Preview the selection by looking at the title and illustration. What do you think might be the conflict in the story?

Now read A Blazing Rescue on pages 80 to 84 in Literacy in Action 6B.

Use the reading strategies of predicting and inferring as you read the story.

Making Connections

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Now you will practise the strategy of making connections.

Making connections to other stories is one way to understand and remember new stories. You can also make connections to your own experiences and to events in the real world. These are often called: text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world.

In a realistic story, the main character is portrayed as a real person, so if you can make connections to that character, it will help you understand the story.
What connections can you make between the story and a personal experience you had, or other stories you have read or seen?
Complete the Assignment 5-3 worksheet.

Analyzing the Selection

After completing the Assignment 5-3, think about answers for the questions below.  These are not for marks, but will help you in the next lesson.                 

• Why do you think the author chose the boy to tell the story?
• As the story was read, what was the main character thinking and feeling?
• Whose ideas and feelings were not included? What might he or she have been thinking or feeling?
• What life lessons and themes do you think the author hopes the reader gets from the story?

How to save a file:

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1. Have the file open and select Save As from the File menu.
2. Name your Assignment 5-3 in this format: jsmithla6_5-3-rescue and save the file to your Documents folder.

Summative Assessment

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1. This worksheet is for marks.
2.  Save it in your Documents folder and when it is completed, submit it.