1. The Blind Hunter By: Mrs. Breeding

2. Genre Realistic Fiction -Made-up story that could have happened in real life.

3. Strategy Generate Questions -As you read you should ask yourselves questions to help you understand the story.

4. Skill Draw Conclusions -Use clues from the text to draw conclusions about the plot and the characters.

5. Grammar Subject Pronoun -use a subject pronoun as the subject of a sentence. I, you, he, she, it we and they are subject pronouns. Object Pronoun -Use and object pronoun after and action verb or after a word such as for, at, of, with, or to. Reflexive Pronoun -Use a reflexive pronoun instead of an object pronoun if the subject of the sentence is doing the action to himself or herself. Myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, themselves, and yourselves are reflexive pronouns.

6. Vocabulary Words

7. Fade (adj) to lose strength or brightness

8. Cautiously (adj.) carefully or safely

9. Crisscrossed (adj.) marked with lines that cross one another

10. Disguised (adj.) changed appearance to look like something else

11. Wisdom (adj.) good judgment in knowing what is right

12. Jealousy (adj.) a feeling of wanting what someone else has

13. Faint (verb) not clear or strong; weak

14. Story Words bountiful: plentiful groves: groups of trees growing near one another warthogs: wild African pigs landscape: the land you can see from one spot baobab: an African tree with a wide trunk that stores water