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Wherever you find foxes and bears in the world, you’ll likely also find folktales about their unique features and abilities. In this issue fox and bear are the stars of an entertaining “short tale” about how the bear got a “short tail!” In folklore the fox has typically been portrayed as a crafty trickster, while the bear is easily fooled by others. Assigning human characteristics to animals can help children relate to their own interactions with friends and playmates. Your budding reader will delight in this introduction to animal tales and discover why—according to legend—the bear has such a short stumpy tail. Every story has a lesson to be learned, and bear’s adventure with fox is no exception. What will your reader learn from these two entertaining creatures?
In this issue students will:
- Read a folktale about bear’s tail
- Understand the difference between fiction and non-fiction
- Learn about the “moral of a story”
- Read a story to sequence events from beginning to end
- Select the correct prefix to create new words
- Use the newspaper to locate prefixes and suffixes
- Learn how prefixes and suffixes (affixes) can change word meaning
- Locate homophones in the news
- Follow written and visual instruction to exercise like an animal
- Write a quick book review of your favorite summer read
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