As students reread, monitor their progress toward their individual fluency goals. Current Goal: 95–105 words correct per minute. End-of-Year Goal: 130 words correct per minute.

Review the description of sequence on p. 18. Students can complete Practice Book p. 8
on their own or as a class. Discuss the graphic organizer on the Practice Book page.
Point out that students should complete the phrases given for events 1, 2, and 5. They
will write their own sentences to describe the third and fourth events in the passage.

Have students read p. 30, paragraph 5, in which Miss Franny tells Opal about the time
she saw a bear in the library. Ask them to describe what happened first, next, and last.
(First, Miss Franny and the bear looked at each other. Then, the bear sniffed. Last, Miss
Franny lifted up a book.)

For additional instruction on sequence, see TR12.

An idiom is a phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the
ordinary meaning of the words that form it. Students can determine the meaning of an
idiom by figuring out what makes sense based on context.

Help students identify the idiom "has a large heart" on p. 28, paragraph 5, and use
context to decide what it means.

Ask small groups to read the last paragraph on p. 29, find the idiom "nose stuck in a
book," and write what it means. Then have them work together to write a list of other
idioms they know and the meanings. Groups can share their lists with the class.
To assess, make sure students understand that idioms have a nonliteral meaning.