Laurence Yep

Aunty Misery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742Judith Ortiz Cofer

The Bunyans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758 Audrey Wood

Graphic Stories and Cartoons 3BCB: Three by Clay Bennett . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Clay Bennett

The Tale of ’Kiko-Wiko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706Mark Crilley

Personal Essays Summer Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Michael Dorris

The Teacher Who Changed My Life. . . . . . . . . . 484Nicholas Gage

Cyber Chitchat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546Cindy Kauffman

America the Not-So-Beautiful . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625Andrew A. Rooney

A Glimpse of Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630Kathryn Sullivan

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Selections by Genre

Biography, Autobiography, Memoirs, LettersThe Day It Rained Cockroaches . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Paul Zindel from The Pigman and Me

Tony Hawk: Chairman of the Board . . . . . . . . . 133Steve Pittman

Rosa Parks: My Story, from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins

Toward a Rainbow Nation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170Lavendhri Pillay

New Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180Maya Angelou

Red Scarf Girl, from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208Ji-li Jiang

Barrio Boy, from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Ernesto Galarza

Names/Nombres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786Julia Alvarez

Zlata’s Diary, from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 989 Zlata Filipovic

Informational Texts Flash Flood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

William M. Hendryx

Paddling Dicey Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Lew Freedman

Message of Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48Ericka Souter and Dietlind Lerner

Teaching Nepalis to Read, Plant, and Vote . . . . . . . 58Lesley Reed

How Things Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96the editors of Consumer Guide

Kids in Action: Dalie Jimenez . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148Barbara A. Lewis

Miracle Hands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218Christina Cheakalos and Matt Birkbeck

Friendships and Peer Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . 270from Glencoe Teen Health

Friends Forever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334Sari Locker

The Brink’s Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362Henry Billings and Melissa Billings

Violence in Hockey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414from Denver Post

What Exercise Can Do for You . . . . . . . . . . . . 442Sheila Globus

Oprah Winfrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450Sidney Poitier

Volunteers Welcome! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Should Naturalized Citizens Be President? . . . . . . 478John Yinger and Matthew Spalding

Take the Junk Out of Marketing Food to Kids . . . . 497Sheila Globus

Hip Hop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525from The Story of Music

Conserving Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560from Glencoe Science

The Next Big Thing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582Maryanne Murray Buechner and Mitch Frank

Fireproofi ng the Forests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606J. Madeleine Nash

Missing! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616Claire Miller

Voices—and Stories—from the Past . . . . . . . . . . 734Kathryn Satterfield

Reading, Writing, Rapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824Elizabeth Wellington

What Makes Teens Tick?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844Claudia Wallis

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The Giggle Prescription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 864Tracy Eberhart and Robert A. Barnett

Letters from Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922Graeme Davis

Ah, Wilderness! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 934Amanda Hinnant

Teacher Hero: Erin Gruwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 985Jerrilyn Jacobs

Historical DocumentsIt Was Not My Finest Hour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881

Linda Meyers Donelson

Kingdoms of Gold and Salt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888Collected by Basil Davidson

Photographing History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 942from The Contemporary Reader

Functional Documents Grainies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Train Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916

The Greentown Arena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 917

READING SKILLS

Reading WorkshopsSetting a Purpose for Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Previewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Reviewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54Understanding Text Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78Activating Prior Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Connecting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156Making Inferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176Identifying Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204Drawing Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266Responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298Synthesizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320Determining the Main Idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346Understanding Persuasive Techniques . . . . . . . . 416Distinguishing Fact and Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . 438Identifying Author’s Purpose and Perspective . . . . 454Using Text Structure: Compare and Contrast. . . . . 474Paraphrasing and Summarizing. . . . . . . . . . . . 528Using Text Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556Taking Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578Identifying Problem and Solution. . . . . . . . . . . 602Understanding Cause and Effect . . . . . . . . . . . 656Questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680Predicting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702Analyzing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730Evaluating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776Interpreting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798Monitoring Comprehension. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814Connecting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834Visualizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884Skimming and Scanning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912Clarifying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 930Predicting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 952

Reading Across TextsRead for Persuasive Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . 494Read for Author’s Craft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622Read for Author’s Credibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 982

LITERATURE SKILLS

Literary and Text ElementsPhotographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Theme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Titles, Heads, and Decks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Lead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Text Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Narrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139Point of View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Sensory Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207Confl ict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277Dialogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323Nonfi ction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441Diction, Language, and Word Choice . . . . . . . . . 457Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477Hyperbole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483Author’s Craft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531Concept and Defi nition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683Cultural Allusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705Dialect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733Sound Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779Figurative Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785Symbolism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801Rhyme, Rhythm, and Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817Imagery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887Teleplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955

Genre FocusInformational Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Short Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

READING SKILLS

Reading Workshopsi f di

LITERATURE SKILLS

Literary and Text Elementsh h

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Persuasive Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412Science and Technology Writing . . . . . . . . . . . 524Folktale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774Historical Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880

Comparing LiteratureTheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368Cultural Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748Figurative Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852

VOCABULARY SKILLS

English Language CoachContext Clues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 1Multiple-Meaning Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 2Word References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 2Synonyms, Antonyms, Word Choice . . . . . . . . Unit 3Denotation, Connotation, and Semantic Slanting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 4Structural Analysis and Content-Area Words (Base words, Roots, Suffi xes, Prefi xes) . . . . . Unit 5Idioms, Slang, Dialogue, Literal and Metaphoric Word Meanings . . . . . Unit 6Structural Analysis (Latin, Anglo-Saxon, and Greek roots) . . . . . Unit 7Compound Words, Borrowed Words, Acronyms, Abbreviations, Historical Infl uences on English . Unit 8

WRITING SKILLS

Writing ProductsSummary 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Summary 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74Autobiographical Narrative 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Autobiographical Narrative 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198Short Fictional Story 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292Short Fictional Story 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340Editorial 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434Editorial 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Research Report 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552Research Report 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596Modern Folktale 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676Modern Folktale 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724Poem 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794Poem 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830Descriptive Writing 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 908Descriptive Writing 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948

Writing TraitsConventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294Word Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726Word Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796Sentence Fluency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910

GRAMMAR SKILLS

Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 1Nouns and Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 2Adjectives and Adverbs, Other Parts of Speech . . Unit 3Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 4Phrases and Clauses, Commas . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 5Compound and Complex Sentences, Commas,

Direct and Indirect Objects . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 6Subject-Verb Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 7Punctuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit 8

LISTENING, SPEAKING, AND VIEWING

Giving and Following Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Group Discussion and Active Listening . . . . . . . . 203Reading Aloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345Persuasive Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473Oral Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601Storytelling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729Poetry Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833Visuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951

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