Papa Tells Chita a Story

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Papa Tells Chita a Story

• AuthorElizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
• IllustratorFloyd Cooper

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Genre

• Historical Fiction-is a story that is set in the
  past and portrays people,places, and events that
  did happen or could have happened.

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Vocabulary

• Colonel a person with a certain rank, or
  position in an army.
• Soldier a person who serves in an army.
• Urgent in need of immediate action or
  attentionpressing.
• Brambles prickly plants or bushes

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Vocabulary Continued

• Stumbling moving in an unsteady way.
• Outstretched extended stretched forward.
• Weary tired

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Summarize

• Summarizing is telling the important events or
  ideas in a story in your own words.
• A good summary gives only the most important
  events or ideas in a story.
• You can use a story map to help you summarize a
  story.
• See following page for a blank story map.

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Story Map
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Questions to ask while reading

• What do you think is going to happen next?
• How would you feel about carrying the message?
• What types of animals do you think would live in
  a grassy field?
• Why do you think Majestic would not go into the
  swamp?
• Why do you think Papa keeps stopping when he
  tells the story?

• What would you do if an alligator was coming
  toward you?
• What are you thinking right now?
• Do you think this story really happened to Papa
  the way he is telling it? Why?
• How do you think Chita is feeling right now in
  the story?
• How do you think Papa felt when he saw the
  American Flag?

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Grammar

• Adjective is a word that describes a noun.
• An adjective can come before the noun it
  describes.
• An adjective can also follow a verb such as is or
  seems.