Dare to be Great

Nothing Ever Happens on

90th Street90 Street

By Roni Schotter

Illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker

Question of the Day

• If you were asked to write a composition about life in your neighborhood, what details would you include?include?

Realistic Fiction

Contain:

• Characters who behave like real people.people.

• Characters with problems that might happen in real life.

Focus Skill (p. 438-439)Make Inferences

Objective of Focus Skill:

• To make inferences about text

• To support inferences with text • To support inferences with text evidence and personal experience

• Infer: to draw conclusions based on what you read.

What theWhat theAuthor SaysAuthor Says

What I What I Already KnowAlready Know

InferenceInference

Min looked at Sometimes, Min does not

her carwash

supplies and

scowled.

when I am

frustrated

or upset, I

scowl.

want to

wash any

more cars.

Genre Study

• Realistic Fiction has characters and events that are like people and events in real life.

• As you read our story this week, look for:• As you read our story this week, look for:

• 1) characters who have feelings that real people have

• 2) a main character who overcomes a challenge

Vocabulary

• hiatus

• embarked

• gourmet

• throng• embarked

• unimaginable

• extravagant

• precarious

hiatus

A hiatus is a break for a period of time between eventsevents

embarkedIf you have embarked on a journey, you have begun a new adventure.adventure.

unimaginable

If something is unimaginable, it is impossible to think that it think that it might happen or exist.

extravagant

Something extravagant is much more costly or elaborate than or elaborate than what is really needed.

gourmet

Gourmet is food that is expensive, rare, or carefully prepared.prepared.

throng

A throng is a crowd of people.

precarious

In a precarious situation, things are uncertain and can suddenly can suddenly become dangerous.