Genre: Classic Fiction Author’s Purpose – Entertainment Reading Skill:

1. Genre: Classic Fiction Author’s Purpose – Entertainment Reading Skill: Drawing Conclusions Compiled by Terry Sams, Piedmont

2. Summary Rikki-tikki-tavi has a big job to do.  This mongoose must kill all the snakes that live in the house and garden of Teddy and his mother and father.  The largest snakes are two cobras, Nag and Nagaina, who want to kill everyone in the family so that they and their babies will have the garden all to themselves.  He tricks the adult snakes, feeds their eggs to the ants, and succeeds in killing them all.  Teddy's grateful family rewards Rikki with all he can eat, and Rikki himself is proud and satisfied with his success.

3. Classic Fiction Classical literature is a term used to describe fiction and other works before the 20th century (?-1800s). This literature has been passed down through the ages because of its consistency and because it reflects the life and times of society when it was written. Examples: Oliver Twist, Robinson Crusoe, Dickens Christmas Carol, and Rikki-tikki-tavi

4. Comprehension Skill: Drawing Conclusions • As you read, look at the details and make decisions about the characters and what happens in the story or article. • When you make decisions about the characters or events, you are drawing conclusions. • Drawing conclusions is sometimes called making inferences.

5. Drawing Conclusions Practice TE 337a

6. Comprehension Skill Review: Making Judgments TE 337b • Making judgments means thinking about and deciding how to react toward people, situations, and ideas in stories you read. • Use what you have read and your own experiences as you make judgments. • Ask yourself if the author is trying to influence you and whether he succeeds.

7. Practice Making Judgments

8. Comprehension Skill –Unfamiliar Words • When you read, you may come across a word you do not know. • To figure out the meaning of the unfamiliar word, look for clues in the sentences or paragraph around it. • A clue might be found in specific details or examples given near the unknown word. • You can also use a dictionary to clarify word meanings

9. Time Day 3 before hatching Day 2 before hatching Day 1 before hatching Day of hatching Event Beak pierces inner sack Egg tooth chips away first hole. Bird rests. Baby bird pushes off cap of shell and pulls away from cracked shell. Research Skill – Schedules TE 337j The Birth of a Baby Bird

10. Personification TE 337i • Personification is a figure of speech in which human traits or characteristics are given to nonhuman things. • Personification makes a story lively and dramatic. Examples: Animals talking or Rikki “tingling with rage.”

11. Weekly FluencyCheck - Read with Expression TE337d • Model or review ways to read with expression by using loudness and softness to add expression and by changing voices to differentiate between speakers. • Readers should use different voices to distinguish between Nag and Nagaina. • Go to pages 324-325, beginning with “He crept to. . .”

12. Good Stuff • ABC Spelling words • Lesson plans • Vocabulary Match • Reading Test • Spelling Test • How Can Animals Help People? • Vocabulary Concentration

13. More Good Stuff • Encyclopedia on Cobras • Encyclopedia on Mongoose • India, Land of the Tiger • About the Author

14. Review #1a Pages 322-327 • How did Rikki come to live with the English family? • What kind of reputation does Rikki have? • What is Nag planning to do and why? • What can you tell about cobras from this story?

15. Review #2a Pages 328-337 • Why does Darzee’s wife pretend her wing is broken? • How is Darzee different from his wife? • Why are Teddy and his parents sitting “stone still” at the table? • Why does Nagaina run away instead of finishing the fight?

16. Write About It Choose one of these and write about it: • Pretend you are Nagina. Write a paragraph that tells what you would say to stop Rikki from crushing the last egg from your brood. • What if Rikki met the pet your own pet? Write a paragraph describing the meeting between your pet and Rikki.

17. Names to Know! • Nag and Nagaina (the cobras) • Chuchundra (muskrat) • Rikki-tikki-tavi (mongoose) • Darzee and his wife (tailor birds)

18. Words to Know cobra coiled lame plunged triumph

19. More Words to Know! • mongoose • scornfully • singed • thunderclap • valiant

20. cobra • a big, poisonous, scary snake

21. coiled • wound around into a pile or a curl

22. lame • unable to walk properly

23. triumph • victory; success

24. plunged • threw with force into something

25. mongoose • a slender animal noted for its ability to kill poisonous snakes

26. scornfully • showing contempt; mockingly

27. thunderclap • a loud crash of thunder

28. valiant • brave; courageous

29. singed • burned a little

30. The ball plunged into the water with a huge splash.

31. The ball plunged into the water with a huge splash.

32. The thunderclap was sudden and loud in the sky.

33. The thunderclap was sudden and loud in the sky.

34. Rikki was very valiant in his fight against Nag and Nagina.

35. Rikki was very valiant in his fight against Nag and Nagina.

36. The cobra struck at Rikki!

37. The cobra struck at Rikki!

38. The teacher was lame due to an accident.

39. The teacher was lame due to an accident.

40. The toast was singed around the edges.

41. The toast was singed around the edges.

42. Winning the money was a great triumph for me.

43. Winning the money was a great triumph for me.

44. The mongoose is a very smart animal.

45. The mongoose is a very smart animal.

46. The snake was coiled up in the pot.

47. The snake was coiled up in the pot.

48. Nagiana scornfully snarled at Rikki.

49. Nagiana scornfully snarled at Rikki.

50. Spelling WordsVowels in Final Syllables • other • number • October • another • color • doctor • motor • people • simple • angle