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WingsWingsAuthor: Christopher Meyers
Genre: FantasySkill: Cause and Effect
Author’s Purpose: Entertain
R 76 Sight Words
listen windrock spacecovered fastseveral holdhimself toward
Lesson Vocabulary
• Attention• Complained
• Drifting• Giggle• Glaring• Looping
• Struggled• Swooping
More Words to Know
•Gawk•Snickered
Attention•Careful thinking, looking, or listening
Complained
•Said that you are unhappy or annoyed or upset about
something
Drifting•Being carried along by its currents of air or water
Giggle•To laugh in a silly or uncontrolled way
Glaring•Staring angrily
Looping•Forming a line, path, or motion shaped so that it crosses itself
Struggled•Tried hard, worked
hard against difficulties
Swooping•Coming down fast on something
Gawk•To stare in a rude way
Snickered•Laughed in a sly,
silly way
•swooping
•giggle
•attention
•drifting
•Complained
•glaring
•struggled
•snickered
•gawk
• looping
Cause and Effect Signal Words
•CauseWhy something
happenedreasoncause
because
Effect
What happened•so
•consequently•therefore
•thus
R 35 Cause and Effect(TA WB. p. 38, 52)
(TC 31,34,43,46,103)
Effects:
The room was hot.The dog barked loudly.Many people were coughing.The trees were uprooted.
Causes:
Perfume was sprayed.A thunderstorm hit the town.The air conditioner was broken.A cat walked across the yard.
Review Questions
1. Why were the people pointing their fingers and shaking their heads?
2. What problems did Ikarus’s wings cause in the classroom?
3. What did the children do when Ikarus flew through the air on the playground?
4. How did the narrator know how Ikarus felt?
• 5. Where did Ikarus land?•6. What did the policeman
say to Ikarus?•7. How did the narrator
defend Ikarus after the policeman blew his whistle?
•8. When did Ikarus smile?•9. Who is the narrator’s new
friend?
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