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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS “La Bamba” from BASEBALL IN APRIL by Gary Soto. Copyright © 1990 by Gary Soto. Used by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. “Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind” from AMERICAN TALL TALES by Mary Pope Osborne. Copyright © 1991 by Mary Pope Osborne. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. “A Symphony of Trees” by Charles Ghigna from Children’s Digest, July/August 2004. Copyright © 2004 by Children’s Better Health Institute, Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, Inc. Used by permission of Children’s Better Health Institute, Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, Inc. “Who’s There?” from THE NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD by Arthur C. Clarke. Copyright © 1958 by United Newspapers Magazine Corporation. Used by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. “Barry: The Dog Who Saved People” by Margaret Davidson from GIVE A DOG A BONE: STORIES, POEMS, JOKES, AND RIDDLES ABOUT DOGS compiled by Joanna Cole and Stephanie Calmenson. Copyright © 1996 by Joanna Cole and Stephanie Calmenson. Used by permission of Scholastic Inc. “Close Encounters of the Bear Kind” by Susan Quinlan from Muse, November 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Carus Publishing Company. Used by permission of Carus Publishing Company.

“Snakebite” from RATTLESNAKE DANCE: TRUE TALES, MYSTERIES AND RATTLESNAKE CEREMONIES by Jennifer Owings Dewey. Copyright © 1997 by Jennifer Owings Dewey. Used by permission of Caroline House. Excerpt from ON THE MALL IN WASHINGTON, D.C.: A VISIT TO AMERICA’S FRONT YARD by Brent Ashabranner. Copyright © 2002 by Brent Ashabranner. Used by permission of Twenty-First Century Books. “Tradition” from UNDER THE SUNDAY TREE by Eloise Greenfield. Copyright © 1988 by Eloise Greenfield. Used by permission of Harper Trophy, a Division of HarperCollins Publishers. Excerpt from BORN TO BE A COWGIRL: A SPIRITED RIDE THROUGH THE OLD WEST by Candace Savage. Copyright © 2001 by Candace Savage. Used by permission of Tricycle Press. “Deborah Sampson: Patriot Soldier Disguised as a Man” from HEROINES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION by Diane Silcox-Jarrett. Copyright © 1998 by Green Angel Press. Used by permission of Green Angel Press. “Motivating Kids: A Visit with Kids Voting USA” by Meg Chorlian from Cobblestone, March 2004. Copyright © 2004 by Carus Publishing Company. Used by permission of Carus Publishing Company. Excerpt from DEAR WORLD: HOW CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD FEEL ABOUT OUR ENVIRONMENT, edited by Lannis Temple. Copyright © 1993 by Random House, Inc. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.

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CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Literature Selections La Bamba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Fiction by Gary Soto Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind

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A tall tale by Mary Pope Osborne

A Symphony of Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 A poem by Charles Ghigna

Who’s There? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Science fiction by Arthur C. Clarke Barry: The Dog Who Saved People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Narrative nonfiction by Margaret Davidson

Close Encounters of the Bear Kind

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Narrative nonfiction by Susan Quinlan

Snakebite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Autobiography by Jennifer Owings Dewey The Great Mall Memorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Nonfiction/Expository by Brent Ashabranner Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 A poem by Eloise Greenfield Born in the Saddle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 A biography by Candace Savage Deborah Sampson: Patriot Soldier Disguised as a Man . . . 60 Nonfiction/Expository by Diane Silcox-Jarrett

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A Visit with Kids Voting USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Nonfiction/Expository by Meg Chorlian Dear World: How Children Around the World Feel About Our Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Persuasive letters edited by Lannis Temple

Mojave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 A poem by Diane Siebert

If I Only Had a Brain: Artificial Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Nonfiction/Expository by Carol Sonenklar

The Mother of the Movement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 A poem by Carole Boston Weatherford

Ptooey! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Nonfiction/Expository by Linda Schneider

The Gettysburg Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 A persuasive speech by Abraham Lincoln

Nature’s Fury: For Better or Worse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Nonfiction/Expository by Stephen James O’Meara

The Hen and the Apple Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 A fable by Arnold Lobel

The Circle and the Poles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 A poem by J. Patrick Lewis

Looking Back at Vegetables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Nonfiction/Expository by Anne Mountfield

All But Blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 A poem by Walter de la Mare

Codemakers and Codebreakers Hall of Fame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Nonfiction/Expository by Paul B. Janeczko

How the Whale Got His Throat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 A pourquoi tale by Rudyard Kipling

Yeh-hsien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 A fairy tale retold by Judy Sierra

John Muir: Man of the Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 A biography by Ginger Wadsworth

The Seeing Stick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 A folktale retold by Jane Yolen

The Montgolfier Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 A biography by Bo Zaunders

The Microscope

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Plays and Choral Readings It Couldn’t Be Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 A Boy Named Abe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 A Thousand Miles to Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 The Golden Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Jane Addams and Hull House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 ‘Round the World with Nellie Bly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

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Index by Genre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

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INTERACTIVE

ANTHOLOGY with PLAYS Developing Listening Comprehension Read Alouds help to build students’ listening comprehension. This anthology offers selections from a variety of genres, including biography, fiction, folktales, nonfiction, primary sources, songs, and poetry, to share with students. Instruction is provided with each selection to develop specific comprehension strategies. Students are asked to set a purpose for listening, as well as to determine the author’s purpose for writing. Using the instruction provided, each Read Aloud becomes an enjoyable, purposeful learning experience.

What Makes a Read Aloud Interactive? With each selection, Teacher Think Alouds are provided to help you model the use of comprehension strategies during reading. Using Think Alouds allows students to listen and to observe how a good reader uses strategies to get meaning from text. After reading, students are given the opportunity to apply the comprehension strategy. Students are asked to “think aloud” as they apply the strategy. By listening to a Student Think Aloud, you can determine if the student is applying the comprehension strategy appropriately and with understanding. Think-Aloud Copying Masters included in the Read-Aloud Anthology provide sentence starters to help students “think aloud” about a strategy.  5IJOL"MPVE
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