Fantasy

by Erin Matthews
illustrated by
Bridget Starr Taylor

PAIRED
My Home
READ
 STRATEGIES & SKILLS
Comprehension Content Standards
Strategy: Visualize Social Studies
Skill: Key Details Geography

High-Frequency Words
down, out, up, very

Phonics
Short i Word count: 71**

Illustration Credit: Cover Bridget Starr Taylor.

**The total word count is based on words in the running text and headings only. Numerals and words
in captions, labels, diagrams, charts, and sidebars are not included.

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 Genre Fantasy

Essential Question
What is it like where you live?

by Erin Matthews
illustrated by Bridget Starr Taylor

PAIRED
My Home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
READ
We go on a trip.

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What can we see?

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We go up.
What can we see?
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We can see a cloud.
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We look out.
What can we see?
6
We can see a bird.
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We look down.
What can we see?
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We can see a farm.
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 We go very far.
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Our trip was fun!
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 Retell
Use the chart to retell
What Can We See?
Detail Detail Detail

Text Evidence
1. Look at page 5. What do Cat
and Mouse see first? Key Details
2. Look at page 9. Where are
Cat and Mouse now? Key Details
3. Is What Can We See?
nonfiction or fiction? Why? Genre

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 My
Home
Yves Marcoux/First Light/Getty Images

Genre Nonfiction

Compare Texts
Read about where some
children live.
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My home is in a city.

My home is in a town.
Celia Peterson/arabianEye/Getty Images, Ann Cutting/Botonica/Getty Images, Illustration: Natalia Vasques
 My home is on a farm.
Meiko Arquillos/UpperCut Images/Getty Images, Illustration: Natalia Vasques

Make Connections
Do Cat and Mouse see any of the
things in My Home? Text to Text
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 Purpose To share pictures of
places we live

What to Do
Step 1 Draw a picture of
your home.
Step 2 Draw a picture of the
street where you live.
Step 3 Label your pictures. Share
them with the class.

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 Literature Circles

Fiction

Setting
Where did the story take place?

Characters
Who are the main characters?

Sequence of Events
Tell what happened first, then,
next, and finally.